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Love Immortal
Felicity Heaton
Rescued
from werewolves by the most breathtaking man she's ever seen, Lauren is
dragged into the fight of her life and a dark world she never knew
existed. There, she discovers that she's the latest reincarnation of a
goddess and must drink the blood of her immortal protector, Julian, in
order to reawaken and continue her three thousand year old mission to
defeat Lycaon, the original werewolf.
With the help of Julian and
an organisation of people with supernatural abilities, Lauren fights
for her life, their future and the fate of mankind against Lycaon and
his deadly army, but can she succeed when Lycaon has killed all of her
predecessors?
Can she crack the armour around Julian's heart and
seize her happily forever after with him? And can Julian bring himself
to trust Lauren with the fragments of his heart after everything he's
been through?
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********* EXCERPT *********
Julian
leaned forwards, his elbows coming to rest on his knees. She could see
down his collar. The light was dull but she could see enough to tell
that he was good looking. Her gaze darted to the lamp beside her bed. If
she could just turn that on, she would see him properly at last. She
would see that her instinct about him had been right.
He was more handsome than anyone she’d ever met.
Her heart skipped.
A soft look entered his eyes, his expression earnest and open.
“I
am your guardian, Lauren,” Julian said in such a calm and gentle tone
that the tight feeling inside her began to melt away. She liked how he
said her name, pronouncing it slowly and carefully as though he was
savouring it. “I would bleed myself dry if you willed it. I am yours to
command. It is not a matter of strength, but if you believe it is, then
use mine until you find your own.”
Her heart thudded now, hard
and heavy against her ribs. God, could this man be any more wonderful?
All of her tension melted and her bones began to follow it. Warmth
glowed inside her, happiness that this man believed in her even though
he barely knew her. He believed that she was strong and she could feel
the truth in his words. He would do everything he said. He would lend
her his strength, and he would bleed himself dry for her.
“Would
you really do that? Bleed yourself dry?” she said, captivated by the
romantic notion of him doing anything for her, even risking his life.
She wanted to hear him say it again.
His pale eyes narrowed
slightly and she couldn’t take hers away from them. There was something
about his eyes. She could look into them for forever. The world could
end and she wouldn’t care if he were looking at her as he was now.
“If
you desired it,” Julian husked. Tingles chased down her back, spreading
through her. “My blood is yours. If you needed it all, you would have
it.”
Even when he talked about blood, she felt intensely drawn to
him, willing to do whatever he asked if he could promise her eternity
with him. It was crazy. Insane. She didn’t know enough about him to be
dreaming that kind of future. Perhaps she’d been alone too long. But
then, a man had never looked at her the way that Julian did.
With love.
With intense passion.
With need that said he might die without her.
If he kept looking at her like that, she would go through with the awakening just so he would continue.
“How much blood do I normally need… to awaken?”
“Enough that I am too weak to protect you. Should Lycaon attack, we will be vulnerable.”
Those
words sent an unpleasant shiver through her and made her realise that
she didn’t like the idea of Julian bleeding himself dry for her after
all. She didn’t want him to die. She wanted him to live. Even the
thought of her awakening weakening him left her cold. Had he learned
from experience that they were vulnerable during her awakening?
“Is that why we’re here?” Lauren leaned forwards a little, her eyes still locked on his, searching them for answers.
He
nodded. “It is. The Ghosts will protect us. They do not fully
understand the situation, but they will not fail us should there be an
attack.”
“Would you fight?” That question made her stomach turn.
He nodded again, solemn and slow.
“Why?” She sat back in the armchair, horrified by the thought that he would risk his life for her by fighting when he was weak.
“Because my duty is to protect you.”
Lauren
didn’t have a response to that. He really did believe in his duty, and
he’d carried it out for millennia. He knew his purpose in life and he
was sticking to it. She knew hers and couldn’t decide whether to embrace
it or bury her head in the sand.
It wouldn’t get her anywhere if she did that though. Burying your head in the sand didn’t stop death.
Julian
was still looking at her with a soft tenderness in his eyes. How far
would he go for his duty? She tried to think of a way to test him, to
plumb the depths of his dedication to her.
“Would you do anything
I asked?” Lauren said cautiously, looking deep into his eyes to check
if he was telling the truth when he answered.
He nodded again.
The look in his eyes hardened for a moment and a shadow of pain crossed
them. Lauren leaned forwards again. What had he been thinking? She hated
seeing hurt in his eyes. When he’d left her room this morning looking
so sad, it had torn her apart inside with worry. Something terrible had
happened to him in his past. It had to have to make him look at her as
though he was dying inside.
“Even kill Lycaon?” she said.
“If I could.” His voice was low and as cautious as hers had been.
“If?”
He
took a deep breath and sighed. “It is forbidden. The death of Lycaon is
your duty and yours alone to carry out. I cannot interfere in that
battle, just as Lycaon cannot interfere with my existence. When Illia
died, Zeus realised his mistake. Zeus did what he could to help you. He
made me immortal as you wished, and he made me invulnerable to the
threat of Lycaon, but he could not change your curse to make you
invulnerable to Lycaon’s blade. He could only ensure that you would be
reborn and that I would be there to awaken you.” Julian leaned closer,
his eyes on hers, and then cast them downwards at the floor. “If I could
spare you from the horrors of battle, I would.”
There was an
edge to his voice. Lauren could read between the lines. He wanted to
protect her and it seemed duty didn’t have anything to do with it.
Lauren
stared out at the night through the crack in the curtains of the middle
window. The sky was growing light in the distance above the building
opposite. The air in the room was heavy, hard to breathe, thick like tar
in her lungs. She didn’t know what to say. Did Julian want to protect
her for another reason? Was that reason anything to do with the way he
looked at her sometimes?
Did it have anything to do with her, or was there more to her reincarnation than she knew?
“Am I always the same when you meet me?” she said slowly, unsure of whether she wanted to know the answer to that question.
“Your
instincts sometimes carry on,” he said in a distant tone. She continued
to stare out of the window. “There is a reason you are drawn to swords
and combat.”
“A shinai is very different to a real sword… but
when I’m facing my opponent in kendo, when I’m fighting, I feel a
strange kind of peace, as though everything is right in the world. Is
that my instincts too?” She glanced at his katana where it rested on the
bed beside him. She’d never held one before. How was she supposed to
fight with a sword when she was used to nothing more than a glorified
bamboo stick?
“Perhaps. The principle of combat is the same in real life as it is in kendo, and I will train you.”
Her
gaze darted to him long enough to see he was looking at the sword now,
and then went back to the window and the beginning of dawn.
“I will see to it that you can fight, Lauren. Do not fear.”
The
niggling feeling of doubt and fear in her stomach disappeared. She was
sure that he would keep his word and teach her how to fight. She just
wasn’t sure how good she would be at it. She was only at second grade
level in kendo.
She pushed away her worries and watched the sky.
The dawn was fast becoming beautiful, as peaceful as she felt inside.
Pink traced the sky. Gold lined the scattered clouds.
“Do I always look the same?” It was the question she’d originally wanted to ask and the one that she feared the most.
“Yes.”
His eyes were on her now. She could feel them. A blush touched her
cheeks and she was glad that the low light would hide it from him.
“Sound the same?”
“Yes, but the language is often different.”
Lauren
looked at him, her heart on the verge of falling into her stomach. It
had risen so high, so far into her throat that the drop was dizzying,
like plummeting down a rollercoaster.
Julian had mentioned that
Illia had changed him. She had desired him to live. In her heart, Lauren
knew what that meant. Illia had loved Julian.
Had Julian loved Illia?
Lauren was just a carbon copy, a replication of the original that he’d loved.
Her
heart hit her feet. She frowned at the sky, trying to pretend that she
found it interesting even though it had lost all its colour and warmth
the moment she’d realised that all the looks Julian had given her were
really about Illia.
She tried to say something but the words
stuck in her throat. She coughed to clear it and then breathed deep in
an attempt to steady herself so he wouldn’t hear the hurt in her voice
when she spoke.
“Will I remember my past lives when I awaken?”
Her voice was still tight. She feared that he would notice her change in
feeling—her hurt. If he did, he didn’t mention it.
“I do not
know.” His gaze was still on her. She could feel it and she wished she
couldn’t. She wanted to make him leave. She ached for her old life—for
the time when she’d been normal, not some reincarnated demi-goddess.
“Sometimes you remember little things.”
Lauren stared into the
distance, hoping that she remembered nothing this time. The thought that
she was continually reincarnated had begun to feel comforting but now
it choked her. It made her feel small and insignificant. To Julian, she
was just another Illia. It was probably instinct making her fall for
him, not her real feelings.
She was such a fool.
She’d
been an idiot to think that someone like Julian would really look at her
that way. When he looked at her, he was looking at Illia. Well,
whatever he believed, she wasn’t Illia. She didn’t know who that woman
was, but she was sure that Illia had been strong and brave and
everything that Lauren wasn’t.
Lauren wanted to laugh at herself
but her gut twisted when she thought about Illia. She pressed her hand
to it, surprised by the violent feeling. Jealousy had never hurt like
this before.
Gentle fingertips against her jaw made her start.
Heat danced around the spots they touched. Julian slowly brought her
head around so she was facing him. Her gaze dropped to her bare feet.
She couldn’t look at him now. If he saw her feelings, she didn’t know
what she would do. Right now, she felt vulnerable and weaker than ever,
and one wrong look from him could break her.
His fingers brushed through the strands of her wet hair, his caress tender and soft, very careful.
“You
seem so different this time,” he whispered and her heart started at a
pace, lodging itself in her throat and trembling. “Your hair…”
“It’s dyed,” she said, eyes shooting to his.
“I
know.” There was a faint hint of a smile in his shadowed face. Her
insides flipped. What he said next made them jig and her head spin. “It
suits you. It brings out warmth in you that I have never seen before.”
Her eyes widened. Warmth that he’d never seen before? Were all her predecessors cold? Even Illia?
“I
understand that this is difficult for you, Lauren. Each time you are so
different, you react so differently, but it is always hard for you to
come to terms with what is happening.” His fingers paused in her hair,
resting gently against her scalp. His palm brushed her cheek and she was
tempted to lean into it. “I should have reached you sooner. I am sorry
that I took so long… and that because of me you have less time to make
your decision.”
There was such an earnest look in the depths of
his pale blue eyes, tinted with regret, that Lauren found herself
reaching up and covering his hand with hers, wanting to comfort him. Her
fingers closed over his, pressing into his palm. His hand was so warm.
“How did you find me?”
“I
told you. I can sense things. That sense is strongest when it comes to
you. It guides me to you.” He paused and drew a deep breath. This time,
he didn’t sigh. The hurt was back in his eyes. “I normally find you
faster, but I was… delayed.”
Lauren knew better than to probe
into that answer. Whatever the delay had been, it had pained him. As
much as she wanted to know, she couldn’t ask. After the way he’d looked
at her this evening, she never wanted to hurt him.
Because he already held a world of pain in his eyes.
His hand left hers and she sat back, again becoming aware that she was only wearing a towel, only now she didn’t care.
Lauren
stared deep into Julian’s eyes, mesmerised by every dark fleck against
palest blue. A sense of calm filled her, as though she’d found a haven
in a storm and knew that she was safe at last. The things he’d told her
lost their frightening edge. Everything seemed strangely normal.
Everything felt fine again.
Julian
was immortal—a vampire of sorts. She’d lived thirty lifetimes and was
on a mission to stop the king of werewolves before he managed to get
revenge on the ancient Greek gods. Soon her latent abilities would
awaken and she would become immortal again. Perfectly normal. Completely
insane.
When she looked into Julian’s eyes, the world was right
again. When she looked into his eyes, strength surged through her and
she was ready to take on Lycaon and defeat him at last.
It felt so warm and quiet here with him, drifting through her life one breath at a time, one heartbeat after another.
Lauren frowned.
“Is
the hypnotism thing a power of yours too?” It had to be a power. He
hadn’t told her all of his abilities yet and she was sure that this was
one of them.
“Hypnotism?” His left eyebrow rose and then they both knitted into a frown.
“Yeah.
You did it the night we met and you’re doing it now. When I look into
your eyes—” She cut herself off when it struck her that he wasn’t
hypnotising her. There was another possibility. She really did like him.
First, the instant attraction, then the jealousy and now she turned
into a daydreaming little girl whenever he looked into her eyes. She
might as well just melt into a puddle around him. It was fortunate that
she could speak or look at him at all without falling apart. Lauren
chided herself. She was stronger than this. No man was about to reduce
her to a quivering wreck. “Forget I said anything.”
The ardent
way he looked at her sent a blush blazing across her cheeks. Standing,
she turned away and walked into the bathroom, taking her clothes with
her.
She stopped in front of the mirror and looked in the
reflection at Julian. Her stomach flipped. He was watching her, his gaze
drifting down her back towards her legs.
Was she really different to Illia? Warmer? If anyone would know, it would be Julian.
When Julian looked at her, did he see her or did he see Illia?
She hoped that he saw her.
Because when she looked at Julian, she saw a man who was stealing her heart piece by piece.
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Felicity
Heaton writes passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton
and F E Heaton. In her books she creates detailed worlds, twisting
plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances
with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy
shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!
If
you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward,
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will
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If
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In 2011, five of
her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night
Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance
2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her releases received five star
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