Demons Are Forever (Love at First Bite Book 2) Read online

  I’ve told you before about the night I lost Lily for the first time. Yes, it was before I met you, but I think I told that story vividly enough. It was a mugging. The man held me at knifepoint, and I killed him. I told you the truth in that I did have to kill him. I made a mess of it. What could have been a quick disable or kill turned into a bloody mess in more ways than one. I hurt him. And I kept on hurting him until he stopped moving.

  What I didn’t tell you is that I liked hurting him. I liked making him suffer. I enjoyed making him bleed and die.

  In short, Amanda, I am a bit of a monster. You need blood to live, and you have only killed when you needed to, but I’m the one who enjoys it. I enjoy the stab, the slice, the twist of the knife.

  However, I’ve been made aware that I might not be quite so insidious and monstrous a human being as I thought. Apparently, my time in prayer and church and confession may not be 100% for naught.

  My second secret is at the same time both much more innocent, yet much creepier at the same time, given secret #1.

  I love you, Amanda. That is my big secret.

  It sounds stupid to say it, but I love everything about you. I love your accent. Your hair. Your smile. I love how smart you are. I love how you think. I love your eyes, and the way they sparkle. I like just being around you. I even like who I am when I’m around you.

  Do you remember what I told you in the graveyard as we “pretended” to make out and profess our love to each other, so we could bait Mikhail's vampires? I wasn’t pretending. Everything I said to you was true. Everything I did, I meant.

  No matter what, Amanda, I will always love you.

  Marco

  Marco reached to click “send.”

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Declan Finn lives in a part of New York City unreachable by bus or subway. Who’s Who has no record of him, his family, or his education. He has been trained in hand to hand combat and weapons at the most elite schools in Long Island, and figured out nine ways to kill with a pen when he was only fifteen. He escaped a free man from Fordham University’s PhD program, and has been on the run ever since. There was a brief incident where he was branded a terrorist, but only a court order can unseal those records, and really, why would you want to know?

  He can be contacted at [email protected]

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  Read his personal blog: declanfinn.com

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  DECLAN FINN

  LOVE AT FIRST BITE

  Honor at Stake

  Demons are Forever

  Live and Let Bite

  Good to the last Drop

  THE PIUS TRILOGY

  A Pius Man

  A Pius Legacy

  A Pius Stand

  Pius Tales

  Pius History

  THE CONVENTION KILLINGS

  It Was Only On Stun

  Set To Kill

  URBAN FANTASY FROM SILVER EMPIRE

  LOVE AT FIRST BITE

  BY DECLAN FINN

  Honor At Stake

  Demons Are Forever

  Live and Let Bite

  Good to the Last Drop

  THE PRODIGAL SON

  BY RUSSELL NEWQUIST

  War Demons

  Spirit Cooking (forthcoming)

  PAXTON LOCKE

  BY DANIEL HUMPHREYS

  Fade

  Night’s Black Agents

  Come, Seeling Night (forthcoming)

  Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter 1 Physical Therapy

  Chapter 2: I’ll get you my pretty, and your little human, too

  Chapter 3: Sitting Targets

  Chapter 4: Welcome to San Francisco

  Chapter 5: Enter Darkness

  Chapter 6: I am coming home

  Chapter 7: Death In The Family

  Chapter 8: Welcome to the Jungle

  Chapter 9: Politics Bite

  Chapter 10: War

  Chapter 11: Bankrupt

  Chapter 12: Bloodstained

  Chapter 13: Hunting Party

  Chapter 14: Remember, Remember…

  Chapter 15: Reflections of The Way Life Used to Be

  Chapter 16: Fun and Games

  Chapter 17: Run For Your Life

  Chapter 18: Start of a brand new Day

  Chapter 19: Before the Storm

  Chapter 20: A Day of Reckoning

  Chapter 21: Asmodeus ex Machina

  Chapter 22: Talk With An Angel

  Chapter 23: Coming Home

  Epilogue

  Landmarks

  Cover

  Table of Contents

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter 1 Physical Therapy

  Chapter 2: I’ll get you my pretty, and your little human, too

  Chapter 3: Sitting Targets

  Chapter 4: Welcome to San Francisco

  Chapter 5: Enter Darkness

  Chapter 6: I am coming home

  Chapter 7: Death In The Family

  Chapter 8: Welcome to the Jungle

  Chapter 9: Politics Bite

  Chapter 10: War

  Chapter 11: Bankrupt

  Chapter 12: Bloodstained

  Chapter 13: Hunting Party

  Chapter 14: Remember, Remember…

  Chapter 15: Reflections of The Way Life Used to Be

  Chapter 16: Fun and Games

  Chapter 17: Run For Your Life

  Chapter 18: Start of a brand new Day

  Chapter 19: Before the Storm

  Chapter 20: A Day of Reckoning

  Chapter 21: Asmodeus ex Machina

  Chapter 22: Talk With An Angel

  Chapter 23: Coming Home

  Epilogue