call of night: beyond the dark Read Free

Their faces he could see in the shadows. Their voices, an echo in the wind. Frank Fallon was prepared for the war between the living and the undead. He had known for years they walked the earth, by keeping it a secret it became the biggest mistake he had ever made. He accepted his wife leaving to save her, he knew she would never understand but it was better than knowing the truth. His brother joined him in the fight as long as their identities of what they were remained hidden from the vampires.
    Frank met his brother at Harley’s Tavern not far from his apartment. George sat at the table with a disappointed look on his face.
    “Did you do it?” George asked even though he was sure he already had the answer.
    “Less vampires in this town, the better.” Frank answered.
    George wasn’t at all surprised by his brother’s foolish act. Vampires could smell the blood of a hunter a hundred miles away.
    “You know what you just started then?” George knew his brother just killed them both.
    “I did what I had to.” Frank knew he went about it the wrong way, but he had nothing left now so what did it matter?
    “They’ll be everywhere.” George took a shot of his whiskey, he needed it.
    “We got the tools, we got everything we need.” Frank said with certainty.
    “We don’t have the man power.”
    “No, but we have Katya and Lily.” Frank was determined to make the world safe again where children could play without fear. 
    “You plan to use your own daughters? They are not the same anymore, they don’t have a soul.” At this point, George was starting to believe his brother may have lost his mind.
     
     
     
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    As daylight set, Dana Boyd opened the bookstore. It had been in her family for years and recently been passed down to her. The store wasn’t the kind most of the residents in Thornton Lake would have approved of or dared to enter. None of them knew what lay in wait in the dark, though there are those who had gone missing, they never were able to put two and two together. Dana knew one thing for sure if she could go back into the past to the day she had her first encounter with a vampire she would have destroyed him instead of being paralyzed with fear, the question remained in her head, why hadn’t he killed her?
    She had done all her research, had gotten all the protection she needed. The vampire haunted her dreams, he was still out there. She saw him through the women’s eyes as they screamed with horror.
    In daylight, Dana had the chance to feel what peace was like. For a while, she almost forgot how good it was.
    On the counter was a package waiting for her as she unwrapped it chills began to run down her spine. There was an old photo she had never seen before of her great grandfather and what looked to her to be a younger woman until she read the message written on the back.
    Her name was Gwen and she was the key to ending it all. On the bottom of the package, there was an old skeleton key and an address taped to it. Not sure who sent it to her or how they found her, but it was meant to reach her. Another time and place she would have never thought twice about what was expected of her in the here and now.
     
     
     
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