Title:
Toma
Series:
The Dark Shadows 2
Author:
Ariel Marie
Cover
Designer: Natasha Snow
Releasing:
February 20, 2016
Genre:
Paranormal Romance
Synopsis
For centuries, the Dark Shadows have been charged with protecting the Vampire nation. Necromancers, their mortal enemies, are growing bolder and stronger in their attempt to destroy the vampires.
Anika Massey, best friend to the vampirian princess, has lusted after her friend’s older brother, Toma, for years and he doesn’t seem to even notice she exists. At least, she didn’t think the Dark Shadows warrior did, until the necromancers turned their focus on her.
He noticed her. One touch and Toma Olaru knew he wouldn’t be able to give her up. Since their first meeting he could not get the curvy human female off of his mind. He knew it wasn’t right for him to have feelings for his sister’s best friend, but fate had decided that she’s his mate. She’s human and according to Vampire laws, he cannot have her and should have never touched her.
Anika understands the ways of the vampires and knows she must let Toma go, but will Toma be willing to let her go?
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After working a 12-hour shift she
took a deep breath and stared out into the eerily quiet parking lot.
A pitch-black parking lot, she added, laughing nervously to herself.
Anika Massey never thought that she would be too chicken to walk out
of the hospital at night by herself.
“You can do it, Massey!"
she muttered to herself.
She had become accustomed to
having her vampire guard trailing her everywhere she went after her
best friend, Nadira, had been attacked about a month ago. Today was
her first day with no guard and she was more nervous than a
prostitute walking into church.
Taking a deep breath, she pushed
open the door to the hospital and practically ran to her silver
Toyota Camry. She looked into the car first, made sure no one was
hiding in the back seats and then jumped in and locked the doors.
“This is crazy!” she said,
shaking her head as she started the car and put it into drive.
She didn't live far from the
hospital and made sure that she drove a little faster than normal to
hurry home. She thought of all the tips that her Vampire guard, Idris
had given her before he was pulled from guarding her. He had taught
her tips on how to spot someone following her; he had installed a new
alarm system in her condo and even taught her a few self-defense
maneuvers, just in case someone threatened her.
Her best friend Nadira Olaru, a
vampire princess, wanted to have a purpose in life and had become a
nurse. They met back in nursing school and have been inseparable
since. Nadira was even able to pull some strings to help Anika get
her nursing job at Lutheran Hospital, a private paranormal hospital
that few humans were privileged to know about and Anika was one
hundred percent human. She was one of the few humans that work at the
hospital.
In all of her twenty-nine years,
she would never have thought that there were supernatural beings
walking this Earth with humans. Nadira was patient in explaining
about her being born a vampire and the other paranormals.
A little over a month ago, Nadira
became the target of a group of powerful beings called necromancers
who were currently at war with the vampires. An attempt was made to
snatch Nadira, and Anika was with her right before it happened. As a
precaution, Nadira’s father, the king of vampires, assigned a guard
to watch over Anika. It had been a month now and since there were no
other occurrences involving Anika, it was decided that she would no
longer require a guard.
“I’ll be fine. The necros do
not want a pleasantly plump human,” she tried to reassure herself
as she pulled into the parking lot of her condominium.
She didn't live in the best of
neighborhoods but at least there were plenty of street lamps
illuminating the parking lot. Her building was an all brick
three-story building with two condos on each level. Goosebumps spread
across her arms as she began walking up to her third floor condo. The
Cleveland night air could be chilly in the fall.
She hurried up the stairs when a
feeling of dread began to appear in her belly. She slowed down as she
made it to the top of the stairs on her level. She silently cursed
herself for taking the top floor condo and the buildings lack of an
elevator.
At five foot five and one hundred
and sixty pounds, she wasn’t drastically over weight but she was
definitely out of shape and had thought it would be great exercise
when she first bought the place. She definitely wasn’t what was
plastered all across the supermarket magazines.
The condo across from her had
been empty for a few months. The previous owners moved due to the
husband’s job transferring him to Phoenix, Arizona. She stopped
outside her door, putting her ear to it to listen to see if someone
was in her apartment.
“Get a grip Massey, there is no
one in your condo!” She unlocked the door, and immediately noticed
something was wrong. She pushed the door open and flipped the light
switch in her entryway and immediately a scream tore from her throat.
“Oh my God!”
Her place had been ransacked.
Everything was flipped over, her pictures slashed and thrown across
the room. The pillows in her couches were slashed and the filling
scattered across the floor. Even her television didn’t make it; it
was cracked as if someone kicked it in.
“Snowball?” She called out
for her little West Highland white terrier that her parents had given
her for her birthday seven years ago.
She didn't come running like she
normally would when Anika came home. She frantically wiped her face
as tears flowed down her cheeks. She knew she shouldn’t go into the
apartment but she had to find her beloved dog.
“Baby, mommy is home,” her
voice cracked ending on a whisper.
She pulled out her phone as she
carefully entered into her apartment stepping over her broken coffee
table and slowly making her way down the hallway. She stopped dead on
her feet at her bedroom door, frozen, as she stared at Snowball’s
tortured, bloody body hanging from the ceiling fan in her bedroom.
“No….” she moaned falling
against the doorway, sobs racking her body.
She backed up, bumping into a
solid mass. She quickly turned around and saw a hooded figure. A
scream flew out of her mouth, quickly cut off as the figure grabbed
her by the throat and lifted her off her feet, then slammed her into
the wall.
“Where is she?” the figure
growled.
She shook her head as she clawed
at his hands. She fought to get a breath as he pulled back and
slammed her again against the wall causing her world to go black.
****
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