For your reading pleasure...a snippet of a work in progress.

Blood of a Tender Heart

by

Kimberly Burton

writing as

Becca Bliss

A tender heart bleeds easily when broken by the one they love; at least that is what her Maker once told her. She really tried to remember this, but at times, it was hard not to follow her blackened heart and smash the love others bestowed upon her. She did not want love—did not need it—love played no part in her life now, it only caused pain to others involved. All she truly needed in this life—if you could call it a life—was blood and sex, both of which satisfied her carnal desires. If she had her way, the world would rid itself of this idea of “love” and be content with the sins of the flesh—these same sins that now became her vein of existence.

Lexorie refused to dwell any further on this deceitful notion of love and commenced in the hunt for sustenance of her body and mind. She knew better than to go forty-eight hours without feeding, but seeing Dracata at the club last night cast her into a frenzy of turbulent emotions—emotions violent enough to cause a mental and physical rage to battle deep within her body, tearing her very being into millions of tiny jagged pieces.

Not only was she hurting mentally from the pain inflicted upon her after the brief encounter with the one-time love of her life, but she was also doubled-over in excruciating physical pain caused by starvation. She knew she must immediately seek out blood to ease the inferno blazing inside of her body, but it could not just be from anyone—she had to seek out those that once loved her, ones that hurt her in one way or another—then, and only then, would her hunger for blood and sexual pleasure be sated.

Copyright © 2005 Kimberly Burton
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Work in progress. Unedited and Uncontracted.