Abandoned: Blood Hunter, Aurora Kryan [free novel reading sites TXT] 📗

I cried so much before in my life. I sighed letting my forehead fall against his chest. My blonde hair fell like a curtain, hiding me from the world. He wasn’t going to get it. Hell I didn’t either. I should hate him, I should want to kill him. But I didn’t because he was Gavin. Maybe if I just spoke my mind he would understand.

“Yes, your Gavin, my Gavin, I could careless what you were just so long as you don’t leave me.”

My face twisted. I sounded like I was in love with him. Hell maybe I was, I didn’t know, I was just so lost. His chin pressed down on my head, arms slowly folding around me so I was engulfed by his warmth. I closed my eyes. It was the safest I had felt all night. We stood there like that for a couple minutes, just him and me like if we were at school.
He was the first to break the silence.

“Sky.”

I looked up, tucking my hair behind my ear. His voice sounded even for once and not scared. Brown bangs fell over his eyes making them smolder in the brightening light of early morning. My chest and stomach knotted. I didn’t know why but I felt like he was going to kiss me. Gavin kiss me? That was, I wasn’t sure what it was but it was something that made my heart ache.

His lips parted and I felt a bold of electricity shoot through me. Would he do it? I couldn’t move I was so nervous. I was very aware of his hand at the small of my back, and the other one on my collarbone like he was going to cup my face with it but couldn’t drag it up that far. His face tilted more and he licked his lips, a flicker of unease flying across his eyes. Did I look frightened?

Hell I was frightened but for what reason? I fanned my hand out on his chest waiting. It was his choice. I could never do it, I wasn’t gutsy enough. Chest moving unevenly under my hand he leaned in, eyes falling shut. God he was going to do it. The door slammed open and I jumped, shoving him away before the gap was closed between us. Heart pounding I looked around wild eyed as Emma strode in with a tray.

She stopped took one look at me and smiled wickedly. “I leave for five minutes,” she looked over to Gavin. I did too, fidgeting when he flicked a bright excited glance my way,” and you’re all over each other like two cats in heat.”

“It’s not like that!” We both shouted. My face went beat red.
Chapter 5 - Elephants

Sitting on a chair in the bright kitchen I fidgeted. Emma didn’t believe us when we told her we were just friends. Honestly we were, until we almost stepped over that invisible line ten minutes ago. I slid Gavin a nervous glance. He was just as jittery as me. Right knee closet to me bouncing he leaned back crossing his arms over his damp tee shirt.

I had been such a mess when I saw him I cried on him till his shirt was soaked. It was like a downpour of tears. Turning back to the table I sipped at my honey milk. It was warm and sweet just the way I liked it. I looked up at Emma and waited. She was the one who called us out here so I assumed she wanted to talk. Only she wasn’t. I knew Gavin wasn’t going to say a word about yesterday or last night.

Seemed I was the one who had to break the awkward tension. I sipped at my drink again. How did I even start? There was the obvious Gavin being a vampire issue to address. Not that I wanted to get into that again, yet. That could be saved for later when we were alone and I knew he would open up.

That left the boy, I wasn’t even going to think about the almost kiss around Emma, that was suicide. Something occurred to me then as the milk warmed my mind up. I had blacked out when he was at my house and my dad was sleeping less then ten foot away. I vaulted out of my chair nearly tipping it. Gavin jumped crashing to the floor.

“What’s wrong?” Emma asked alarmed.

“Dad, where’s my dad?” Neither of them looked at me. Seriously bad sign. “Gavin where is he?”


I turned on him, staring pleadingly at the six foot tall vampire on the floor. He looked away rubbing his head. I felt like I was going to faint. Dropping down into the wooden chair I turned to Emma. I felt pale, I wasn’t breathing and I didn’t think my heart was beating. I didn’t even say her name and she looked away from me. Shit.

“Garthview Hospital ICU.” She said quietly.

My heart beat once. He wasn’t dead but there was more to it then just critical care. I swallowed hard keeping my gaze as steady as possible on her. Her head dipped down like she was trying to hide from me. Why didn’t she answer me? What were they hiding from me?
The chair beside me thudded on the floor as Gavin righted it and himself from off the hard wood floor. I turned back to him, eyes desperate. I could see him fight the expressions on his face to go blank, fighting the urge to look away. I wrapped my arms around myself waiting.

“Sky your dad, he’s,” Gavin looked away like he couldn’t bare the weight of the words,” Comatose. There waiting for the word to pull the plug. They don’t think hell ever wake up.”

I went numb, there was no way to describe it, I was just numb. It was so much worse, he wasn’t dead but waiting to die. Stuck there in some hospital alone, unaware of anything and waiting. Waiting for me to tell them to pull the plug and stop his suffering. My head dropped, waves of cold washing over me. I didn’t think I could cry anymore, my tears were dried up.


A hand brushed my arm, rubbing it to warm me. Glancing up I stared blankly at Gavin. He was frowning at me clearly hating telling me the news. I covered his hand with my fingers making he stop. His hand dropped away. While I always loved hugging or leaning on him I didn’t want to be touched right now. Not now. Because it was my fault yet another member of my family was dead.

“Sky?” I looked over at Emma. My eyes were dead. She flinched back. “I’m sorry but there was nothing I could do when I got there. He was…” She stopped.

Somehow I knew what she was going to say. I nodded. He was left for dead after he had been fed on. I knew. That was the boys MO, leave them to die after he got what he wanted. That was the whole reason I was alive. That and my mother sacrificed herself for me. The awkward silence stretched on, neither of them knew what to say or do and I was just numb.

“So much on my mind,” I jumped, heart beating in my throat. It had been so quite when my phone went off I almost jump up on the table and screamed, “stay with me, please don’t go.”

Shoving my hand in the pocket of my shorts I jabbed the phone into silence. Flinging it on the table I drew my knees up to my chest. Emma and Gavin didn’t say a word. The small shock had jolted me back to reality. I could think again, though all I really wanted to do was crawl up in a dark corner and die.

There was nothing I could do for my dad. I would have to go to the hospital later and make the hardest decision of my life, but that would be hours from now. All I could do was wait, wait and get answers. I took in a deep breath, letting it out slowly. I just had to get through it until I was alone, then I could break down all I wanted.

My eyes drifted over to Emma who was playing with a stir stick in her coffee. She looked nothing like Gavin and she was his older sister. Surely they would have one common trait. But no nothing about them said blood relation. That could mean a few things, one of them was adopted. Or both were vampires.

“Emma are you…” I paused. I didn’t want to insult her. Then again I wasn’t sure if it was alright to speak the word aloud. She nodded urging me on, “ a vampire?” I said.

“Thank you, I was wondering when that elephant would disappear.” She smiled at me straightening in her chair. She got the hint, we were to forget about my father until the time came. “Yes I am a vampire,” Her eyes went to him then flicked back to me, “just like Gavin.”

A shoe scooted across the floor. Gavin didn’t like being drug into the conversation. I ignored him. “So like, how did that happen?” I sounded unsure.

“It’s ok to ask questions Sky, it’s normal to be curious. Besides how else do we clear the room of the annoying elephants?”

I blinked at her. She was making a joke of the old saying, elephants in the room. She was right though; there were a lot of elephants in the room. Most of them small questions that nagged me only a few were truly annoying. Leaning forward I let one leg drop off the chair and stretch out.


Wrapping my hands around the still steaming mug of honey milk I waited. She smiled sweetly at me, leaning over the table as well. It was Like Gavin had disappeared and it was just two girls reminiscing over passed lovers.

Chapter 6 - The Story of Emma Stone

“The story is actually rather short. I was a street bum back when New