Bound to Remember, a Paranormal Romance (Book 1 of the Spellbound Series) by Lola James Read Free Book Online Page A

confused as I felt.
     
    “ People who drink human blood are sanguinarians!”
     
    “ I know that, but what I am is far worse than that.” The look of shame on his face made him look remorseful but I feared him nonetheless.
     
    “ Well, what are you?” He didn’t answer, but his expression was enough. I battled to keep the folklore myths out, but I lost when a whisper escaped my mouth: “Vampire.” I clapped my hands over my mouth in shock. “That’s just a myth,” I added. “Right?”
     
    He stopped his pacing as he turned toward me and crouched down; then he simply smiled. As he grinned, the whites of his eyes went completely black and his canines extended into razor sharp points, making them longer than his other teeth. His completely black eyes met mine. Dread washed over me, and I felt faint.
     
    “ Does this look like a myth to you?” Ben said, and I screamed. I had gotten myself into this situation, and now I was about to die.
     
    “ I told you, I will not harm you.” Ben retracted his razor-sharp fangs and replaced them with his dimpled-filled, genuine smile.
     
    “ Don’t do that EVER again,” I said breathlessly. My heart pounded. I still felt very afraid but I needed to play it cool until I could escape.
     
    “ I will not. Now, please calm down; your heart beating that fast makes me thirsty for your blood.”
     
    I stopped breathing altogether, when he said that. But I had too many questions in my head that I wanted to ask; I blurted the first out before I could stop it.
     
    “ Is that why you became a nurse, so you could drink blood from the patients? Did you kill Ms. Blanke?” I put my hand over my chest at the thought.
     
    “ No! I am a nurse to help people. Plus, there is a blood bank in the hospital that supplies me, hence the juice.” I noted he conveniently left out Ms. Blanke that’s when a tear rolled down my cheek.
     
    “ But… Ms. Blanke?” I choked out.
     
    “ I did not harm Ms. Blanke!” He stated as a matter-of-fact. I sighed in relief that he didn’t.
     
    He stood calmly and I saw my opportunity to leave. “Well, can I go now? I mean, there’s no reason for me to stick around if I’m not your victim, I mean dinner, right?” I grabbed my bag again.
     
    “ Not yet; I have to clear your memories of this. I cannot have you telling everyone that you just met a vampire.”
     
    “ What do you mean ‘clear my memories’?”
     
    “ I can make you forget this entire conversation and about vampires,” he extended his hand to me.
     
    “ No, I don’t want you to do that to me. I want to remember that you are a vampire.” I pulled my hand back from him.
     
    He shook his head. “I have to; even you cannot know what I am.”
     
    “ Why?”
     
    “ You could be killed for knowing this!” The trepidation in his eyes seemed genuine.
     
    “ Killed? Who would kill me?”
     
    “ He will have you killed.” He fears for me, not himself. But then again, he was a vampire .
     
    “ Who is he, and why are you afraid? You’re a vampire!”
     
    Ben began to pace the floor again before he spoke. “Hades! He is more powerful than I and he owns the souls of the dead.”
     
    I relaxed, almost amused at his fright. “Wait a minute, Hades as in the Greek god?”
     
    “ Yes, Toni. This is not a laughing matter.” I wasn’t sure if he used Hades as a ploy to calm me down or not but it worked. Here he is a vampire afraid of a villainous storybook character.
     
    He was so serious I wanted to laugh more, but I stopped myself. “Okay, first of all, Hades is a mythical god. He is not real.”
     
    “ Toni, until five minutes ago, you did not believe that vampires existed.”
     
    He had a point, but Hades? Come on. “Okay, now you sit down. I may not know much about your world, but I do know a little something about Greek mythology and the gods.”
     
    He sat in the same chair from which I had just arisen. “You know of the gods?”
     
    “ Yes, and I know