” I whispered. “Good girl” she nodded and smiled at me still looking very scared and trying to put a brave face on. My father fought against the...men trying to bash their way into the door, he held himself against it and with every bit of strength he had he struggled to keep them off.My father's red crimson eyes looked towards my mother as she stood in panic and silence, he knew it wasn’t long before they found there way in. “Rosanna.. Forgive me” my father said before taking a step aside. Crashing through the trees, his now weakened body was jarred by every impact, and he fell limply to the earth. Fractures of every kind, from compound to spinal, turned his very bones to pools of suffering, if that were not enough, he felt like his flesh was burning, and the scent of cooked meat and hair filled his very nostrils.Never in the entirety of his existence had Tereth wished for death, but in those horrific moments of agony he prayed for it. As his vampire nature clung to life, it. But I tried to play the odds with her. I knew her routine fairly well, she’d broom the front yard first and then come to the bathroom to wash the clothes and then she’d wash utensils in the kitchen, have the breakfast left out for her and then leave. At that time she was about finished with her broom job and so I made my first move of the seduction plan. I purposefully went to the bathroom and briskly undressed myself to absolute nudity. I left the bathroom door closed but unshut. I think I. Eventually, I was the first to voice my thoughts.“V, did you mean what you said? About wanting this to be our thing? A little piece of me that you have and Jill doesn’t?”She looked at me with a look of mild guilt and embarrassment. “Would that be so bad? So selfish?”Before I realized what I was saying the words came out of my mouth. “I guess not,” but once said I felt a strange closeness to Veronica but a dull ache of guilt towards my absent wife, as if I’d just committed an act of.