“Henry says it can be better.”
“I don’t care what Henry says.”
“It won’t be settling down and raising a family like you wanted.”
He slid off the counter. “Don’t tell me what I wanted. I wanted you.”
She opened her arms, her teeth a very white invitation against the curve of her mouth.
He met her halfway.
They hit the floor together.
Two hours and twenty-three minutes later, Vicki pillowed her head on his shoulder and stared up at the kitchen ceiling. She’d thought that over the last fourteen months she’d come to terms with what she’d become—vampire, child of darkness, nightwalker—but she hadn’t, not really, not until her teeth had met through a fold of Mike Celluci’s skin and she’d drawn his life back into hers. She licked at a drop of sweat and could feel his breath, warm against the top of her head, his scent wrapped around her.
“What’re you thinking of?” he asked sleepily.
Vampire. Child of Darkness. Nightwalker.
Reaching up, she brushed the curl of hair back off his forehead and smiled. “I was just thinking about the next four hundred and fifty years.”
TANYA HUFF
SMOKE AND SHADOWS
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
SMOKE AND ASHES
BLOOD PRICE
BLOOD TRAIL
BLOOD LINES
BLOOD PACT
BLOOD DEBT
THE ENCHANTMENT EMPORIUM
SING THE FOUR QUARTERS I FIFTH QUARTER
NO QUARTER
THE QUARTERED SEA
The Keepers Chronicles
SUMMON THE KEEPER
THE SECOND SUMMONING
LONG HOT SUMMONING
OF DARKNESS, LIGHT AND FIRE
WIZARD OF THE GROVE omnibus
CHILD OF THE GROVE I THE LAST WIZARD
A CONFEDERATION OF VALOR omnibus:
VALOR’S CHOICE I THE BETTER PART OF VALOR
THE HEART OF VALOR
VALOR’S TRIAL
And watch for Torin Kerr’s latest adventure, coming
September 2010!