Forsaken (The Netherworlde Series) (37 page)

He was growing used to the Eidolon. Its incessant coldness within him had come to be a constant reminder of its presence, its power and potential. He could feel it inside him now. It liked the encroaching darkness. He could see it in his reflection, thin rivulets of shadow creeping out in slow-moving tendrils along the glass, so thin and small, like strands of hair, they would be all-but invisible to most anyone. But Jason had come to recognize it now, the way it looked, the way it felt, its actions, reactions, instincts and impulses.
Because they’re mine now too,
he thought.
It’s just like Gabriel said. The Eidolon is a part of me.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”

The woman seated across the aisle from Jason and Sam had tried several times to strike up a conversation with them since they’d left the depot hours earlier. Her name was Lana and after the young couple’s noncommittal responses or utter lack of attention, she’d given up. She’d noticed the two of them gazing outside, however, and had lowered one of the ear plugearplugs of an MP3 player to give small talk one last shot.

“You kids ever been up this way before?” she asked, and when they shook their heads, polite but noncommittal, she leaned over and patted Sam on the arm. “Just wait, then, ’til we get a little farther north, near the Yukon border.” She dropped a conspiratorial wink. “People say it’s a little piece of heaven.”

Jason glanced at Sam and smiled. “What do you know?” he said, as outside the window, shadows slowly descended upon the outside world, engulfing everything in the comforting cover of darkness. “That’s exactly what we’re looking for.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“Definitely an author to watch.” That's how
Romantic Times Book Reviews
magazine describes Sara Reinke.
New York Times
bestselling author Karen Robards calls Reinke “a new paranormal star” and Love Romances and More hails her as “a fresh new voice to a genre that has grown stale.”
Dark Thirst
and
Dark Hunger
, the first two books in The Brethren Series
^TM
of vampire romance are available from Kensington/Zebra Books, while the third installment,
Dark Passion
, is available from Double Dragon Publishing. The series continues in 2011 with
Dark Passages: Tristan & Karen, Dark Passages 2: Pilar & Elías
and
Dark Vengeance
, from Bloodhorse Press, and in a free online graphic novel,
Dark Interludes,
available at: www.sarareinke.com.