Welcome to a special GIVEAWAY WEEK edition of Hump Day Hook!
For Giveaway Week, I’m giving away an eBook of choice from Amazon or Smashwords to one commenter and a $5 Amazon gift card to another commenter. Both will be chosen via a random number generator. So check out the next installment of my demon short story and then make sure to leave me some feedback on the paragraph as well as your email address in a comment. It’s as simple as that.
*There are actually two paragraphs here. I apologize for that but since I couldn’t get my blog to cooperate last week, most people didn’t see the first paragraph. Feel free to skip over it if you saw it on Facebook.
When in his true form, with its wings and claws and fangs and golden eyes and midnight scales and absolutely wicked serpentine form, he craved death and destruction, gore and mayhem, along with the best of his fallen brothers. He was the best of them, and they were envious of how their master favored him. But when in his earthly form, the very thought of killing offended him, and the scent of the thickening blood and the dead corpse in the alley made him physically ill. He refused to allow himself to be sick, however, because vomiting the meat from his belly would deprive his body of its much needed energy, forcing him to kill again so he retained the strength to remain on this earth.
He spared himself one final glance at her blood-stained blond hair and glassy blue eyes, eyes that had held a genuine love for him as he laid tangled with her in the sheets only a short time ago. That was what she had wanted, love; it was what she had sold her soul to him for, and he had given it to her in the last few hours of her life before brutally killing her, ripping her still beating heart out of her chest and devouring her deliciously naïve soul. She had been so lonely and sad but masqueraded as a bubbly, social girl, and he had been truly attracted to her, spending a lot of time with her in the last few weeks. He had managed to keep her safe until tonight by staying far away while he felt the urge to kill to restore his energy, but when she had told him, amidst a tangle of sheets and blankets, that she would give anything to feel love and be loved, the darker side of his nature kicked in. One simple question was all it took to seal her fate: “Would you give me your soul?” Even as the words left his mouth, he was trying to pull them back, begging her to realize what she was saying and run far away from him. When her reply was a simple nod of the head, the dark powers of his master flowed through him involuntarily, bound as he was by an oath he had sworn long ago, compelling her to feel genuine love for him and sealing her fate and his hand in it so tightly that he could never hope to escape it.
Bound by Blood is my gay paranormal romance series set in modern-day NYC. I hope to be able to publish the first book in the series later this year.
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*Image is a stock photo of a man with a bloody mouth (© Arman Zhenikeyev/Corbis)
