Fawn Lowery, page 18
“Son-of-a-bitch!”
“Such a mouth you have, my sweet.”
She saw Marcus standing by the bed. Her eyes were bleary. Her head ached. Her body felt as though it had been run over by a truck.
“What happened?”
He sat on the side of the bed. He pushed a pillow beneath her head, raising her up a bit. He drew a sharp nail across his wrist, bringing forth blood. He pressed his wrist against her lips. “Drink, Ronna.”
She gazed upward at Marcus as her mouth settled greedily over his vein. She drank, feeling the blood gush into her body and her strength gradually return. She closed her eyes and savored the barrage of new feelings racing through her insides. It felt so right—to drink blood.
“What happened?”
“You died.”
His words brought her upright in the bed, her eyes wide open. “You mean I’m a vampire now?”
“Full fledged.”
“Oh shit!”
Movement at the end of the room grabbed her attention. She blinked bleary eyes at Jarharis and Duella and Chandler. Suddenly she realized she was naked and hurried to pull a blanket over her breasts.
“Why are they here?”
The vampires rose from their seats and came to the bed. They stood at the foot looking at Ronna.
“We’re ready to go with you to the future—now that you are one of us.” Jarharis smiled at her, his eyes washing over her bare arms and shoulders. “You drank from each of us so I suppose that makes us kin.”
She jerked her gaze to Marcus.
Is that his way of saying that I married the whole family?
We are all one family now, my sweet. We will protect each other and console each other—
And fuck each other!
He shook his head. The only one who will fuck you will be me.
So we aren’t going to share everything? She smiled slightly, giving Marcus a wink. For an instant she recalled the hard cock Chandler forced against her crotch after she awakened him.
“How do you feel?”
“Much better.” She stretched her arms above her head, feeling her body renewed in a way she had never experienced. “Will I have to sleep during the day—like you and your brothers?”
Marcus shrugged his shoulders. “That will be for you to find out. You have witch’s powers and now you are a vampire with vampire powers. I can only guess at your abilities.”
This might not be so bad.
She waved one hand and the vampires turned their backs. She quickly rose from the bed and dressed. A series of thoughts zinged through her mind. She was anxious to try out her new powers—just as soon as she got back to the twenty-first century. And, now that she was one of the Morganford vampires, she supposed she had to take the brothers ahead to her time.
She clutched the amulet around her neck and gathered the brothers around her. “I want each of you to promise me that you will stay out of trouble.”
Jarharis grinned and nodded.
Ronna glimpsed the mischievous look in his dark eyes. Like hell he would stay out of trouble. There wouldn’t be a woman safe in all of Brooklyn when that handsome devil arrived.
Duella bowed to her and nodded his head.
She studied him for a second. He was the most serious of the lot. Or at least he hadn’t tried to seduce her yet. But he was a hunk like his brothers. No telling what he would do when he arrived in Brooklyn.
Chandler stared at her, a grin spanning his face.
“You remind me of the Cheshire cat.”
“Who?”
“Never mind. I can tell by the way you grin at me that you are going to be the troublemaker.” She shook her head and smiled. “Marcus, it will be up to you to keep them in line.”
“I’ll do my best, my love.”
She didn’t really know how to go about getting them all ahead in time at once, but she supposed that if they all held hands…
The room spun, a rainbow of colors passed before her eyes, the noise of thunder pierced her ears. She felt the pull of the universe as it opened and drew them into its swirling vortex…
THE END
The Witch, Fawn Lowery
