Midnight Enchantment (Touched by Midnight - Book 4)
The Excerpt
A revenant.
It explained everything. With that certainty came the relief that she wasn’t going mad. She had seen with her own eyes the proof of his dark existence.
Her husband was a vampire.
She’d been raised to believe such things were possible. They were part of her hidden heritage, but she’d always thought of them as stories, folklore . . . until now.
Now the truth had placed a ring upon her finger and called her ‘wife.’
But did having a new name to give him change what she already knew about her husband?
Did it change the fact that she was dangerously close to falling in love with him?
( . . . and a “bite” more . . .)
He woke as he always did, from drifting nothingness to complete awareness with the last dying ray of the sun. Century after century, it was always the same, the first razor-sharp roar of thirst threading through his withered veins, the surge of dynamic energy, and the sense of sameness, that the moment replayed over and over to an eternity. But on this night, he woke to newness, to uncertainty, and for the first time, to anticipation.
Would she still be there beneath his roof? His bold, combative beauty. Or would the truth have driven her away in understandable horror? He was simply curious, he told himself, not that what one silly mortal did mattered to him in the least,
But oh, how quiet the huge house would be without her in it. From comfortable home back to mausoleum again.
It wasn’t as if he would miss her.
He doesn't sound so sure about his assuredness.
ReplyDeleteGerard is a favorite of mine. He started out as the antagonist I couldn't resist. I love this series!
ReplyDeletequite a set up there. intriguing.
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