Blood Burned by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mythology & Folk Tales, Paranormal, Family Life, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Teen & Young Adult, Domestic Life, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Paranormal & Urban, Women's Fiction
Publisher: theEDGEbooks.com
Published: 2011-06-23T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Kalina slept deeply that night. The chaos of the whole evening – from her kiss with Stuart at the prom, to the trauma with Jaegar, to the passion she had experience with Stuart afterwards, had overwhelmed her. Combined with severe blood loss – a loss she had barely even registered until it was almost too late – the events of the preceding twelve hours had combined to drain her emotionally as well as physically. When at last she and Stuart had finished, she fell asleep against him, a sleep so deep that Stuart could not even telepathically connect to her dreams. He pressed her shoulders softly – no answer. He stared at her – the drained, pale white figure before him – and realized what he should have seen before, when his mind was clouded by desire. She had been injured – seriously – by Jaegar's attack; they had both forgotten it in the heat of the moment, but now he could see everywhere the scratches and bite marks Jaegar had made upon her.

Stuart sighed and bit into his wrist, letting a few droplets of his blood trickle out onto Kalina's lips. In her sleep she moaned and sighed, arching her back and neck so that the delicate taste could be sucked down into her neck. He sighed with her pleasure, seeing her give a low, sensual cry – deep in the mind of sleep – as her cuts gradually began to heal, lines and scratches evaporating into a sea of creamy white flesh.

It was easier now, Stuart thought. It had been terrible – in its beauty – being with Kalina, being so close to this exquisite young woman, losing himself in her, and yet unable to bite her, although the smell of her blood – fresh and loose – had filled his nostrils, crowded over his mind and soul and sanity. How he must love her to constantly be with her and yet not be with her. Kalina was like the ladies he swore to love and protect back in the Middle Ages when he was a knight. Yet she was much more, and he couldn’t help falling for her, her smile, her bravery, her fragility, her spirit, her resilience to all the grief she’d experienced, her intelligence, her beauty, and especially her capacity to love generously. She seemed endless in her ability to love others, even monsters like himself and Jaegar. She was Humanity itself.

Not many vampires would have resisted, Stuart knew bitterly. He was one of the few – the lucky few – to retain enough of his humanity to avoid killing her. Enough of his humanity to avoid experiencing the greatest pleasure he could possibly know. But he had gotten to know her, like Aaron had, and he knew he couldn’t just take her.

Kalina looked almost peaceful as she slept, the stress now banished by the power of the vampire blood coursing through her veins. Stuart gazed tenderly at her and began stroking her hair, feeling the delicate strands – like strains of silk – rustle beneath his fingers.

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