Change of Fate (The Briar Creek Vampires, #4) by Jayme Morse & Jody Morse by Jayme Morse Read Free Book Online Page A

the
hotel room, slamming the door behind him.
    Craig glanced over at the girl. “So, now that you
already know my name, what’s your name?” he asked.
    “Rhonda,” she replied, smiling at him. She leaned
back on the bed, resting on her elbows. Her hair fell over her
shoulders, and there was an unusual glow to her skin.
    No wonder Gabe was moving on so quickly. Something
about this girl was oddly attractive.

Chapter 9
     
    ****
     
    That night, Lexi dreamt that she was
alongside a river where there were hundreds of butterflies swirling
around her, attaching themselves to her clothes and to her hair.
The sun was shining, and everything seemed so happy . . . when
suddenly, everything turned black.
    Dark clouds moved across the sky like a movie
screen, and the rain began falling down all around her. As the rain
began to soak her clothes, Lexi looked for cover.
    She found it beneath a canopy of willow
trees, which had branches that loomed over her protectively. Just
as she hugged the trunk of the tree, loud footsteps sounded from
behind her.
    “She smells alluring,” a man’s voice said
quietly, as though in whispers. Then in a whispery voice, he said,
“Hunter blood.”
    “Aye, very alluring. I bet she’s delicious,”
a second man’s voice agreed. This voice sent chills down Lexi’s
spine. It sounded gruffer; she was sure that it belonged to someone
much more mature than the person who the first and seemingly more
innocent voice belonged to.
    “Do you want to drink from her or shall I?”
the first voice asked. Although this voice was filled with desire,
Lexi knew that he was submissive enough to listen to whatever the
first voice would tell him to do.
    “Let us share her. You may go first, but
don’t be too greedy,” the second voice replied.
    Feeling a hot breath on her neck, Lexi tensed
up and cracked open one eye.
    There was a guy, who appeared to be not much
older than she, hovering over her. When he met her eyes with his
own cat green eyes, he appeared startled. The guy glanced over his
shoulder before turning back to Lexi and, covering her mouth with
his hand, sunk his teeth into her neck.
    Lexi felt a warm feeling rush over her body,
sending chills down her spine, as the vampire drank from her. She
should have known that this was going to happen without the bat
pendant. There must have been a reason Belinda had been making the
bat pendants in the first place. Vampires had probably been
stalking Albert for weeks at this point.
    As she felt her blood gush from the wound,
the vampire swirled his tongue around her skin, lapping the blood
up hungrily, Lexi began to lose focus of her thoughts. The guy was
drinking from her forcefully – more hungrily than Gabe ever had –
and it was making her feel weak.
    Deciding that the end of her life was in
sight, Lexi stopped struggling and gave in to the attack. Her mind
drifted to Gabe. They would never see each other again. She would
never get back to the 21st century. This was it. She was going to
die.
    At some point, Lexi felt the guy stop
drinking for her. She waited for the second guy to begin drinking,
but she didn’t feel him move towards her. Not that it was
surprising; she didn’t feel anything at all. It was as though her
body had gone into some sort of shock. She couldn’t bring herself
to open her eyes – partly because she was too afraid to see what
was happening to her, but mostly because she felt too weak to even
try.
    Lexi felt strong hands grabbing her waist and
lifting her up before everything turned to blackness.
     
    *
     
    A bright light shone in Lexi’s eyes, and her mom
appeared in front of her.
    “Mom?” Lexi whispered. Even though she still felt
weak, she was really excited to see her mom. It had been a long
time since her mother had paid her a visit. “I didn’t think you
would be able to find me here.”
    Her mom’s lips turned up into a warm smile and she
touched Lexi’s face with her fingertips. “I’ll always be able to
find