she knew what happened, Brandon changed before her eyes. His eyes were now black as pitch and his fangs descended from his gums. The last word she heard from his lips was “Vampire” before he sunk them into her neck. Her mind was now flooded with over a thousand years of victims he fed upon, wars of the past, his mortal life and all that he had suffered. Tears flowed from her eyes once again and she was becoming weaker by the second.
Her heart was fighting as hard as it could to hold onto life, and Brandon’s voice once again filled her head telling her to just let go. Her eyes fluttered in her head and she gave in. Brandon held her tighter to his chest to keep her from falling to the ground. Lillian’s heart beat slowed down to the point of her death, and Brandon ripped a gash in his wrist, brought the bleeding wound to her mouth and told her that she must drink. Lillian grabbed his wrist and did what he had told her to do. Her entire body came alive once again and her senses were soaring. As she drank she couldn’t help but notice how beautiful everything was! It was like she was looking at the world for the very first time and it was alive. Brandon laughed as he read her thoughts and told her that this was the beginning, that there was more to come.
Lillian got her fill of his blood and watched as the wound on his wrist healed before her eyes. Brandon kissed her and they both left the club to an old cemetery that was nearby.
“Lillian I know you want to touch and look at everything and you will have plenty of time for that trust me. But for now you must hunt and I will teach you. After you feed we will rest in my crypt. It is pretty cool and not dingy so no need to worry. Now, ignore all the books that you have read, we love crosses and will not burst into flames if we walk into a church, those are just stories. The sun, starvation, drinking dead blood and having our hearts ripped out is the only way we can be destroyed. I will teach you all that I know. But for now let’s get you fed my love” Brandon said as his arm was wrapped around her waist.
Lillian looked up into the sky once again and smiled at the moon. She knew what had just happened; she knew that she had been given a blessed curse. She knew that she was now a vampire and this made her feel more alive than she had when she was mortal.
A Thirst for Blood
A Young Adult Vampire Romance
Lillian the Vampire Book Two
by Alice Marcs
all rights reserved copyright 2013 by Northern Starlight Young Adult Press
Lillian continued to look up into the night sky as Brandon’s arm was around her waist. As she looked through her new vampire eyes, it seemed everything had a life of its own. The trees were talking, the snow was singing and the cemetery itself was alive! She reached her hand out and touched each and every tomb stone that they walked past. Each object that she touched sent electricity deep inside her new body. It was if when she touched them, she took away some of its life and it was now blended with hers. The smile on her face never went away, it only got bigger. Brandon watched as she looked at and touched everything. He knew that she could get lost in an object if she stared at it too long, just as all fledglings can and have done in the past.
“Lillian, you can’t get so caught up in all of this stuff. If you stare too long you will get so captivated that you will stare until the sun comes up. I have seen it many times. The only thing that you need to focus on is the hunger that is building inside of you. I can sense it, Lillian look at me.”
“Brandon, everything is alive! I can hear the entire world talking to me! I can’t ignore them!”
“Lillian you have too. Look at me. Time for you to feed and after you feed we can go back to the club. Just wait until you hear the music!”
“What is the smell? It smells like...”
“That is blood, my sweet. On nights like this people come out here on every full moon. They think