The Cursed Teaser #1
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The Cursed Teaser #1
“Leave,” he whispered.
Persistent vampire.
“No.”
“Please, Gabrielle.” This was the
closest he ever got to begging. At least he hadn’t thought to force me out of
the country. Actually, now that I thought about it, he probably had, it just
wasn’t an option. Not when I was a siren who could get him to do just about
anything.
“Quit and go back to the Isle of
Man,” Andre continued. “I won’t let anything happen to you.” Oh, I bet he’d
love me quitting. He’d probably throw a party in my honor the day that
happened.
“Much as I appreciate your offer to
be my sugar daddy, I want to go to school and lead a normal life for as long as
possible,” I said.
“This isn’t a normal life.”
I gave him a look. “You know what I
mean.”
Andre closed his eyes. “If you
don’t leave here, this place might kill you.” He talked as though Romania
itself wanted my blood.
I gave a hollow laugh. “I’m destined
to die in about a year anyway, so what’s the difference?”
Andre thumped his palm against the
steering wheel. Hard. Metal crunched as it bent under the force of his blow. “Damnit
Gabrielle, it makes a difference to me!”
He steered the car to the side of
the road and got out. I pushed open my door and scrambled after him, barely
noticing the light white flakes that drifted down around us. He strode away
from me, his coat flapping in the chill breeze, and I could see how tension
coiled itself in his muscles.
“Why are you so upset?” I yelled at
him. He ignored me, his sinuous form moving further and further away. “This is
my fate, not yours!”
Andre stopped. “No, it’s not,” he
said.
“What?”
Andre turned around, and even
though it was nighttime, even though it was starting to snow, and even though
he was some distance away from me, I could clearly see his grief. “It’s not your fate,” he said. “It’s our fate.”
He began walking back to me. “What do you think happens to me once you die?”
he said. “I’m not going to just get over you.” His voice broke. “It doesn’t
work like that with soulmates.”
My lungs constricted. Of course it
didn’t. On an instinctual level I knew that, but consciously I’d never thought
it through. If I died, part of Andre would die along with me—maybe all of him
if we were indeed physiologically connected.
The thought of hurting this man or
of him simply ceasing to exist, that was just as terrifying as what waited for
me on the other side of death.
Andre stepped up to me and cupped
my face. “If the devil tries to take you again, I don’t know if you’ll come
back to me as a vampire. I don’t know if you’ll come back at all.”
His eyes searched mine, and they
shined in the dim light.
“I’d come back,” I whispered. “For
you, hell couldn’t hold me. I’d come back.”
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