Fiona by Maggie Shayne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Maggie Shayne
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal Vampire Romance
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When I came home after a night of partying with my friends that
beautiful spring morn, the last thing I expected to see was my
parents lying on the floor of our cottage. I ran to my father first, as
he was the nearer. But he was cool to the touch, chalk white, eyes closed,
still in his nightclothes.
Dead. My da was dead.
“No!” I fell to my knees beside him, pressed my fingers to his neck in
search of his pulse, but instead I felt, and then saw, two small dark wounds. I
gasped and drew my hand away, but my gaze stuck fast. The punctures were
swollen and red; there was not a drop of blood to be found, not even on his
skin.
We’d argued the night before. My last words to him had been unkind.
“Oh, Da,” I whispered, “I’m sorry. If you want to move away, we’ll
move away. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Da. I’m sorry.”
“Fiona,” Ma whispered.
“Ma?” She was alive! I scuttled to her side. She lay faceup on the floor,
still wearing her nightgown and her soft fleece robe.
I pressed her cheeks with my palms, searched her neck, fear making my
eyes widen and my heart race. I turned her head gently, to check both sides.
There were no wounds there, only her tears dripping onto the backs of my
hands.
“It’s my heart, darlin’. It broke to bits when I found yer da like that. Oh,
my sweet Michael!”
“I’ve got you, Ma.” I was already fumbling for my phone in my
handbag, somehow still hanging from one shoulder. I tapped out 999. They
answered quick. I said, “My father’s…my folks were attacked during the
night. My mother’s having chest pains. Please hurry.”
“It’ll do no good, child,” Ma said. “I’m not long for this world. I so hate
to leave ye alone. But we’ve little time left, and there are things ye must
know.”
Her burr was heavy, her voice weak as she lay dying on the rag rug
she’d braided herself. Beyond our windows, Loch Ness sparkled in the
morning sun as if nothing horrible was happening along its green shore. It
kept winking in my eyes.
I stroked Ma’s face. It was pale and cool. “I never should’ve stayed the
night away. I was just so angry, him wanting to up and move away from
here. Away from the loch.”
There’d been a bonfire with my schoolmates, and plenty of drink to
celebrate our final day at university. I hadn’t planned to take part, but with
Da acting so crazed, I’d left in a huff. We’d drunk ourselves foolish and
camped out overnight. And look what I’d come home to.
I never should’ve gone.
I rung off, dropped the phone, and gathered Ma’s head onto my lap so I
could hold her. “Help’s on the way, Ma”
She shook her head in the cradle of my arm. “Listen to me, Fiona. We
were livin’ in the States back then. There was a fire in the research center,
beyond the village. Dark place. Secretive.
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