Blood Shadow by Aurora Kryan (digital e reader .TXT) 📕

air but all I could sense was blood, fresh blood. My ear flattened against my head, lips pulling back over my teeth in a defensive growl.

“Easy Alice, it’s just me.”

My ears flicked forward again, growl cutting off as his voice echoed around the room. Taking one step forward Roan let the moonlight bathe over his face. In the pale star light he looked dead, skin pale as snow stretched over his face. Maybe it was the crimson glow hinting around his eyes that made him look so pale, or maybe he was just a ghost. Smiling Roan showed me his fangs, thin and needle like under his lips.

Stepping closer I sat down next to the bars of the cage. There was something in his hands, it smelled of blood and meat. To my wolf it was intoxicating, but to me it was frightening. The last time I smelled blood like this Max had ripped out my baby sitter’s heart. Did Roan come to show me her heart, or was it my mothers? Fear prickled down my spine as he held his hand open, letting the bloodied object rest in his open palm for me to see.

My eyes fell from his face to his hand. At first I wasn’t sure what he was holding but then piece by piece I put the puzzle of flesh clumps together. It was a hand, or rather three fingers of a hand. One of the fingers twitched, reaching out towards me. Tensing I stepped away from the bars. I wasn’t sure what unnerved me the most, the fingers twitching in Roans hand, or my wolf craving a taste of the meat.

“Max.” My eyes rose from the twitching clumps. “He disobeyed Payton, this is his price. Alice its ok I’m not here to hurt you.”

The trembling in my shoulders lessened but my eyes couldn’t stop staring at the blood and meat. Closing his hand Roan dropped the fingers, blood running down his palms like a dripping faucet. I watched the grotesque things fall, the wet plopping sounds making me want to hurl. Something cold touched my nose, the pressure gentle and reassuring somehow.

“Alice.” Using his body to block the sight of the mangled hand Roan crouched in front of me. “Look at me Alice.”

I did. Fingers gliding along my jaw line Roan kept his gaze blank and calm. I let him run his hand over my ears, that unearthly cold flowing from his body into my fur. Hand gliding from my head to my neck he repeated the motion five more times before withdrawing from the cage. I felt a sense of calm wash over me. A smile played on his lips when I sat down abruptly at the cage door.

I huffed at his proud face, clearly he liked the fact that he could pet me. Eyes trained on each other I saw him stiffen as he sat down on the hard floor. I stayed seated while he crossed his legs and dropped his hands in his lap. This is new

. Normally after feeding me he would leave, but now he was staying.

“Do you know what I am Alice?”

I blinked, surprised by his question. Honestly I had no idea what he was. He wasn’t human, he had the features to prove that. Fangs like needles snapped in and out of his mouth like a snakes. Cold lifelessly pale skin stretched over his face and arms like a corpse. But by far the most inhuman thing was his eyes. The scent of blood that hung around him was always strongest when his eyes were red. And at its weakest his eyes were dark brown, normal in a way.

As I stared at the man sitting across from me I recalled the time my uncle Hennery visited. He was a wolf too, a werewolf he said. Looking at Roan now I couldn’t see anything that would make me think he was a wolf. He radiated blood, death, and cold where my uncle was nothing but warmth, love, and energy. Clearly he wasn’t a werewolf either. I was at a loose.

Staring at me Roan waited, sections of his body going still little by little. By the time I had organized my thoughts he was motionless, a marble statue staring at me, waiting for me to answer. Finally I shook my head, a yawn escaping before I could stop it. I didn’t know what he was. I didn’t think I wanted to know what he was. A smile broke the illusion, making the rest of him radiate with life that had leek from him earlier.

“Rest my pup, your questions will be answered next time you wake.”

He stood effortlessly, like someone had pulled him up with a set of strings. Nodding his approval of my shock he left, disappearing into the shadows. Another yawn overpowered me, sleep dragging me down till I couldn’t think clearly. I blinked at the burning in my eyes. Why ask me such a question then leave without answering it?

I snorted. He said next time I woke up I would have answers. I hopped he was right. Pacing back to the bed I dropped into an exhausted sleep. My eyes closed but my ears continued to flick around, listening for any sign of life. There was someone out there watching me, I could feel it, and they smelled like blood and axe.

Note

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Thank you for reading Blood Shadow. It is a work in progress so add me as a friend and I will send out updates as I go. Hopefully this will be an "add a chapter a day" or a week deal until it is finished. Please heart if you feel the story worthy so far.

- Verbayne


~~~~ New Note ~~~~

My flash drive took a dive last week. I was very unhappy to say the least. But after letting it rest for a couple days it decided to be good and let me write again, lol.

I added one chapter this time around, mom hasn't edited anything passed chapter one so there are probably a million issues. Bare with them please, my grammar and what not have never, ever, been my strong suit.

If you are reading this story for the second time, in other words having read the old version first, you will have noticed I changed a couple things and added a lot of extra snid bits. Her memories are new, just something to give her a background and life. And the sun flower, use to be birds just flying around outside. I prefer the sunflower, it means something to her.

And as always add me as a friend for updates ;D

- Verbayne


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Two chapters in one day woho

-verbayne

Imprint

Text: Ideas and characters are original please do not steal
Images: Cover from Google
Editing: My loving mother LeeAnn
Publication Date: 09-15-2012

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