Kiss From A Rose
Blood
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Pamelastyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>:
Don’t forget that the pregnant woman is style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
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Yawningstyle='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>:
If you already liked this then I guess you will love some of the chapters which
are yet to come…
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EN-GB'>: Now I feel like a drug dealer ;)
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EN-GB'>: Of course I left a cliffie. I love
well, as long as I’m the one writing them and not the one watching/reading
them.
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Chapter 19
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Blood
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EN-GB'>Adrian
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Dyson,
can you stay here and watch Julia?”
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EN-GB'>Adrian
what…”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“I
have to find her!”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“I
don’t know what exactly happened here, but someone must have kidnapped her and
I have to find her!”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You
don’t even know where she is. How long she’s been gone. There’s nothing to be
seen in this snow!” Marcus said and tried to keep
EN-GB'>Adrian
from running out of the house immediately.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“She
can’t be gone that long. And they will have headed for the woods, where they
can’t be seen immediately. So that’s where I’m going.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You
can’t go alone.” Dyson tried to reason with him as well, but he could tell that
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“I’ll
come with you.” Marcus told him and together they headed out into the darkness.
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was cold. That thought played itself over and over in her mind. The hem of her
dress was reaching the snow as Fred dragged her along and every now and then
the fabric hit her legs, sending shivers through her body. She could barely
feel her hands anymore and she could clearly see the breath of Fred and his
friends in the moonlight.
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knew she held them back with her constant attempts to flee Fred’s arms, but she
never succeeded. Now her only hope was that
her missing and find the doors open
when he returned. He was the only hope she had to get back home now. And she
clung to that ray of hope as she tried to not think how it must feel to freeze
to dead.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You
should have left her there! They will catch us! And all because you have gone
mad!” one of Fred’s friends told him angrily and
EN-US'>Angelina
that they would leave her now. She would somehow manage to find her way back
home. And she needed to get out of the cold soon. The snow that kept falling
started to soak her hair, she could already feel some
of the wet strands clinging to her skin. Her eyes hurt from the cold and her teeth
chattered underneath Fred’s hands. She wanted to be home, in her bed, next to
EN-GB'>Adrian
and not out here in the cold with some lunatics.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Do
you have any idea who could have kidnapped her?” Marcus asked through gritted
teeth as he tried to keep from shaking. No one would be out in this weather if
they had a choice.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“No.
I could think of some people who would like to hurt her or me, but they would
use more subtle ways to do so.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Like
Camille?”
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EN-GB'>“For example.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Just
remind yourself that this weather here is what she has most likely in summer.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Had
he not been so worried,
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think of
EN-GB'>. Where she was, who had taken her. And he blamed himself for not
protecting her. For not being there when she had needed him.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Have
you thought of the possibility that whoever has taken her has just apparated
somewhere nice and warm like, say,
EN-GB'>Hawaii
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EN-GB'>Adrian
stopped and held his hand up to keep Marcus from talking.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You
hear that?”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Hear
what? All I can hear is the storm …”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“There
were voices. This direction.” And
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was already heading to where he had heard the voices.
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waist.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“What
did you do that for?” Fred asked her and looked at his hand.
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you crazy?” Angelina
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“I
want to go home. I WILL go home this instant!” She was about to turn around
when Fred grabbed her hand and yanked her around.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“I
know you’re lying, Angie. I know you still love me.” He looked at her with
pleading eyes.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Can’t
you see that this is our chance to be free? We can leave together and live a
happy life together.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You
really are mad. I would never leave with you!”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Angie.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Stop
it Fred.”
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you two shut up!” Dave turned to face Fred who kept
staring at Angelina as she turned away from him.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“I
told you it was a mistake going after her.” He took a step to Angelina and
turned her around by her shoulder.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“Oh
no, you won’t go now.”
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tension of the evening left Angelina as her rage needed a way out of her body.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“Let
go of me you son of a …”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“Shut
up you bitch!” Dave slapped Angelina, causing her to fall to the frozen, snow
covered ground.
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like to spread your legs for those deatheaters, you little whore?” Dave asked
angrily and kneeled down in the snow next to her, not caring how cold it was as
he started to reach for her skirt.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“Dave!”
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up
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EN-US'>Bryan
let out a curse while Fred stared paralyzed at Angelina’s unmoving form. His
eyes looked straight at the thin red trail that showed in the snow next to her
temple. The moonlight shone on her blood as he saw her eyes trying to focus on
something.
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saw Dave being hit by a ray of green light and falling on the ground next to
her when he had been about to fully uncover her body from her skirt. He felt
himself being pulled away from
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and followed him.
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heard something falling into the snow next to her and then she saw Fred running
away. Only this time, she felt no pain at being left behind by him. If only it
wouldn’t be so cold…
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as she thought this she was being picked up by a pair of strong arms. She felt
EN-US'>Adrian
kissing her head as he pulled her closer against his chest. When he turned
around, her gaze fell to Marcus
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He looked at the man – Dave – who was lying in the snow.
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he…” she whispered and tried to look into
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eyes.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“He
was hurting you.” Was the only reply she got from him.
Her head ached. She couldn’t remember having been in such a pain before. Or
maybe it was the cold that increased the feeling.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“I
didn’t want to leave.” She tried to say but it was barely
EN-US'>Adrian
tried to find out what she had said she had already become unconscious in his
arms. And so there was nothing for him to do but carry her back home and hope
and pray that she was alright. The thought of her not opening her eyes again
was more frightening than he had ever thought possible.
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