She felt movement around her, then the brush of his hand against her neck, warm and strong…. Drawing her eyelids down was like wading upstream neck-deep in a river: slow, deathly slow.

She had enough presence of mind to realize how incredibly strong his pull was, and how difficult it would be to fight it off.ĭimly she forced herself to blink, trying to break the connection. Victoria was sluggish, but she still held the stake, and the candle in her other hand. His breath began to match hers, then fought to control their merging breathing.

The blood in her veins surged, swelling the vessels so that hot pressure pounded through her body. As Beauregard’s control crept over her, Victoria felt her limbs begin to soften and her head to swim.

Guardian vampires, the ones with ruby eyes who also made up Lilith’s personal guard, had especially strong enthralling powers. His lower fangs were much shorter, but just as lethal, and hidden by his lower lip.ĭuring their banter she’d foolishly allowed herself to relax enough that her gaze drifted too directly to his, too tightly to his ruby irises. So sharp that the feel of them sinking into one’s flesh would hardly be noticeable, more pleasure than pain. They were no longer than a man’s first knuckle, but sharp as a razor. “As you wish.” Beauregard grinned, and now his fangs flashed. Urn:oclc:759798767 Republisher_date 20120213055948 Republisher_operator Scanner .“I expect it will be only a matter of time until you do,” Victoria replied. OL8165739W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.62 Pages 374 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0749040300 Urn:lcp:bleedingdusk00glea:epub:f983e7a5-741d-4338-b329-7fcc0fedea17 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bleedingdusk00glea Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t40s0tv0z Isbn 9780451223265Ġ451223268 Lccn 2008571774 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL23654097M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:45:26 Boxid IA170901 Boxid_2 CH126724 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Pbk.

The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason