Blood Desires

Blood Desires by Olivia Starke

Order of Terminus BLOOD DESIRES By Olivia Starke

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Blood Desires by Olivia Starke

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Blood Desires Copyright© 2010 Olivia Starke ISBN: 978-1-60088-509-9 Cover Artist: Tuesday Dube’ Editor: Lana Williams All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews. Cobblestone Press, LLC www.cobblestone-press.com

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Dedication To my four four-legged workout buddies Ace, Max, Sugar, and Silas. Thanks for getting me away from the computer and into the sunshine each day.

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Chapter One Monday the 27th Dear Diary, …P.S. to my last entry I just got the call that I’m in! I have a meeting tonight with Remann and I’ll be offering myself to him. He is very picky about his Feeders, but it turns out I’m perfectly his type…type AB negative that is... Kate Andrews pitched the diary next to where she sat on the bed. A painful lump had lodged in her throat. Hot tears stung her eyes and threatened to spill down her cheeks. She’d read this last entry of her half-sister, Melanie’s diary perhaps a dozen times. Each time she tried to find some hidden clue to her nineteen-year-old sister’s whereabouts. ‚Oh, Melly, where are you?‛ she asked the empty room. She rose from the bed and walked into the living room and found a can of goldfish food. Sprinkling a pinch in the aquarium, she watched the hungry goldfish gobble up the multi-colored flakes. Their scales caught the aquarium light and reflected it back in a metallic glimmer that danced over their little bodies. Their reflections twinkled on the surface of the water as they darted from flake to flake of food. After she watered a couple of ferns in the tiny apartment, Kate took another walk through the apartment Melanie rented. Melanie James had gone missing three days before, the night of the last entry in her sister’s journal. Kate brushed away the tears staining her cheeks, licking the salty taste from her lips. Melanie had been an aspiring fashion model in Chicago with the looks and attitude to carry her into the business. Yet within six months after she’d started her career, she’d fallen into a gothic underworld, according to the journal. At thirty years of age, Kate was level-headed and didn’t hold much stock in the paranormal or supernatural. Vampires were just silly teenage crap as far as she was 5

Blood Desires by Olivia Starke

concerned. Her sister had fallen for it full heartedly and somewhere out there was living some crazy fantasy