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.

***
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. 

***

Venipuncture is written by Damon Day, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.



Venipuncture

They sat in silence, each one waiting for the other to speak. It would be easy, Lilith noted, to just pounce on Willow right now, to take her, to make her a vampire. It wouldn’t take very long, not even ten seconds, to dig her fangs into Willow’s neck to start the process.


And yet, the idea didn’t sit right with her. Even thinking about it was like someone had latched a rusty lock onto her heart. Was it a line she wasn’t brave enough to cross, or a standard she didn’t want to break?


“Say something,” Lilith said finally. “Anything.”


“What do you want me to say?” Willow replied, and at that, Lilith had no answer. 


“I just…can’t stand the silence,” Lilith answered. “I…I never wanted this to happen.”


“I can’t imagine why,” Willow returned. 


“…Can you, at least, tell me a reason for why you don’t want to be a vampire?”


Willow shrugged. “Can’t go out into the sun, and while I love your pale skin, I worked hard to get this tan and I—”


Chapter 41: Making a choice.