
Shelter
Blood Haze: Book
One
By Tara Shuler
Copyright (c) 2011 Tara Shuler
All Rights Reserved
Smashwords Edition
For My Beloved Joe
R.I.P. 1991
Your heart taught me how to love,
and your memory keeps love
alive.
My heart was thumping rhythmically like a bass drum. My stomach clenched in knots, and I felt nauseous. I hadn’t fed on human blood in days, and now I was paying for it. A mixture of hunger and anxiety swelled inside me. I wanted to turn around and run, to flee back to the safety of the home I’d rarely left without a chaperone since my birth.