The Rock's of Beauty by Meghan Escott (books for new readers TXT) 📕

to you and stops you.” I said to Sam willing him to trust me and do what I said. I then turned to my friends who were all looking at me with wary eyes. “Go and find Tristan. Now!” My voice was filled with hatred and disgust as I said Tristan’s name. I turned back to Sam. “Bite me. Do it now Sam.”
He didn’t waste any time lingering or thinking. He did what I had told him to do and he bit me. I turned under him to see Sophie run to the door. She looked back and then ran out to find Tristan. He started sucking on the bite he had made and moaned again as my blood went into him and I realised it had been months since Sam had drunk my blood. I started to moan alongside him and he started moving against me again. I moaned louder and harder as he sucked more and more of my blood.
Minutes after Sam had started sucking on me, Tristan burst through the door and Sam obviously remembered his instructions. I opened my eyes to see his eyes turn from his normal colour to a deep blood red and he stopped sucking to turn and give Tristan a menacing snarl. Tristan gave a snarl back to Sam who lowered his mouth to my neck again.
Suddenly Sam was pulled off of me and I followed through with my plan and slumped to the floor supposedly unconscious and closed my eyes. I could hear a fight going on and then a loud thump as Sam hit the floor also supposedly unconscious. I heard footsteps and then Tristan was lying next to me inhaling the sweet smell of my blood still leaking from the bite in my neck.
“I love you Lucy,” Tristan started to whisper in my ear. “I really do. The moment I met you I fell in love with you but I couldn’t say because I was in fear of rejection from you which I was sure of. You are so beautiful and I’m sorry that I had to do this but I was made to but my boss. I couldn’t let him kill you honey. I just couldn’t let you be killed.” I let a tear roll down my cheek and drip onto the floor.
I could hear Sam struggling against my friends who I’d told to surround him and protect him for me and from me. Tristan lifted his head from my ear and he looked at Sam. Sam shouted for me and he started crying and willing me to open my eyes. Tristan laughed and lowered his head back to my neck and kissed the bite.
I breathed out quietly and sat up while Tristan’s back was turned. I murmured a spell while I still had the energy. Tristan started to turn back towards me but I continued with the spell and he suddenly stopped half way round. I smiled at Sam and winked at him.
“Who sent you to do this?” I spat at him, holding him down.
“I can’t tell you.” Tristan whispered back and he got a slap across his face and started to bleed. He cried out and I wasn’t the only person in the room who smiled at the sound.
“Tell us. You’ve got nowhere to hide.” Sam shouted to Tristan.
“It was The Head. He told me to kill all of Lucy’s turned and eventually kill Lucy. I’m sorry but what The Head wants The Head gets.”Tristan said crying steadily.
“Go to hell Tristan.”
I bent down and kissed Tristan’s neck as he had done to all of his victims. I smiled menacingly at him and I winked at Sam. Sam rushed over to me as I bit Tristan’s neck and started sucking the blood out of Tristan’s body. My eyes were blood red and Sam sat down next to me and held my hand and stroked my hair. I smiled at Sam into Tristan’s neck and continued sucking.
Only I know how to get her tattoos back but she doesn’t know that. If she kills me, she will never have her tattoos back.
“Stop. Stop Lucy. He knows how to get your tattoos back.” Sam said into my ear and I pulled back. “Click your fingers and make them come back Tristan.”
He clicked his fingers and I screamed and burst into flames and after seconds I was transported.
Chapter Eleven

The streets were dark with only the street lamps on illuminating the few faces walking by. I hid in the shadows and when the first boy walked past me I pounced on him. I dragged him into the shadows with me and I magically sealed his lips so he couldn’t scream and I bit him, hard, on his neck where I sucked all of his lovely blood from him. I could feel my eyes turning blood red and I saw the fear in his eyes. I smiled and continued to suck his life blood out of his neck.
The blood tasted ridiculously hot and delicious and was nothing like the normal vampire blood that I was used to at school. Human blood was better and tastier and it burnt the back of my neck as I swallowed greedily. I stopped just short of killing the human though it was extremely hard to refrain from killing him.
I healed the bite I had made in the human boys neck and looked into his wallet for an address and when I found one, I transported there and into his bedroom where I lay him on his bed and transported out. There was a weirdly familiar pain on my neck which made me stop and slide down the nearest wall while I regained my breath.
While I regained my breath, I felt my phone vibrating against my hip. I reached into my pocket and read the message from Sam.
Lucy, Come back to school darling : ) I know how to get you’re tattoos back, just come back to school honey xxx
I shut my phone so hard I nearly smashed it into pieces. I shoved it back into my pocket and got up and steadied myself on the wall. I walked for miles and miles, away from school and away from anything I ever used to be. I felt tear leak from my eye and fall down my cheek. I wiped it away angrily and screamed in anger to the night sky.
Lights switched on in bedrooms all around me and curtains fluttered. I didn't bother to move so I just collapsed in the middle of the road. No one would bother to come outside in the cold for a teenage girl lying in the middle of the road.
“Are you okay honey?” An old woman said from behind me. I jumped up and turned to face her. “Why don't you come inside so you can get cleaned up?” she asked me kindly. I shook my head and she leaned in close to me and wiped some blood from my mouth. “I know what you are and I want you to help me.”
“Okay.” I said nervously and followed her into her little cottage on the corner of the street. I saw on the way that all the curtains shut and the lights turned off randomly.
The old woman led me into her living room which had only two one seater recliner chairs that told me that she didn't have any visitors. Ever. I smiled at her gently when she turned to face me and she smiled back at me. “How do you know what I am?” I asked her kind of fiercely.
“I am part of a secret organisation that tracks and hunts people of your nature. I used to be the founder of it but now I can see the error of my ways. I would like you to help me in convincing the rest of them that vampires are al-right.”
“Why would you want to do that? Vampire are blood thirsty and evil creatures.”
“My son and my great grandson are both vampire and they go to the local school.”
“Where is the local school? I need to visit.”
“A few miles away from here.”
“Shit. That's my school. What's your great grandson's name, I may know him.”
“Eric.”
At the sound of his name I froze where I had been pacing up and down the living room avoiding the chairs. “So you know him.” She said evaluating my pregnant pause. I nodded my head and sunk into the nearest recliner. “Is he okay?? How's my little boy??”
“Why don't you come back with me and you can see them?” I asked her already making a plan to transport her straight into The Heads office instead of the painful place that I would have to return to.
“Yes. That would be good but you cannot return so soon. You must feed and rest and then help me convince my club but you got to be willing to give up a lot for me.” The woman said – I still didn't know her name – sitting down on the opposite recliner.
“Your great grandson saved my life loads of times. I can't repay him or your son directly but I can pay the debt by helping you.” I sighed wondering what the hell I was doing. “What is it you need me to do?”
I woke up in Ethyl’s spare bedroom the next morning when her alarm starting screaming and shouting at her just next door. I groaned and swung my legs out of bed. I stood up then fell on the floor. I sighed and propped myself up against the wall. I slowly started to stand when Ethyl walked into the room and tutted at me. The night before, I had refused to feed and she knew that I had to feed soon otherwise my cover would be blown.
“Feed from me Lucy. I can say it was a vampire attack and you saved me from her. You'll be inducted straight away.” She said to me just like she had said the evening before. I sighed deeply and went over to her beckoning neck. I leaned into her wrinkled neck and started to feel guilty about the situation. “Just bite me.” she said so I did. I bit softly into her flesh and only sucked out what I needed to make it through the day and then pulled away. I rubbed my fingers over her neck and healed the bite.
“No. You need more. You may not be able to have blood for a couple days.” Ethyl said when I had healed the bite mark. She grabbed my neck with an unanticipated amount of strength and pulled me down to her neck again. This time she forced me to bite harder and suck more. I sucked what I would need in a week and then pulled away from the satisfied Ethyl who smiled at me. She also slapped my hand away from her when I put my hand near her neck to remove her bite.
“I need it to