Time Without End (The Black Rose Chronicles)
“Like many vampires, he preferred the century of his mortal birth and, having that option, passed much of his time there.“Valerian,” the doctor greeted me, with more resignation than affection, when I appeared at his elbow. He was an ideal partner for Maeve, though like a great many doctors he tended to be taciturn to the point of abruptness. He was quiet and steady, providing a perfect counterbalance to her more spectacular personality. Though I had transformed Holbrook from mortal to fiend myself, and was thus, in a manner of speaking, his sire, and although it had been I, and no one else, who had taught him the rudiments of navigating the world of the supernatural, there was, as the saying goes, no love lost between us.For it was I who made Maeve a vampire, albeit long before he knew her, and he was jealous of that undeniable intimacy.I stood with my hands clasped behind my back, peering over Calder’s shoulder at the concoction bubbling in a bottle heated over a small brazier. “Have... you discovered the cure for what ails us?”MoreLess
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