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

Lilith punched the grass in front of her, but her weakened fist did nothing to it. She barely even made an imprint on the dirt.


Was this what her life was supposed to be like? Unable to do anything but cry and wail, unable to change anything?! Why had she suffered for all these years, if only to repeat the same mistakes, again and again?


How many more times would her family leave her behind?


“M-Morgan!” she cried. “I don’t…I don’t understand, why would you do this?! We worked so hard, created so many memories. And now you’re throwing it all away, and for what? For your pride?! Or do you just want to die?!”


Lilith’s tears stopped, and she took a breath. Standing behind her, dressed in a bathroom, was Willow. She had just gotten out of bed, a flashlight in her hand. She shined it on Lilith’s tear-stained face, and her eyes widened in alarm.


Chapter 44: War Comes Home