Discovered (Book One Of The Angel Series)

That early Sunday morning, Talia Redwood awoke to not knowing that she would soon be taken over by every imaginable hell. She figured it was just another Sunday. As she woke up to the bright sunshine, she smiled. Although she knew she would have many chores ahead of her, at least the sun was out.

To everyone else, Jason Rocco was the perfect person. He was rich, kind, and adorable, but to Miss Talia, he was the man who came into her mom’s life, swept her off her feet and wrecked her life forever. He had forced her to clean, cook, and do anything else he just didn’t feel like doing himself; which was pretty much everything. Her mother, of course, never saw it – or if she did, didn’t want to believe it. The only escape from her everyday life was her best friend, Alec Rosewood.

Jason screamed over the intercom, “Tilly get your ass out of bed and get me breakfast!”

She sighed and thought, “...and the moment of peace is broken.”

She shimmed out of bed and rushed to her closet: she didn’t want to keep him waiting. She dressed in a dark pair of jeans and a black long sleeved shirt ran a brush through her hair and brushed her teeth as fast as possible only pausing for a moment to look in the mirror. She had a tall curvy figure, a mass of unruly curls for hair that were the color of the crunchy autumn leaves on the ground outside, her eyes were blue with rings of black in them.

Suddenly, she heard the intercom again.

“TILLY!” her step-dad screamed.

Tilly ran down the steps, threw a sweater on, and took off as fast as she could. She knew she would get a punishment about this later, but at the moment, she needed to go see Alec.

It was Alec who had given her nickname to her when they first met. She was five years old and had just moved in, and he was the school misfit who befriended her on the first day. One Friday after school, he ran to her house and knocked on the door. When her mother answered the door, he said “Hi, is Tilly there?” From that day forward, the strange boy was her best friend. Alec had the perfect bad boy look. He was tall with dark black hair, the smokiest eyes you could have ever seen, and his skin was as pale as a sheet of paper.

Yet underneath, he was the sweetest, most kind person Tilly had ever met. What she didn’t know was that he had a secret that would damage her forever – worse than the ones she was forced to keep every day. You see, behind the bad looking boy and sweet personality was the man who was supposed to be the one to kill her when she reached of age. Today, it was her seventeenth birthday and this was supposed to be the day she sprouted her wings. But Alec had another secret; he couldn’t kill her because – well, he loved her. She only saw herself as a mere pretty girl, but he saw a girl with a fiery temper but lost in a swarm of problems, a girl who was an exotic creature among little ugly frogs. Yet the most important thing he saw was that she was just too flawless and fragile for him to break.

So when Alec looked out her window and saw the lovely Talia riding toward him, his heart leaped out of his shirt every day. He imagined holding her in his arms, kissing her light soft lips, and looking in her beautiful eyes forever and ever. He could give her forever and ever with just one single blood exchange, but the only problem was she had to accept him as well. She didn’t know he was a vampire but today was the day he either told her he loved her or killed her. “So before I tell her,” he thought, “I’ll have to make sure she loves me. But how do I do such a thing?”

Suddenly a plan started unraveling in his brain. First, he would swoop her up in his arms carry her into the house and kiss her. The one kiss would be all it took because that one kiss will either lead to another or she’d slap him and run off. “Am I willing to risk watching her run from me?” he asked himself. No, he would tell her and she would choose. But what if she didn't understand? How is he going to handle rejection? If she does not, how would he kill the one person who made him feel alive? He couldn’t. He decided to forget about any ideas or plans and just let fate take its natural course, even if he didn’t like its solution. As Tilly stopped, she smiled at her friend. The beautiful boy was looking at her with a very odd smile.