Revisited (Redemption Series) by Lindsey Gray Read Free Book Online

know you don’t know what’s going on here, but you feel it.”
    “Yes, what is it?” The connection he felt to her had nothing to do with what flowed through her veins, but he had no idea what the hell it meant.
    Valentina sat up, her bare pelvis sweeping against his, and she groaned softly. “This.” She took his hand and placed it on her stomach. The action confused him more. “Filipp took your seed so the Ahbmonites would never die out. Three months ago, some of it was implanted in me.”
    Liam yanked his hand back as if he’d been burned. He knew what Filipp had intended to do with his sperm, but he never imagined he would have anything to do with the child.
    She took his hand back and returned it to where their baby was growing. “This is the last link to your humanity.”
    “I don’t want my humanity.” Liam moved her off him and stood. He walked over to the balcony doors in a haze.
    Valentina tiptoed behind him and wrapped her arms around his torso. “I know Filipp has tried to brainwash you. He’s been doing it to me for years.” She kissed between his shoulder blades as he nodded and placed his hand over her own. “A vampire army is not our destiny. This child is our future. It will hold us together for eternity, and after I have given birth, you’ll change me.”
    “No.” Liam turned to face her. He swept his palm up her arm, and across her shoulder to cup her cheek. “This child cannot have two blood sucking parents.”
    “It’s what is meant to be. I think we are meant to save the race, not corrupt and destroy it as Filipp demands.” Valentina placed a soft, warm kiss upon his lips.
    “How do you know?” 
    “I feel it.” She placed his hand on her stomach once again. “I believed in Filipp’s plan for so long. It was all I knew. But when they placed a part of you inside me, it was as if I had finally awakened after all these years.”
    Liam smiled before he gave her lips a delicate kiss. “Then why all of this?”
    “I’m pregnant and horny. I didn’t think you would mind.”
    He laughed, a full-bodied, spirit-soaring laugh. “A little explanation would have been nice.”
    “I wanted to have a little fun before getting into it all. Plus, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on these.” She strummed her fingers across his rippled abs.
    “Who am I to deny you, then?” He swept her into his arms and was on top of her on the bed within a second.
    She smiled as she caught her breath. “That was a bit of a head rush.” 
    “You haven’t seen anything yet.” He spread her legs open with the nudge of his knee, and feeling she was ready for him, entered her.
    They both sighed as they felt their connection strengthen. Nothing, and no one, could separate them now.

    Valentina lay in bed with Liam after they came together for the first time. Even vampires could become exhausted as evidenced by Liam’s soft snores.
    She knew there was so much going on around her. So many people were involved in the singular fight of good vs. evil. She had been on the wrong side for so long, for well over ten years. She now knew without a doubt what her grandmother had told her was true: Above all things, trust in God. 
    Valentina spent very little time with her grandmother as a child, but all her memories were preserved in the fabric of her mind. Her mother had not approved of her grandmother’s profession of witchcraft and did everything she could to remove herself from the ever present culture in Romania. When her parents were killed in a car accident, and her grandmother had long since passed, she was all alone, and her faith had dwindled. 
    When Filipp and Debir found her wandering the streets of Bucharest in an attempt to stay out of the government’s hands, she was a bitter and dangerous young woman. She did not understand the powers developing inside her ̶ ̶ the rage that had fortified the presence of darkness in her soul. The vampires used this to their advantage as they took her under