Bite of the Vampire

BITE OF THE VAMPIRE BLOOD MOON SERIES BOOK 2 TERRY SPEAR CONTENTS Synopsis Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Terry Spear Bite of the Vampire Copyright © 2023 by Terry Spear Cover Art by Am Design Studios All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Discover more about Terry Spear at: http://www.terryspear.com/ Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63311-092-2 Print ISBN: 978-1-63311-093-9 To Brittany Green who loves wolves and vampires, loves reading, and loves to craft! These roguish vampires are dedicated to you. SYNOPSIS Jasmine has the mission as a rogue vampire assassin to chase down a rogue in Wales. When she meets Stasio, she thinks he could provide a cover for her as her pseudo-boyfriend while she eliminates the rogue. But another assassin, who keeps stealing her missions, thwarts her. The next thing she knows, he claims Stasio is a rogue vampire! No way! Stasio is a Welsh prince escaping the Dallas League of Vampires—with his three prince friends, and a witch, who his friend had turned and is now one of them—to return to their native Wales where they were also considered rogues. They’d tried to overthrow their League centuries earlier, lost their castles, and had fled. Surely, no one would ever think they would return. But then everything is turned upside down and Jasmine is stuck running as a rogue with Stasio and his friends. But that’s not the end of it. When they arrive in Scotland to flee the peril, a group of Scottish vampires want to overthrow their own League and they want the princes to help them. Do they do it and risk it all? Will Jasmine leave them and find her own way? If they help them fight the vampire elders and lose like they did with their own League centuries ago, will they survive this time? These are the questions they have to answer before they get themselves even more over their heads than they already are and lose them this time. 1 On the run again, Stasio, traveling with three other Welsh prince vampires on the flight destined for Wales, who had been friends before the Black Death had turned them, headed back to the bathroom on the plane for the fourth time this trip as streaks of lightning ripped across the sky and more turbulence lifted and dropped the plane. His friend Levka shook his head. Caitlin, a human witch, who had been turned by Levka to save her life, ran her hand over Levka’s dark hair, his dark brown eyes glancing at her before he gave her a small smile. They were together and would be forever, hopefully, if a vampire assassin didn’t terminate them beforehand. Caitlin had used her magic to cloak their presence when they’d landed in Dallas where they were sure Vlad, the vampire who claimed she was his, and his thugs would end up. But Caitlin and her friends had gotten the only flight out to Dallas, the next one hours later. Petroski, a vampire assassin, had missed the Dallas flight also. That had given Caitlin and her party time to make the flight from Dallas, Texas to Cardiff, Wales. They’d had to stop in Atlanta, Georgia, then Amsterdam before they reached Wales, but they’d managed to slip away without getting stopped. She was worried, as they all had been, that Vlad or Petroski might have called on someone in Dallas to apprehend them when they arrived. Either they had, and they hadn’t located them because of her cloaking ability, or they hadn’t because pride wouldn’t allow them to ask for help. Now, thankfully, they were on the last leg of their journey, heading to Wales. The problem was—not that it couldn’t be remedied—they’d lost their luggage by taking a flight to Dallas that they hadn’t planned on taking. The airplane shook again, the turbulence awful, forcing everyone to remain in their seats with their seatbelts on—except for Stasio. Caitlin usually wasn’t bothered by thunderstorms, but this storm was bad, lightning flashing all around them, the rain driving against the windows, the droplets sliding across the glass. The pilot had already diverted them once, trying to move out of the storm’s path but it just seemed to extend forever. Caitlin couldn’t believe she was on the run with the four vampire princes, returning to their own country after taking refuge in the States for centuries. It was mostly because Levka, the leader of the group, had turned her into one of their kind and hadn’t been authorized to do it. She had really cared for the wheelchair bound teen on the cruise when she’d first met him. She’d loved him and his friends who were always there to cheer her up like she’d tried to do for him. What a shock to learn they were all vampires and that he was finally able to heal from his injuries and was no longer confined to a wheelchair. It had been just as much of a shock to them to learn that she was a witch. “What is wrong with Stasio?” Caitlin watched him return to the bathroom for the fifth time, his light blond hair hanging loose around his pale face. It had been sandier colored and pulled back in a tail, but he’d shortened it and lightened it to his natural color to give himself a little different appearance from what it had been to confuse anyone who might be coming after them. “He doesn’t like traveling by plane at the best of times. He can fly, but only when he’s in control of his flying,”