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Rebel Blood Chapter 21
Aldric's POV “No!” I call out and fly across the lawn just as the wolf sets upon Simone. I heard him just a second too late. A fleeting thought crosses my mind before I reach my mate. 'How the hell did he get in here?' Vesper comes charging past me, kicking the wolf off my bride as he descends. The black wolf yelps and rolls away just as I kneel next to Simone, trying to take in the carnage that he wreaked on her. It all happened so fast that I can't seem to get my head wrapped around it. If it weren't for the gaping, bleeding wounds staring at me, the scent of her rose-water blood, I would convince myself that it is all just a dream. At least he didn't get her neck or throat. Thank God. Her blood spills over my hands and soaks into my clothes, clinging warmly to my skin. “No, no, no,” I whisper and pat her cheek. “Come on now, baby, open your eyes. You cannot die like this. Please look at me.” She coughs and blood bubbles from her mouth in a thick, frothy milkshake. My eyes slid
Rebel Blood Chapter 22
Simone's POVConfused, I look around me. I’m on a beach that I had only ever seen in photos and whenever he felt as if he had to calm me down, Baron would promise that he’d show me the beach one day.I hate beaches. I hate the ocean. It took my mother from me. It’s where I almost died. How Baron could never see that was beyond me.How the hell did I end up here? The last thing I remember is the werewolf jumping me.I walk across the golden strip of sand into the break. I don't feel the sand under my feet, it's like walking on thin air. I can see the spray wafting in from the waves breaking on the shore, but I can't feel the cold water on my face or taste the salt in the air. The warm sun in the sky is cold on my skin.Behind me, there's a sheer hill covered in lush greenery. I can’t see a way up the hill or through the plants growing close to the ground. To the left and right of me there's nothing but the endless beach.I'm stuck here.Sighing, I turn to look at the blue-green ocean.
Rebel Blood Chapter 23
Aldric's POV Simone flies past me and runs blindly in the direction of the exit. Our blood bond is unlike any I’ve ever had before, strong and intense in ways I don't understand. It's ten times stronger than it was before I turned her, and if the both of us aren't careful, it will consume us. I’m not as remorseful as I should be. I’m elated in fact. She’s angry, but she doesn’t hate me, and anger is to be expected. Very few vampires are in a good mood right after they’re reborn. It’s a painful process and it’s not over for her yet. There's a reason we keep our neophytes close for the first ten, sometimes more, years of their lives. They're completely out of control. I catch up with her at the entrance of the cave. She’s standing in the opening staring straight down. My stomach lurches before I remember that she’s a vampire now, and while the fall will probably liquefy all her internal organs and break every bone in her body, she won’t die. She’ll just wish for death before she’s don
Rebel Blood Chapter 24
Simone's POV The door behind me opens and I whirl around, ready to launch more insults in Aldric’s direction, but it’s Vesper who darkens the doorway. “What do you want?” I spit at him. I don’t know why I’m so fucking angry. I could have stayed on the beach. I could have allowed death to take me, maybe to a better place than that Godforsaken place, but I went with Aldric instead. Yet, I can't stop the anger, and I want to rage at him because he did this to me. “Now, now, Poppet,” Vesper says in a calm, measured tone. “We’ll have none of that. Aldric needs to feed and he really needs to wash, because he stinks of your blood.” “My blood doesn’t stink.” “No,” Vesper agrees, and sits on the edge of my overturned bed. “But it will attract wildlife.” I don’t know what to do with my rage. I want to scream and fight and break things, but I’ve basically destroyed the room and I’m too afraid to leave. I’m too afraid that I’ll hurt someone. “You are very angry,” Vesper states as a matter o
Rebel Blood Chapter 25
Aldric's POV “Are you sorry you made me?” Simone asks. I slowly shake my head from side to side. “I know you want me to be, but I’m really not.” She pulls her knees up to her chest and folds her arms around her ankles. “Did you fight it? The change?” “Yes,” I reply. “For a long, long time.” “But you didn’t get the blood madness thingy?” I laugh softly. “No. It doesn’t happen to everyone who resists the change.” “So we don’t know how I’ll turn out?” I shake my head at her again and get to my feet. “I want to find out who sent that werewolf. Do you want to come with me?” “What?” she asks surprised. “I’m not supposed to stay locked up in my room?” “You can, if you want, but I thought you’d like to get some answers.” “You trust me?” Smiling at her, I nod. “As long as I can keep an eye on you.” “When Baron made new vampires, he sequestered them for six months.” “How many vampires did he make while you were there?” She shrugs. “Is it important?” “Yes. He’s a powerful vampire
Rebel Blood Chapter 26
Aldric's POVI don’t need much. I came here with the clothes on my back. Simone has even less. All we need is the potion and Vesper’s instructions and we can be on our way.Vesper doesn’t allow anyone to go into his alchemy room, so we wait for him in the kitchen, listening as everyone rushes around to get their things packed.I take up position by the door, placing myself between Simone and any possible danger, while she sits on the kitchen table with her legs tucked in under her rump. She’s so incredibly vulnerable right now, and she doesn’t even know.“I am going to miss this place,” my young bride says.A week ago, she told me that she wanted to leave here. Maybe I just asked her at the wrong time, but it’s all moot now. We have to go anyway. “We’ll be able to come back. Eventually, Baron will lose interest in Vesper.”“Why does Baron care about your brother so much anyway?”“He thinks Vesper wants to overthrow him.”“Does he?”“Oh yeah,” I say with a little laugh. “But he doesn’t
Rebel Blood Chapter 27
Simone's POVMy eyes snap open and I jerk upright. Blinking rapidly, I try to figure out where I am.A bedroom of some kind. The room is big, twice the size of the one I had at Baron’s mansion, but the windows are boarded shut. The rustic old furniture is well kept, and the bed I’m lying on is soft and luxurious. The linen is like a feather, softly draping over me. I swallow against the drought in my throat and hold a palm to my steadily pounding head.On the far side of the room, a door opens and Aldric steps inside. “Oh,” he says, sounding surprised. “You’re awake already.”“Yes,” I croak through dry and cracked lips. “I don’t feel great though.”He darts across the room and hands me a blood bag. My hands are shaking so much that I can’t tear it open. “Tomorrow morning you should feed before you rest for the day,” Aldric says as he takes the bag from me and opens it. "It helps."My stomach churns when I see the blood, but it smells fantastic. I suck the tube into my mouth and sigh
Rebel Blood Chapter 28
Simone's POV “You should be okay to leave the room now,” Aldric says ten minutes later. “Are you sure?” “Yes, you have yourself under control, and you are satiated…but just in case, we’ll bring blood with us.” After what happened, I don’t really want to leave. I don’t trust myself. “What if I…lose it again?” “I’ll be right by your side. I won’t let anything happen to you.” “It’s not me I’m worried about.” Aldric gives me a lopsided little grin. “When I was a neophyte, Darrick forced me to face my bloodlust. It’s the best and fastest way to learn how to control it.” “The other neophytes don’t,” I say. “Victoria told me they killed a whole camp.” Aldric grimaces. “Because their creators make them and leave them to their own devices.” “Why?” “I don’t know. Most of them don’t even know who made them.” “Don’t they meet their makers in the afterlife like you and I did?” Aldric grabs his ankles and leans forward. “We only do it that way when we take brides.” “Then…how did you kn
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