Blood Dripping Fingertips by Meghan Escott (read ebook pdf .txt) 📕

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We got under the sheets and we got each other undressed. I was still a virgin and so was he. This was completely new to both of us and neither of us knew what to expect. He started to kiss me again and explore my body again. That’s when there was a loud knock on the front door. We stopped momentarily and waited to hear who it was.
It was Sam.
“Shit.” I said to myself. “Tom. Get dressed. He wants to talk to me and I am not going to talk to him like this. We can finish this later. Please Tom.” I said to him quickly and quietly scrambling out of the bed and shoving my clothes on.
I had just finished shoving my clothes on when there was a knock on my bedroom door. I looked around, finding Tom, seeing that he was fully dressed and sat on my bed, looking like nothing had just happened. I walked over to the door and opened it. Not to my surprise, Sam was standing there next to my mother looking slightly depressed and angry.
“Could you step outside for a moment please Lucy?” Sam said to me in calm and collected voice. He didn’t look at me; he just looked at the floor and at his shoes.
“Sure. Did you want to go to another room rather than the hallway?” I said to him in my own calm voice although I was worried and intrigued inside. He didn’t answer; he just nodded so I led him through to the spare bedroom two doors down from my bedroom.
“What did you want Sam?” I said in the calmest voice I could muster.
“I just wanted to let you know that now that I have had your blood and you have had mine, I can feel your pleasure and gratefulness as well as your pain and disturbance. I just wanted you to know this because I could feel everything you just felt with Tom and I know that wasn’t love. Kiss me and find out what love is.” As he was saying this, he gazed up into my eyes with the want and longing in them.
I just wanted to look into those eyes forever and ever and never look away. I wanted to fall into the deep depth of blue and sparkle like they did in the light. I wanted to touch his smooth skin and kiss his intricate design on his cheek. I wanted to have more of his blood and drown in the cool, lush goodness.
“That’s what love is. What you’re thinking. That’s what love is Lucy.” He said still staring into my eyes and me staring into his. He then walked over to me and kissed my mark on my cheek. He then pulled me into an embrace and started kissing each point of my mark. He then worked his way up to my ear and started nibbling on my ear lobe.
You sure you still love Tom now?
He thought this while he was working his way down from ear lobe back to my cheek and then down to the base of my neck. He did little teasing nibbles on my neck just like he had on my ear lobe. No, I thought. No I don’t think I love Tom any more
But do you love me Lucy?
I pulled back from him at that.
I don’t know. This is all new to me. Me being a telepathic, me being a vampire. I don’t know Sam. At least let me get to this new school that I have to go to before I get involved in something like this.
As soon as I had finished thinking that, he glanced back up at my eyes and nodded one small nod. “Are you going back to this school?” He nodded. “Can I follow you back there? I have no idea where I am going.” He nodded again. “I’m just going to say goodbye to Tom then and I’ll be back.” He nodded again. My thoughts had wounded him and I needed to sort this mess out. But first I needed to actually get to this vamp school.
As I walked back into my room Tom got up and moved over to me. “I have to leave now Tom. Sam is going to guide me to my school. Thank you for everything you have done over the past couple of days.” I said to him in my kindest voice ever. He nodded and pulled me into a strong embrace. “We are going to finish what we started aren’t we?” he whispered so quietly I had to strain my hearing to hear him. “Definitely. I will call you and text you and arrange sometime for me to come and visit you.” I said back to him with confidence in my voice and relaxed into his arms.
After a few seconds of hugging, I pulled back from Tom. I walked over to the window and closed it and locked it. I then walked out of my room and into the one two doors down from mine. As I walked in Sam stood and smiled at me. After a couple of seconds of smiling at each other, I walked out of the room and Sam followed me. Down the stairs and out the front door. We walked to our separate cars and got in.
As Sam reversed out of the drive a realisation hit me. I would be starting a new life at a new school with a new man and a new mind.


Chapter Five

As I arrived at my new school I noted the castle like buildings and the old and decrepit statues. I got out of my mum’s bright red car after parking where Sam had instructed me through his mind. I was parked next to a black car that had a personalised number plate. I opened the boot of the car and started getting my suitcase out when someone came up behind me and took it out of my hands. When I looked around it was Sam. He had taken the case out of the boot of the car and was talking in to a set of doors. He pressed some buttons, placed the case in a little, compact place then closed the door and then my bag zoomed off out of sight.
“You will be staying in a room on my block because I am your mentor. I must warn you before we go up to your room that I haven’t taken on a student as young as yourself for a long time. I usually take on more experienced vampires so everyone you meet in my block will be much older than both of us. However they will give you respect since you are my newest and they will include you in their circles and gossip.”
“Thank you for the warning Sam.”
After that we headed up to a new set of doors. Sam pressed a code which I didn’t quite catch and the doors opened. Sam stepped in then beckoned me to stand in front of him. The space was very confined so I had to come very close to him. He seemed to enjoy this, I could tell through his mind. He wrapped his arms around my shoulders and joined his hands together in front of me. And for that moment, I forgot where I was and what was going on around me. I just felt truly relaxed and loved in Sam’s arms.
At that moment my mind started to have a battle with itself.
I think I love Sam. But what about Tom? He loves me. But I don’t love him and Sam loves me. You’ve been with him for three years. But we weren’t intimate with each other until I got turned and blood came into the matter. But Sam didn’t find you until he turned you.
I couldn’t. Sam butted in. I had forgotten he could hear everything I was thinking and talk to me through the mind. Vampires aren’t allowed to date humans. I’ve been following you for years, watching you go in and out of love, watching you get hit by your mother and your dad making excuses for her and not telling you the proper reason. I know more about you then Tom could ever know. You’ve never had sex either and tonight was the first time you’ve ever been close like tonight was the first time I have ever been close. All this time he had his arms around me in a comforting grip but sturdy enough to catch me if I decided to faint. You love me you just don’t know it yet. The reason that I turned you was not because I was told to; it was because I choose to. I gained the trust of your parents and I gained their permission when you were very young. I also have the gift of seeing the future and I saw the moment you admit you love me. Once I saw that moment, I went searching for you. I near enough had looked into the future of all the children in this area when I found you. When you were a baby I came to your house and saw the same future as mine when I looked into your future. The same day I convinced your mother to act out of line whenever you were alone and to prepare for the pain so it would be as easy as possible for me to harm you. I gave your mother and father a story to tell you so you would not suspect a thing of me when I came to turn you. I visited your house the night before I turned you to tell your mother and father. They gave subtle hints that morning though I specifically told them to keep you at your home so I could turn you with no witnesses. I am so sorry of the pain I have conflicted onto you and I understand if you do not want to talk to me for a while.
All that time, we had been in the lift. Sam with his arms around me and me with my hands wrapped around his back. While he was talking to me through his mind, he had moved me into a hug and started stroking my long black hair. When the lift came to a halt, the doors opened and we pulled away from each other and walked out into a peach hallway.
Sam lead me to a door which had a piece of paper nailed to the front. Nothing was written on it unlike the twenty other doors in the block. They all had writing on their paper nailed to the door. All had names on them with decorations around them and they were all written in the same neat handwriting. Sam opened the door for me and stood back to let me enter.
My suitcase was placed just inside the door on the left.