Pretty When She Dies (43 page)

Amaliya clicked her phone shut and snuggled into him. “Santos wants to send an emissary again.”

“I think I'll continue to let him sweat for another few weeks,” Cian decided with a wide grin.

“You just love him being scared of you,” Amaliya laughed.

“You mean, afraid of you,” Cian teased, and kissed her lips lightly.

Rolling her eyes, Amaliya held tighter to him. She didn't speak about her powers that often. She wasn't completely at peace with them quite yet. “Afraid of us,” she decided.

Cian shrugged slightly and held her close to him as he stared out over Austin. His city. His home. His life.

And he was happy.

***

Cian was deep in thought and Amaliya knew better than to do anything more than hold him. He would tell her what he was pondering when he was ready. She was learning a lot about him and respected that at times he needed his silence. In his quiet moments, with his face set, he seemed more powerful than ever. He was a different man from when she had first met him. And she was a far different person from when he had first punched her lights out and kidnapped her to his lair.

The Summoner had changed them all.

Yes, Amaliya had woken up in a grave, but she had also woken up to a new life where she knew who she was and understood her purpose.

She was a vampire, a necromancer, Cian's second, and his lover.

Tucked into a beautiful apartment in the city she loved, she had found the happiness that had eluded her all her life. And though her presence had shaken the lives of many around her, they, too, had in an essence crawled out of their self-made graves and found a fresh, new life.

Resting her head on his shoulder, she looked back through the doors into the apartment and embraced the knowledge she was home.

And as her reflection formed in the glass, shaped by Cian's vision and love of her, she knew, at last, she was done running.

About the Author

Rhiannon Frater works and lives in Austin, Texas. She became an Independent Author at the urging of her husband.

Rhiannon loves reading, movies, gaming, and hanging out with friends and family when she’s not tapping away at her computer on her latest story. She also loves hearing from her fans and tries to respond to everyone who emails her.

Pretty When She Dies
is the first vampire novel she has published and she plans a future sequel entitled
Pretty When She Kills.

As The World Dies: The First Days-A Zombie Trilogy
is now available at Amazon.com and the sequel,
As The World Dies:

Fighting to Survive
will be released March, 2009.

For more information on the author, her upcoming appearances, and her writing projects, check out her blog at: http://rhiannonfrater.blogspot.com/

To contact the author directly, email her at: [email protected].