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Authors: RaShelle Workman
“You will witness what it means to sacrifice for the one you love. Then I’ll make you
an Akuma and you’ll be my daughter, like you should’ve been. Together we will rule the world. What do you think?”
I opened my eyes, pretending my brain was still mush
and forced myself to have an empty expression. One totally opposite of the way I was feeling.
“
Oh, silly me. You can’t think.” She laughed. The Akuma joined in. Then her features became deadly serious. “Let’s begin.” A silver dagger with red markings appeared in Maleficent’s hand. She focused her attention on Laeddin, raising the dagger high above her head.
As s
he began to speak words in the language I didn’t understand the dagger started to glow red, vibrating and shaking almost like it wanted to be free of her grasp.
Maleficent’s
words grew louder.
The red
radiance on the blade got bigger so that it consumed her hands and arms up to her elbows.
I glanced at Laeddin. He was
focused on my face, his features still empty of emotion.
The cheering and clapping of the Akuma found a
rhythm, like a bass drum keeping time to a beat only they could hear. The room shook. Black sparkles rained down from the ceiling.
The end wa
s coming. The very air crackled with its imminence.
I wanted to give
Laeddin some comfort, tell him everything was going to be okay, but I couldn’t because it would’ve been a lie.
Malefic
ent’s words rose over the roaring crowd. Her entire body was surrounded by the red light.
“Jasmine.” Laeddin
said my name so quietly I was surprised I heard it. But I did, like he’d spoken it in my ear.
I gave him my full attention.
Tears leaked onto my cheeks. I knew they would be red again, but I didn’t care.
“I love you,” he said. The words penetrated through the noise and deep into my soul.
A sob ripped from my throat. He wasn’t saying the words out of fear or because he was sad. He meant them. I could see it. Feel it in my heart and soul.
“Laeddin.”
He smiled. It was small, secret. Meant just for me. “It’s okay. Everything will be fine.”
I smiled back, appreciating the lies he spoke. Wishing we could’ve had more time together.
And an idea came into my mind.
There
was an easy solution.
Make a wish
, my mind whispered.
It
was supposed to be saved and used for capturing an Akuma. That was what Peter, Zoe, Troy, Ariel, Laeddin and I had planned. But the plan wouldn’t matter if Maleficent killed Laeddin.
Oh
my gosh.
The idea of no longer having him in my life struck deep.
It was as though I was being asked to give up my wings for him again. A new opportunity. If I had the chance to do it again, would I make a different decision? Would I give up Laeddin and keep my wings?
The answer was a resounding no. I would make the same choice over and over.
Tonight I would save him.
I didn’t have
time to debate what I should wish for. Nor did I have the option to ask Laeddin for help on wording my wish. The knife in Maleficent’s hands was on its descent. If I didn’t act now, it would be too late.
“I wish Maleficent would use the dagger on herself instead of Laeddin.
” I spoke the words clearly.
Laeddin blinked
, startled.
Immediately the knife changed course. It no longer headed downward, but went straight into Maleficent’s
chest.
The room went silent, the roaring crowd silenced.
The sound, like a blade forced into a honeydew melon, rang through the room.
Maleficent gasped, shock permeating her features.
“What—” She swallowed, looking down at the blade. It was buried deep in her chest. Her eyes filled with pain. “—have you done?”
The bands on Laeddin’s wrists, ankles and neck loosened. He jumped off the altar.
The red light glimmering around Maleficent got bigger. I didn’t know what I’d done exactly and I didn’t want to find out.
I held out my hands
, waiting for Laeddin to take them.
He clutched them tightly
.
And we were no longer in Maleficent’s
peculiar room.
We were home.
End of book
Two.
Thank you for reading the second book in the second season of Blood and Snow. In Vampire Lies we met Jasmine. She’s comparable to the Original Vampires in that she has wings, but she doesn’t like being different. In Vampire Secrets we get to experience her life as a
normal
teenager.
Over the course of this season
Jasmine will discover that being different is a quality that’s admirable and those unique attributes may just save the lives of those she loves.
I hope you enjoyed Vampire
Secrets. If so, please go back and leave a review. I would really appreciate it.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
RaShelle Workman
Book 3, Blood and Snow Season Two
Jasmine is an Original Vampire born of the seven magics. In all her fifteen years she’s had one desire, an ultimate wish.
And a gorgeous genie named Laeddin granted it.
She should be living her happily ever after, right? Wrong.
Her wish created grave consequences and only she can repair them. But every time she tries, the problems get worse.
Like the darkness overtaking the human realm as well as the others. Jasmine knows it’s the evil sorceress Maleficent. She’s seen her wicked plan to rule.
Jasmine must go after a crown created by the fairies thousands of years ago. It’s believed the artifact will give the bearer immeasurable power, but it’s been broken into five pieces.
The first is thought to be in Connecticut...
“For your vanity, your cruelty, and your cold unfeeling heart, a curse I leave upon you . . .”
What happens if the beauty is also the beast?
The stunning Beatrice Cavanaugh is considered American royalty. She has everything except the ability to love. Cursed on her eighteenth birthday, she becomes more beastly than ever, having a newfound craving for raw meat, and an undeniable yearning for the night. Bitterness is her only companion.
After accusing a maid of stealing, a disgustingly kind and exquisitely handsome guy named Adam shows up asking Beatrice to drop the charges against his mother.
Infuriated by his goodness, Beatrice vows to break him. Destroy him. Make him hurt the way she hurts. So she agrees. On one condition: Adam must take his mother’s place as a servant in the mansion.
Because Beatrice won’t stop until he’s more beastly than she is.
Coming December 21
st
, 2014 is a brand new story.
Ghosts are real. So is time travel.
Eighteen-year-old Lucy Channing discovers this reality after her dead grandmother gives her a beautiful locket. As soon as her fingers brush the cold copper, Lucy is swept out of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first.
The first person she encounters is none other than twenty-year-old William Godwin. He’s uber-rich, arrogant, exciting, and oh so handsome.
William agrees to help the strange girl find her way home. Or into the nearest mental institution.
But what the two uncover reveals more than ghosts and time travel. Lucy and William discover a love greater than time itself.
A love so strong it reaches...
Across the Ages
.
RaShelle Workman is the author of the popular Blood and Snow series. She loves to reinvent fairy tales teens and adults can sink their teeth into. Her stories include kissing, vampires, werewolves, witches, aliens, and more kissing. Sleeping Roses, Exiled, Beguiled, and Dovetailed have foreign rights contracts with a Turkish publisher. RaShelle is also one of the co-founders of Indie Recon LIVE.
Her books include
:
Sleeping Roses
Across the Ages
Exiled
Beguiled
Dovetailed
Blood and Snow (1-12)
The Cindy Chronicles
Vampire Lies (Blood and Snow Season 2, #1)
A Beauty so Beastly (the Beastly series, #1)
Vampire Secrets (Blood and Snow Season 2, #2)
Short stories:
Cindy Witch
The Hunter's Tale
Gabriel
After the Kiss
Zaren's Travels
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