Willow Faron was a girl with big dreams. She dreams of helping people and making sure they would come home to their parents after helping them at her clinic in Portland, Oregon. But the day after she opened her clinic/home, she found it robbed, and her robber was a vampire. 

Caught between two worlds and forced to serve the vampire as their only human doctor under a Blood Oath, Willow’s dreams have turned away with the setting sun. Only the vampire in question draws her further and further into the Underground, a fantastical world where myths and fairy tales come to life.

And what’s more, Willow doesn’t want to say no.

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Heaven help her. 

Willow didn’t know what came over her. She didn’t know why she did why she pressed her palm against Lilith, and ‘kissed’ her.

Was it the night's events making her frisky? Or was it simple desire?

Willow didn’t know, and she didn’t care. 

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Venipuncture is written by Damon Day, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.



Venipuncture

The days passed, and with them, came more pleasure and pain. Lilith had found more of her time taken up with Willow, but she also had to devote more of her night to keeping the Underground safe. Most of her nightly patrols was just making sure that the more…whimsical myths didn’t do anything stupid, such as preventing a Fae from taking someone’s name, or preventing a witch’s, uh, den, being discovered by the police.


The nights were always varied, and while sometimes violence was a requirement, it was rarely a common occurrence. 


This night, however, was proving to be one of ‘those’ nights. She had gotten word that Pluck, a rather stubborn Fae that never took blame for anything, was looking to sell some ‘Fairy Dust’ (really just…skin flakes (*Ew.*)) to some unknowing humans. 


That sort of thing was frowned upon for many reasons, such as being downright disgusting, and because that sort of thing may lead to undercover police mistaking them for a drug dealer.


Chapter 30: Lethal Protector