Welcome to the Weird, the Wild, & the Wicked for this week's Mid Week Tease hosted by Sandra Bunino.
Authors: this is a great opportunity to spotlight a few lines or even a paragraph or two from a new release or backlisted title. Readers: you get to sample some delicious snippets! We’ll do our best to tease, titillate and tantalize you into the weekend.
My Mid Week Tease is from Her Devoted Vampire. Bridget Shanahan has been taken to a stranger's house after she was mugged, but he doesn't want to let her go. Fredrick MacGregor tried to tell her he's a vampire, but Bridget isn't buying his explanation.
“Who the hell are you?
Did you escape from a mental institution? Forget to take your meds today? I
have got to get out of here!” Bridget shoved the tray toward him and tried to
slide out of the bed, naked or no. She’d raid one of the closets for a coat and
walk to the nearest place to get a taxi. Maybe
I’ll just take his trench coat.
“Bridget, I can’t let
you leave quite yet,” he said as he caught her right arm in a gentle but firm
grip. “Not until you tell me what you
are.”
“You can’t let me leave? Or won’t?” She
pulled against his grip, but it was like she was handcuffed to a concrete post.
“The result is the same
regardless of semantics.”
“Why are you keeping me
here? What am I to you? I was just minding my own business and told you I
didn’t want or need your help getting home, and you kidnapped me! Why didn’t you take me to the hospital?” The last was shouted at him as she
jerked her arm to get away. She kept pulling despite the pain in her shoulder
as his grip tightened. “Let me go!”
She yanked the full weight
of her body against his hold on her arm and felt the shoulder separate. His
fingers bruised her arm, and his expression shifted into feral intensity that
made her pull all the harder as she tried to breathe through the pain.
He’s a freak! I won’t be held like some animal for him to admire!
Fredrick squeezed her
arm until it was numb from the elbow down, and she moaned in anguish. At the
last second, she reversed her momentum and swung her free hand, balled into a
fist, at his head. To her amazement, he caught it and held it fast, not
crushing her fingers, but holding them tightly closed. She froze, absorbing the
meaning of his strength, and realized she’d never get away from him. He was
just too strong for her to fight. It infuriated her she was so easily defeated,
and she directed all that impotent rage at him through her livid glare.
“Let. Me. Go.”
“You are tired and
overwrought. You should rest.” He met her gaze unflinchingly. “We will speak
more after you’ve slept.”
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loved the opening lines of your post. nice tease! thanks for sharing. =)
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He doesn't seem like a bad guy and at the same time he is absolutely unbearable. I can totally feel why she is so hysterical about being with him.
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