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'I've been waiting for you.' Draven reached out and brushed Charlie's hair behind his ear. The gel seemed to disintegrate under the power of his touch.
'Wow,' Charlie spluttered but his mind was already floating away from his body.
Draven brushed his finger over Charlie's lips. 'Watch your words around me and never talk about me behind my back.'
There was nothing Charlie could do. He felt like he was watching everything happen from so far away. The more he tried to fight it, the more he started to float away from reality.
'This is the power you have over others,' he placed his palms over Charlie's eyes. 'Yet you refuse to use it.'
His ears were straining to hear.
'Let them stay in the dark,' Draven whispered. 'So that once in a while so you can get a glimpse of the light.'
Turned into a powerful monster, Charlie's the only survivor of an experiment that disintegrated his being. Forced to team up with Iris, a zombie vampire hybrid that consumes the mind with senselessness and taints the blood; and Luna Rush, a werewolf that uses desire to crush the heart. They have one choice either haunt, feed, infect, and transform strangers or be driven mad by the poison within.
© Heidy Rose Hardaker 2022