Take Me Once, I'll Bleed You Twice novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224

Riaghaire wasn’t one to fidget much and his body was normally rather still his heart didn’t need to beat, his blond des

but upon hearing her hypothesis he froze, It circulate, and he didn’t need to breath unless he wanted to speak at a corpse with dark eyes that were slowly turning crimson

a sign that whatever emotion he was fermingt was a

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Beatrice reached up and tapped him on the nose, causing the vampire to blink, eyes darkening after a second How Riaghaire Senior set the whole thing up? How else would he be able to show up at exactly the right time and know whi

without asking?”

“He… never me asked what happened,” Riaghaire repeated, eyes wide as the reality of it hit him. “But he’d known. He… he down wife and son were… And then I took all those lives… the wolves…”

“You’re a product of your maker,” Beatrice shrugged. “It’s to be expected. But… the fact you’re struggling with your past actions in

makes you far more human than vampire.” that you realize it might have been against people who did nothing at all

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“More human than vampire…,” he murmured.

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“Yeah. And, let’s be honest, wolves aren’t exactly saints either – I’m proof of that. Sort of. But that’s not the point. What actually matters is that you feel guilty – that guilt means you have empathy. Or a less skewed moral compass than the rest of your kind.”

“Gréine…” Yes, she was still doing that excuse thing again but she couldn’t help it when he looked so lost.

“It’s also a good thing you killed Riaghaire Senior in the end,” Beatrice said in a wistful tone. “Otherwise I’d need to learn how to hunt

vampires.”

The sudden switch in topic had Riaghaire frowning yet again. “You wish to hunt vampires?”

“What? No. I meant, like, if you hadn’t already killed the bastard then you’d have to stop me from doing it for you.”

He stared at her for a long moment, the corners of his mouth twitching from time to time before he finally gave up and smiled. “You are

far from normal.”

“Mmhmm,” she hummed, lying back down. “And you love it.”

and

The atmosphere returned to normal, the heaviness of the conversation gone. Beatrice found herself feeling content – happy, even was almost glad she’d been kidnapped back in the spring. It had, at the time, been a horrible experience but without it she would have never met Riaghaire, never learned Claire’s truth, or be adopted by a pack of scary wolves.

For once in her life, Beatrice felt like she was part of something bigger than herself

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that she wasn’t alone.

All it had taken was a single event to change everything.

An event that had shown her just how strong

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and rash she could be when pushed. It had proven she was a force unto herself, one

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Chapter 224

that stopped at nothing to make her opinions and boundaries known regardless of the consequence

And yet, despite all her flaws and rampant stubbornness, Riaghaire could see that, beneath the brazado, she was jus who wanted to laugh and be allowed to make her own choices in life. That she was as fragile as she was held This in 2 of the many the things she loved about him. One day she planned on telling him as much but, for now, she was cont

things as they were.

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It didn’t change the fact that, just as he would do so for her, Beatrice was certain she would gladly burn the world if it mei

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