"Paige.... What are you?" The silence that lingers, and his bright eyes, suddenly dark, causes me to grow weak, tears burning at the corners of my eyes, threatening to fall. I can't tell him, I know I can't. The truth burns inside my chest, desperately seeking to burst out.
"I would tell you, Josh. I really would. I can't. I promised so many people so many things. But I can show you, I will show you" My words are spilled and rushed, but regardless, I cautiously reach out my hand, and reluctantly, he takes it.
Paige Johnson lives in two worlds, at school, a normal teenage girl, with boyfriends, best friends, and typical teenage drama, and at home, daughter of the head of the IVC (International Vampire Committee). As her dad is the most important vampire on the face of the planet, Paige is expected to live the life of a high profile young women in a world of people expecting her to live up to the great things her mother has achieved. Living as a vampire was never a problem, until the safety of their kind is threatened, and forces her to take on a role she wasn't ready for yet. With her life in the human world briskly coming to what seems to be a close, Paige must choose between what is expected of her, or what she knows she really wants.
"I know you are there," she said, her heart beating loud in her chest as her eyes searched frantically around. "I can...sense you." She added, hoping that might just scare whoever of whatever that was following her.
She sighed, waiting for an answer or a noise, or anything that would just alert her of the ubiquitous presence with her. However, when a long time passed and nothing happened -the trees were still as still as they were and the moonlight shone as brightly- she counted from one to ten and turned to continue on her walk but she stopped frozen when she came face to face with the biggest wolf she had ever seen. Her heart jumped out of her chest when her eyes locked with it's red ones.
A late run in the woods one night brought Asher to human teenagers camping in the woods. The fact that they could feel free to party there despite all the stories told about the woods interest him and a flitting thought to see what they were up to brought him face to face to someone he never thought he would meet.
She was not pretty and wasn't even the average of his taste in women but there was something about her that seemed to pull him and seemed to calm his raging demon. But apart from that was something else, something that screamed danger and might ruin all his years of effort.