Blood Descendants (St. Clair Vampires Book 1) by Beverly Toney Page B

the Stewards and the Sanguine Fare and
explorers were commissioned to find a place that was free from the
prying eyes of humans. At first they went to Africa and then to the
New World before settling on a small island near the coast of India.

Chapter 5

    Tabitha had been
flipping through magazines the entire time I was reading. Watching my
reactions and offered looks of sympathy where she felt appropriate,
she offered support in the only way she knew how. When I finished and
pushed away from the table, she set her magazine down and started to
offer explanations.
    “ I
know that your life has just turned upside down and I am sorry for
that, but it was hard to find you after you were adopted the last
time. Those boys on the bus, well, they were sent to take you to a
man that your mo…well, a man who wanted to use you for his own
purposes, so we ….”
    Tabitha kept talking
but I was stuck on two points. If all of this was true, why was I in
the system at all? Why didn't Efia or one of the others simply adopt
me instead of allowing my adoptive mother to do it? And was Tabitha
about to say something about my birth mother? And did Tabitha know
where she was right now?
    I didn’t remember
much about my mother, in fact all that I remembered were her eyes
being the same color as mine and the sound of her voice. My mother’s
voice would make angels weep. It was deep and sultry and felt like a
warm blanket wrapped around your shoulders. It felt like love and I
had never felt that way since. I was put into the foster care system
around the age of 2 and had been bounced from home to home ever
since. Like Tabitha had said, my life had been turned upside down.
    “ Cheyenne?
Are you listening to me?”
    “ Not
anymore. I want to know about my mother. What do you know about her?
And what does she have to do with the boys from the bus or any of
this?”
    “ I’ll
tell her.”
    We both turned at the
sound of a new voice and saw a short girl wearing the same black
military suit that Tabitha had on. She was followed in by the largest
of the three dogs and came to a stop directly in front of me.
    “ This
is Zeus,” she said, introducing me to the dog as if it was the
most normal thing to do. “He's the father of the twins and very
sweet.”
    I looked at the large
dog and his black eyes and didn’t see sweet. His head was
massive and I assumed that his teeth were extremely sharp, although I
couldn’t see them. Zeus and I stared at each other for a few
moments before he sneezed and walked away. Artemis and Apollo rose
slowly and followed their father out of the room without a backwards
glance. These dogs were starting to creep me out. Their human
mannerisms were a bit unnerving.
    After the dogs
departed, my attention returned to the girl standing in front of me.
She looked to be about three inches shorter than me with wonderfully
curly black hair that sat on her shoulders. A headband held her hair
off of her face and I could see a strong forehead and intelligent
eyes; chocolate brown eyes. She had clear creamy brown skin with tiny
little freckles across the bridge of her nose and a perfect heart
shaped mouth. Without an ounce of makeup on, this girl looked as if
she could walk on to any movie set and be the next great teen pop
star.
    “ Hi.
I’m Chloe St. Clair…your sister.”
    Efia had informed me
that I had a sister in the house somewhere, but I hadn’t had
time to imagine what she would look like. Now that I saw her standing
in front of me, I couldn’t be happier. I fought back my
emotions and cleared my throat in preparation for my response when
she flung herself into my lap and hugged me. I lifted my arms and
held her there as if my life depended on it and cried.
    We sat there crying in
each other’s arms for what seemed like an eternity when the
bedroom door opened and closed. Tabitha had left us alone. I pulled
away from her only so that I could see her face. Her nose was smaller
than mine, a little bit more turned up.