Shadow K I S S E D
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he never existed.
The Usual Suspects
And with Vladimir always is Anna, the daughter of Fyodor.
Their love is as chaste and pure as that of a brother and sister, and
many times has she defended him from Strigoi who would seek to
destroy him and his holiness. Likewise, it is she who comforts him
when the spirit becomes too much to bear, and Satan's darkness tries
to smother him and weaken his own health and body. This too she
defends against, for they have been bound together ever since he
saved her life as a child. It is a sign of God's love that He has sent the
blessed Vladimir a guardian such as her, one who is shadow-kissed
and always knows what is in his heart and mind.
Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy
preface
I FELT MY HEARTBEAT DRUMMING, once a strong and steady beat now turned to a slow, fragile whisper inside me.
Was I dying? It had nearly happened once before, but I couldn't remember it clearly enough to recall. Had it always hurt this much?
The hunter cradled my face, almost lovingly, smiling down on me. I stared up at his terrifying beauty breathlessly.
I never imagined that I would find my way back to this place – about to die so long before my time, at the hands of the thing I hated most. Then again, what I had become had always demanded my death in this way. Surely it wasn't all for nothing; the one I loved had been spared in my place. As his face filled my thoughts, I knew – I would not have died in vein.
The hunter caressed my cheek fondly as he leaned forward to kill me.
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