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Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 15
Chapter 15 A high wave hit Jade hard and she swung around in the water to look back toward the beach house. She was suddenly getting the feeling that this was probably a bad idea with the storm surge coming in so fast. She made a confused face seeing an ugly green van in the water between her and the beach house. “What the? Where the hell did that come from?” Jade swam forward and quickly closed the distance but drew back when she heard a stream of cuss words coming from the other side of the van. Dirk held on to the van, but with the sand moving under his feet, it was a wonder the damn thing didn’t roll over him. Finally gripping the door handle, he lifted himself into the driver’s seat glaring at the fact that the water was high enough to have already covered the floorboard with a good ten inches of salty water. How the hell was he supposed to back the van up now? Making a sound of disgust, he jumped back out into the rising water and tried to maneuver in front of the ove
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 16
Chapter 16 Tasuki leaned back on his sofa with his arms stretched out over the back of it. As soon as he’d gotten home, he had carefully unloaded his newly acquired painting and brought it in right away. After searching his living room walls for a few minutes, he finally settled on the perfect spot… right over the fireplace. It had taken him some time to remove the pictures and knick-knacks from around the mantel and mount the painting, but as he gazed up at it now it wasn’t hard to be satisfied with the results. He had planned on going to bed once he got the portrait hung but couldn't find the willpower to pull himself away from its presence. He glanced over at his bookshelf littered with dream research books. He’d read all of them in an attempt to understand and control them. Others claimed to have succeeded but so far he was at the mercy of the dreamscape. Finally, he decided that he wanted to be looking at Kyoko’s portrait as he fell asleep. Lying down on the soft cushi
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 1
Jaded Blood Blood Bound Series Book 10 Amy Blankenship, RK Melton Copyright © 2012 Amy Blankenship Second Edition Published by Amy Blankenship All rights reserved.Chapter 1 Eleven years ago… LA, the Hogo Shrine. Tasuki listened to the silence of the house and it was slowly starting to drive him crazy. He couldn't sleep right now if his life depended on it. Getting out of bed, he flipped his bedroom light on so he could see the picture tucked into the rim of his dresser mirror. The picture was of his best friend’s sister Kyoko and he’d taken it from their house when no one was looking. The photo had been taken at the perfect moment, catching her beautiful emerald eyes in the sunlight. The day it was taken must have been windy because it looked like her hair was lifting around her to frame her sweet face. He’d never wanted a girlfriend before but the little girl staring back at him from the photo was all he could think about. Reaching for the pictur
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Tasuki’s mood hadn’t improved much since returning to the station. All the way here, he could hear other officers over the radio reporting in on demon sightings. It kept reminding him of the first time he had ever seen a demon… the same night Kyoko disappeared. He touched the place on his side where the light had entered him that night and frowned in remembrance of his fear and disappointment when he found the Hogo family gone the next morning. He’d showed up to walk Kyoko to school like he had promised, only to find the house abandoned. It was something that had haunted him for a long time and he still hadn’t gotten over it. Hell, he still had Kyoko’s birthday present. It was a small golden promise ring that his grandmother Mrs. Tully had helped him pick out. For the last eleven years, he’d been having dreams about Kyoko and demons. Strangely enough, as he’d grown up, so had she in his dreams and the dreams were getting more frequent and disturbing. The thought o
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Alicia had just finished making herself a cup of coffee when her cell phone started ringing. Rushing toward her purse, she grabbed the device taking a quick glance at the caller ID. She put it to her ear with a bright smile. “Hey Micah, what’s up?” “Do you have some time to spare for your big brother?” Micah asked turning his back on the other two men in the room so they couldn’t see the relieved expression on his face. He’d half expected Damon to answer her phone. Alicia shrugged, “Yeah, I guess so. Damon went out with Michael and Kane. He probably won’t be back for a while yet.” “Good, because I really need a favor,” Micah began. “We’ve got a she-wolf in one of the holding cells here that we just rescued from a raid on the underground slave trading. She hasn’t shifted back yet, but when she does… she’s going to need a change of clothing. Do you think you can bring something down to the station for her?” Alicia looked over at her huge closet full of clothes
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Micah sighed for the hundredth time since calling Alicia. So far Tasuki had gone to check on the she-wolf six times, Titus had run off three more officers when Phillip started having trouble keeping them out, and the captive guard had started gnawing on his wrist in an attempt to get out of the chair. Of course it wasn’t exactly the guard’s fault he was suddenly desperate to escape. They had gotten bored and started taunting him on the intercom about the things Lucca would do to him when the mob found out he was a snitch. “This is not how I wanted to spend my day,” Tasuki complained. “I hear that,” Micah muttered wishing Alicia would hurry. She’d said Damon wasn’t with her and that made him want to see her even more. Tasuki glanced over at Micah, “I’m curious, how many cougars and jaguars are in this city?” “A few hundred at least,” Micah answered. “But not all of them hang around with the pack. Some of them are satisfied with their mates and try to live a n
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Jade flinched when she heard the sound of breaking glass and cracked her eyes open to thin slits. Expecting to see the cage she’d been locked in for the last month, she was confused for a moment finding herself on a small cot of some kind. She’d been drugged again… that much she knew. She still remembered the sting of the tranquilizer dart she had been shot with. She slowly inhaled, testing the air for hints of her surroundings. The scents here were different… cleaner… not dirty like the warehouse she’d been in. As the effects of the tranquilizer wore off and her vision started to clear, Jade noticed the bars were a different kind and seemed further away. Keeping very still so as not to give her alertness away, she moved her gaze just enough to see that she was right… she was in a jail cell rather than her normal cage. It wasn’t much of an improvement, but at least she could move far enough away from the bars if they came at her with that stupid cattle prod again.
Last Updated : 2023-05-19Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 6
Chapter 6 Nick couldn’t help the feelings of jealousy rising up in his gut as he watched Ren make a show of slowly fixing everything in the shop… one item at a time. Ren had asked them not to sweep up any of the glass and debris until he reconstructed everything he could. Nick sighed wondering if Ren was repairing only one thing at a time on purpose… purpose being so he could hang around longer. “I thought you were supposed to be PIT’s power house?” Nick whispered sarcastically so Gypsy wouldn’t overhear. Ren would be able to hear him perfectly and that was what mattered. “I can be completely human one minute and surging with power the next,” Ren informed him. “It just depends on who is lurking around.” Nick narrowed his eyes, feeling like that lurking remark had been directed at him then gritted his teeth when Ren confirmed the insult. “It’s not my fault I’m surrounded by weaklings right now.” Nick perked up when he heard the distinctive sound of something crackin
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Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 16
Chapter 16 Tasuki leaned back on his sofa with his arms stretched out over the back of it. As soon as he’d gotten home, he had carefully unloaded his newly acquired painting and brought it in right away. After searching his living room walls for a few minutes, he finally settled on the perfect spot… right over the fireplace. It had taken him some time to remove the pictures and knick-knacks from around the mantel and mount the painting, but as he gazed up at it now it wasn’t hard to be satisfied with the results. He had planned on going to bed once he got the portrait hung but couldn't find the willpower to pull himself away from its presence. He glanced over at his bookshelf littered with dream research books. He’d read all of them in an attempt to understand and control them. Others claimed to have succeeded but so far he was at the mercy of the dreamscape. Finally, he decided that he wanted to be looking at Kyoko’s portrait as he fell asleep. Lying down on the soft cushi
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 15
Chapter 15 A high wave hit Jade hard and she swung around in the water to look back toward the beach house. She was suddenly getting the feeling that this was probably a bad idea with the storm surge coming in so fast. She made a confused face seeing an ugly green van in the water between her and the beach house. “What the? Where the hell did that come from?” Jade swam forward and quickly closed the distance but drew back when she heard a stream of cuss words coming from the other side of the van. Dirk held on to the van, but with the sand moving under his feet, it was a wonder the damn thing didn’t roll over him. Finally gripping the door handle, he lifted himself into the driver’s seat glaring at the fact that the water was high enough to have already covered the floorboard with a good ten inches of salty water. How the hell was he supposed to back the van up now? Making a sound of disgust, he jumped back out into the rising water and tried to maneuver in front of the ove
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 14
Chapter 14 Titus swung his gaze around to glare at the open doorway. Testing him was not the wisest thing for her to be doing at this stage in the game. Hearing her moving around in the living room, he figured it would be best for him to join her since Storm had made it his personal business to maintain her welfare. The sound of something beeping made him move a bit faster wondering what the hell she was doing. “What do you know, it still works,” Jade’s voice drifted in to him. He stepped out of the bedroom and frowned when he saw she was lying back on her window seat with the bottle of wine in her hand and a cordless phone tucked against her ear. He started across the floor to take the house phone away from her. Calling up her admirers to let them know she was back wasn’t going to go over very well if he injured them as they showed up. Feeling Titus approach like an angry storm, Jade lifted her eyes and sent him a glare that would probably have made the paint on the Hummer
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Guy gave Ren a once over. “Glad to see you’re all right. Storm told us what happened with the Demon Blade and said it wasn’t pretty.” Ren nodded his head, “Yeah, hurt like a bitch. Did Storm tell you the demon wielding the blade was the same demon that killed Carley?” “No, he left that little detail out,” Guy growled and made a fist at his side. “Are you sure?” “Without a doubt,” Ren nodded then cocked an eyebrow at Guy’s body language. “You can relax… he’s dead.” Guy’s angry frown melted away and he took a step back, bumping into the counter. “How? Tell me everything. Did he suffer?” While Ren spoke to Guy about what actually happened, Carley continued her little tour of the shop… more specifically what was inside the safe. Her eyes sparkled at the old books and manuscripts the shop owner kept in there and smiled knowing she could read them even after they fixed the safe and locked it. Being a ghost seemed to have more ups than downs. Carley heard the s
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Gypsy glanced out the window seeing another customer throw their hands up at the closed sign and turn around to leave. She frowned recognizing the lady as the head of one of the local Wiccan groups who tended to spend several hundred dollars during her weekly supply run to the store. She glanced longingly toward the back room where she had a whole box of odds and ends the lady had ordered, but Ren had said no customers until the place was back to its former glory. Sadly… she agreed. The last thing she needed was for rumors to start flying around about her shop. She watched the woman turn away then do a double take and looked back up at the window. Gypsy set the healing crystal down that she’d been polishing and slid from her barstool watching the lady step closer to the front window and touch it with her finger. She cringed when the woman looked at her finger and made a face before heading down the sidewalk. With a worried frown, Gypsy went into the back of the s
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Titus latched his fangs into the demon’s throat, feeling them piercing the jugular vein. With one quick jerk, he sent black blood spraying out across the room in a wide arc. Jade was immediately dropped and she scrambled to her feet keeping her eyes locked on the wolf that was struggling to keep a hold of the thrashing demon. Her lips parted at the magnificent creature. Titus was larger than most werewolves… definitely larger than Caleb or Danny had ever thought about being. She took a quick step back when the demon tore its way out of Titus’ grip and pushed the Alpha aside… only to then turn its attention on her. At first glance, the demon looked like any ordinary human, but this one’s eyes were solid black with blackish smoke leaking out of them. Jade silently hoped the thing was leaking because it was dying from the wound Titus had just given it. To her horror, the demon possessed human opened its mouth and a long stream of writhing black smoke shot out toward
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 10
Chapter 10 “If we are riding in a cop car, can I please ride in the back,” Jade asked with a bat of her eyelashes wondering if he had a funny bone in his entire body. “Missing your cage already?” Titus smirked as he passed her. “If you’re feeling homesick for constraints, then I’ll gladly handcuff you to your bed so you can feel safe enough to go to sleep.” “In your dreams,” she happily informed him as she rolled her eyes and stayed a couple steps behind him. There was no way in hell she was going to let that visual take hold in her brain. It irked her when he opened the front door for her like a gentleman. Once they were out in the parking lot, she wasn’t disappointed when he passed up the squad cars and clicked a button on his keys causing the headlights of a solid black hummer with tinted windows to flash. When he went straight to the passenger side and opened the door for her, she crossed her arms over her chest and asked, “What am I… five?” Titus let go of the do
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Michael couldn’t control the rapid beating of his heart as he made eye contact with Aurora and saw the smile appear on her beautiful face. She was happy to see him… he hadn’t made the wrong decision to come so soon. Tracing to the ground, he approached the entrance of the condominium and waited in the large lobby for her. His eyes slid closed in bliss the closer she got to him and when the elevator chimed its arrival, he turned just as the doors opened. Aurora stepped out of the elevator and did the first thing that came to mind. She ran out and wrapped her arms around his neck. Ignoring the knowing smiles of the people around them, she pulled her legs up and wrapped them around his waist as she urgently kissed him. Michael inhaled sharply and tightened his arms around her. Getting a rather wicked idea, he carried her back into the open elevator as their kiss intensified. Reaching behind him, he pressed a random button and waited for the doors to close. When he fe
Jaded Blood (Blood Bound Book 10) Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Titus slowly stood up and cursed as he raised his hands out to the sides. “You won’t get far if you fire that thing. There’s a rather big police station right across the street and over half the cops there are werewolves from my pack,” he warned her. “They’ll hear the gun go off and come running.” “Thanks for the heads-up, now move it,” Jade instructed and motioned him toward the door with the gun. She took a step back when he came from behind the desk, his approach quickly reminding her of how much bigger and stronger he was than her. To hide her nervousness, she smiled at him to let him know she had the upper hand. Titus grudgingly did as she ordered and stepped out into the hallway. He figured she wanted outside so he headed toward the front of the building to open the door for her. As they passed her cell he heard her stop moving. “Get inside,” Jade ordered not trusting that he wouldn’t set off some silent alarm and ruin her chances of a clean escape. “Let’
