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Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 3 #4
This week’s snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs.
Chapter 3. Skipping ahead a few paragraphs. Sloane doesn’t care for Tim’s strange mood. He tries to kiss her, but something pricks her tongue. She wonders what in the heck is going on. Well, she’s about to find out…
This snippet is Sloane’s POV.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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When he grinned she caught sight of two pointed incisors. Vampire came to mind, but that was insane. Self-consciously, she touched the side of her neck where he had bitten her the other night and stumbled back a few steps.
Tim’s mouth quirked and a low menacing chuckle greeted her. “I can see your wheels are turning inside that pretty little head of yours, but I’ll make it simple, unlike how my brother did for me. I’m a vampire. You know—the kind that drinks blood and all that.”
The kind that drank blood—was there another kind? “That’s impossible. You’ve been ill…and you must be…running a fever still.”
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So nice of him not to keep her guessing. lol Poor Sloane. She’s still in denial.
About Flowers and Fangs, “Stake and Dust series, Book II”:
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he’s been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek’s brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
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Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories.
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats’ prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She’s only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she’s determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter’s phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She’s a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter’s charms.
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I am embarrassed to admit that it has taken me this long to find your comment function!
I don’t like Tim, one bit!
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Tim definitely isn’t himself. lol
Glad you found the comment function. 🙂
Hope she gets over her denial soon…I have a feeling the truth will manifest itself, regardless of whether she believes it or not. Good excerpt!
T.M.,
You are so right.
I’m with Sloane–are there any other kind of vampires that don’t drink blood? I’d probably be in denial too. Hope she manages to get the heck away from him. Great snippet!
Jenna,
I could see myself denying the obvious too.
What, are there vegan vampires or something? Ha ha Love the snippet.
Joyce,
Maybe there are. lol
I’m curious about what his brother did/said. (Yeah, my mind can’t follow a beaten path.) I love how she rationalizes his comment.
PT,
So glad you’re intrigued.
“The kind that drank blood—was there another kind?” LOL! Love that!
Glad you were tickled by that line. 🙂
Tim is so not nice! But in Sloane’s place, I’d be grasping for rational explanations too.
Christina,
I would be too.
This doesn’t sound good for her since he bit her.
Elaine,
Probably not a good sign.
Is there any other kind?? lol
I’d react the same way–trying to rationalize something that defies rationality.
Good snippet, Karen!
Teresa,
Thanks so much.
Sloane sweetie, RUN!!!! Trust your instincts…oh, am I shouting? You’ve really got me engrossed in the story – great snippet.
So glad you’re liking the story.
Poor Sloan. I hope she figures it out soon.
Great excerpt.
I agree, what other types of Vampyres are there? I love that comment.
Carrie-Anne,
So glad you do. 🙂
Oh, how kind of him to make it simple for her! :/
Having JOKED quite a bit with my hubby whose maternal grandmother was born in Transylvania, I once asked him if he were to bite my neck would he turn me into a vampire, he told me no, he would just drink my blood (we were JUST JOKING, honest). Perhaps that is the other kind, the kind that turns a person?
Anyway, Tim sure seems full of himself, not sure if I like that.
Chelle,
lol- that’s too funny. Maybe you’re right. Could explain a lot.
Poor Sloane, she has no idea what she’s in for does, she? Great snippet! 😀
Amy,
No, she doesn’t but she’s about to find out.
Just call him “Fang” from now on.
Ed,
Great nickname. I think it works. lol
“Was there another kind?” LOL! I hope there isn’t. Unless you mean maybe a vampire bat. XD
She really needs to start trusting her gut and just RUN for it. Seriously, you see the fangs, you see the weird eyes, see the change, how he bit you…more than once. Sloane, just RUN! Don’t question it, don’t dispute and disbelieve it, just freaking run. Ugh.
As we all know, fever make teeth grow. Poor girl, it’s not a time for denial, it’s a time for strategy, make him speak, make him speak….
The kind that drank blood—was there another kind? – my first thought as well. wonder how she reacts now considering she was bitten ….
Whatever let’s you sleep at night. Great snippet, Karen. 🙂