The Rise (The Alexa Montgomery Saga)
“Her black eyes were wide and shiny, her red lips down-turned, the color of fresh blood, striking against her pale skin and flawless face, shocks of red hair blowing out behind her. The white dress she wore was stained with blood, not hers, of course, but human blood from our last hunt. The smell of it carried to me on the cold wind, making my stomach rumble its emptiness. I smiled at her now and reached up to stroked Carianna’s face with the backs of my fingers. Her skin was like cold marble, a...nd mine slid over it like drops of salt water. I sighed and dropped my hand, looking out over the land beneath me. I was sitting on the edge of the mountain’s cliff, my legs dangling over the nothingness. The thrum of souls beyond calling out to me, and yet I didn’t want to go. There was nothing there that I wanted. “Do not fear for me,” I told her. “The sun will not harm me. I must go.” And will you come back? “I don’t know.” We sat in silence for a long while. Above us the night sky was dotted with thousands of stars.MoreLess
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