Craving Desire will be released on Sep 2nd and you can read the Prologue below. It's book 3.5 in the Jessica Dawn series and tells Maria's story.
I
didn’t think things would end like this. For years I thought my friends would
find my dead body in an alley after my heart gave out to the overdose of
emotion I craved. Never in a million years did I think I would be falling to my
death. It’s true what they say about your life flashing before your eyes
moments before you die and mine wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted a normal life
with a family and a beautiful house surrounded by a white picket fence. I could
have had it, I did have it but true to my nature I wrecked it all. My life was
one big screw up after another and I was constantly trying to make amends. My
sins weighed heavy on my soul and I knew as soon as my body hit the ground I
would be going straight to hell. I’ve tried, really tried but I suppose things
were never meant to be. I didn’t deserve love or the friendship others easily
offered.
I
should have died years ago when I was being turned into an Ethos Vampire but
Brigate just had to save me. He had
no right! I knew what I was doing and hoped the fucker would finally stop
toying with me and kill me. Instead I was thrown deeper into the craving.
Brigate had always told me it was a long road to recovery but once an addict
always an addict. I convinced myself I could still love and have had that
thrown back in my face too. I suppose I’m grateful in these last few seconds
that I was finally alone. There was no emotion other than my own. I regretted
so much and the memory of the family I’d lost came flooding back. Only Brigate
knew what I had given up to the craving.
The
craving, it was more than that. It had clawed itself into my very soul with the
strength of the Ethos curse. I thought the love I felt for Kroll and what he
felt in return was enough to hold it back but his betrayal had cut through all
my restraints. Even now as the wind whipped at my face the craving was trying
to spread out and find something, anything to latch onto. It knew I was about
to die and was trying to save itself. The Ethos curse had twisted it into
something symbiotic. Until now I had refused to see it as something living
inside me. I saw it for what it was now; evil. I had managed to lock it away
with the help of Brigate and Jess but the walls they had built to protect me
were crumbling. It was the heartache. The heartache of losing Kroll had brought
all the memories back, memories I had tried to forget but they remained. I
remembered everything in these last moments and I decided death was the best thing
for me.
I
closed my eyes; there was no way out of the inevitable as the craving started
to manifest from my body. I felt the craving start to leave my body, its final
attempt to survive. The darkness began to pour from my eyes and mouth. A thick
sludge was escaping to attach to another and I couldn’t let it. I held onto it
for dear life as I finally hit and my body broke. I was finally at peace.
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