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

/> “What about Sam and Joshua and Kahn?”
“Why don’t you come inside and sit down? I’ll call Sam and ask him to come up here with Kahn.”
“No!” Tristan said as I moved back to let him in. I gave him a funny look and he smiled. “I just want to talk to you for a bit. How’s your blood lust?”
“Getting better but I still can’t resist it. Why?”
“Because my boss wants me to do this.” He pushed me into my room and up against the wall. He cut his neck and lowered it down to my mouth. As I said to him, I couldn’t resist it. I bit into his neck and sucked on his neck.
Eventually, he pushed me off of his neck and healed the bite. I looked up at him and smacked him straight across his face with every last bit of strength I had and made his mark bleed.
“What the hell did you do that for?” I nearly shouted at him.
“I did it because I was told too.” He said and then vanished into thin air. The door slammed and I sunk down on the floor again and passed out
“Lucy. Wake up Lucy.”
“I’m awake. God, when I opened my eyes I was awake Sam.”
“Sorry, I didn’t see that. What’s up with you anyway?”
“Nothing, I’m fine. Could you help me up, I’ve got to feed everyone on the block.”
“Yes, The Head told me about that but first, what happened to you? You feel surprised then pleasure then anger then nothing. I couldn’t get away from The Head especially when I told him what was going on with you. You’ve been out cold for about four hours.”
“Nothing has happened Sam. Maybe it was one of your other people. Speaking of, I want to go see Angela after I’ve fed everyone and somewhere else but you don’t need to come with me for that.” Sam helped me up and held me around my waist. He sniffed the air and then licked my vein on my neck.
“You’ve drunk someone else’s blood. Don’t try and deny it because I can taste it.” He said closing my mouth and pointing at my neck.
“So what if I have?” I said back irritably.
“I care whether you have. Whose blood was it because Eric was with me the whole time so it can’t be him?”
“Tristan’s but it wasn’t my fault. Now if you don’t mind, I need to feed twenty six people.” Sam let me go but followed me out of my room to find Tristan in the hallway. Sam came in front of me and I sighed. “Sam, I can take care of myself you know.” Sam moved next to me but looked ready to fight. “What do you want Tristan?”
“Nothing in particular. Just came to visit my girlfriend.” We both gaped at him as he knocked on Aaliyah’s door and she came out and smiled a smile I’d never seen her wear before. Tristan kissed her on her cheek and took her hand. Sam took my hand and placed it palm up. He cut something into it and made it into a fist. Aaliyah came straight to me and followed me into my room.
“What the hell are you playing at Aaliyah?” I said.
“I’m having a boyfriend. Is there a problem with that or something?” Aaliyah said back. I was about to say something but Sam cut in.
“No, there is no problem. Just be careful with him.” he said. I stared at him but he shook his head while Aaliyah left my room, closing the door silently behind her. Sam looked at me with sad eyes then turned away from me. “Go and punch it off.” He said to me and opened the door. I followed him out of it and all the way down to survival. I did as Sam said and got out my gloves and my boxing gear and punched off anger.
By the time I was finished, I had three broken fingers and two dislocated. I put them back into place and bandaged them up in the changing rooms so Sam couldn’t see them and try and give me blood. When I was ready I sat down and listened into Aaliyah’s thoughts.
How dare she tell me what to do with my own life? She may be my mentor and my turner but she can’t tell me what to do with my life. I can have a boyfriend if I want to. She can’t really talk, getting married at nineteen and with a kid.
Tristan stopped me thinking by kissing me softly on my mouth. He smiled at me with him warm and comfortable smile. I smiled back at him and let him kiss me again. This time, the kiss was deep and full of emotion. He moved to my neck and started gently biting it. I pulled him to me and he smiled into my neck.
Pain filled me as Tristan bit deep into my neck and started sucking my blood out. I could feel myself being drained and dying slowly. I started panicking and tried to scream but I couldn’t find the breath. I started collapsing to the floor and Tristan actually helped me to the floor.
In that moment, I realised who Tristan was and I saw anger and hatred in his eyes. I realised that he was going to drain me dry.
By this time, I was on the floor with Tristan on top of me with him sucking my blood. I tried once more unsuccessfully to get him off of me and then just laid back and close my eyes and accept death.
Two minutes later after I could feel my last blood being sucked out of my system and Tristan finally stopped. I felt myself being picked up then put back on the floor. I lolled my head to one side and fell out of consciousness and probably to my death.
I stood up and Sam came in. He took one look at my hands, sighed then looked at me. “Aaliyah is in lying in the hall way unconscious.” He said to me then took my hand and pulled me out of the changing rooms while what he had said sunk in.
When we got to my block, Aaliyah was lying up against the wall with her head leaning to one side exposing the bite marks on her neck, dripping into her collar of her shirt. I stopped for a second but Sam pulled me along to her. Before I could get to her though, I had to stop again and look at my wrist. It was burning like someone had put some silver on it and it felt like it was burning through my flesh and muscles.
Sam was looking curiously between me and Aaliyah and suddenly his eyes lit up. He went to Aaliyah and checked for a pulse on her neck. When he found nothing, he got out his phone and called The Head. He told him about what was happening and asked for someone to come down.
About two minutes after Sam had finished talking on the phone; a man came round the corner and came straight over to us. He took one look at Aaliyah and then turned to me. “Read this spell and say the time you last saw her alive.” He said to me, giving me a piece of paper.
I did as he said and said the spell and the time before I went down to survival. Another version of Aaliyah appeared beside me. I jumped but the guy snapped at me to concentrate so I ignored her and concentrated on the words in my mind. She was having a silent fight with some invisible person and was holding onto a non-existent hand and when she walked through me and into her room, Sam and the man went in with her and I heard Sam gasp.
I couldn’t concentrate any longer and I rushed into Sam and the man staring at the sofa covered in blood and pools of blood on the carpet leading to the door. I smelled the blood and took Sam’s hand and squeezed so I wouldn’t go and lick the blood off the floor.
“It was Tristan. He came in here and sucked her almost dry, leaving her to die in here. She dragged herself out there and just died.” Sam said slowly to me like I wouldn’t understand him otherwise. I nodded at him then left the room and back into my room. I collapsed on the floor and started crying into my hands. I looked down at my wrist and saw the bloody ring all around it. I healed it and looked up at Tristan who had just closed the door and locked it.
What amazing green eyes she has and her jet black hair. She is so beautiful. Even crying she is beautiful and I love her.
Shut up Tristan. I shouted at him through my mind. Why did you kill her?
I killed her because I was told to and I’m going to continue killing your people, one by one until...
Until what? Until I fall in love with you? I shouted at him once more and saw him flinch.
Until you kill me. You. Not anyone else; you. First Aaliyah then Brylee then Condoleezza, Pixie, Fae, Peatol, Kyi and Iahtah and if you haven’t killed me by then, then I’ll move onto Ashton and the rest of them until you’ll have no one. Kill me now and then it will be over.
I stood up in front of him and I started to raise my hands and I closed my eyes. Even before I’d started the spell I knew I was too weak to do that much damage to him. I started muttering the spell anyway and opened my eyes to see Tristan grimacing in pain though not for longer than a few seconds.
I fell to the floor breathing heavily. Tristan walked over to me and smiled at me. He kissed my neck and I shivered at his cold lips. I prepare myself for what comes too soon and as Tristan bites, I release a cry of pain. He ignores it and then carries on sucking me dry.
It felt like hours had passed but I knew it was only a few minutes when Tristan abruptly stopped and pulled away. He touched his fingers to my bitten neck and with my blood on his fingers he left me here to die.
I felt myself slip away and I didn’t know whether I would slip into unconsciousness or whether I would slip out of this realm and join my family.
Chapter Eight

It was like I had been detached from my body and I was looking down upon myself.
My head was being moved into someone’s lap.
A tear fell onto my face and the someone went still.
Magic swirled around me and we landed in a new place.
Someone was screaming my name and I heard a struggle in the background.
A new person took