"Wilson,.David.-.Vampire.Book.2.-.To.Speak.With.Lifeless.Tongues" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wilson David Niall)

standing the soft hairs on end as it passed. She’d
never been so intimately close to a man, not since
her vows had removed her from the mainstream of
life. She felt the magnetic pull of his flesh and
nearly cried out in shame and desire at once.
“Leave me…” she rasped, surprising herself with
the strength of her words. “Return to whatever
shadow spawned you, leave me—us—in peace.”
“I cannot do that, Agnes,” the shadow continued
smoothly. “You mean so very much to me now. I
have learned from you, but I have shared so little.
It is time for you to learn what I have to offer, as
your little sisters have done. You want that, don’t
you, Agnes?”
She turned her head farther away, aware that the
motion bared her throat, and tossed the graying
locks of her hair aside in the same motion, though
she knew it was not proper. There was no touch,
not of breath or of pain. All that she sensed was His
nearness, and it wore away at her control as he
continued to speak.
TO SPEAK WITH LIFELESS TONGUES
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“You pray to a savior who has been too long gone
from the earth,” he said. “You waste your life and
your love on one who will see you only after you
have fallen to dust, if ever. You were a beautiful
woman, Agnes…full of life.”
“I serve my Lord,” she whispered desperately. “I
will stand at his side in Glory, and this will be nothing
but a dark moment in time—a nothingness
without meaning.”
“You are wrong,” he said, laying one hand gently
on her shoulder. “You will still be standing when
he comes again, in the flesh that binds you now,
and he will turn away.”
Then the pain came, the bite of something sharp
penetrating her throat, followed by wave upon
wave of pleasure. She shuddered, and her arms
dropped to her sides in sudden release, then returned
to their grips on the chair. She felt the life
draining swiftly from her aged frame, and she felt
the faith of a lifetime being stolen away. It was too
much.
A small flame still burned within her, a light that
she could make out through the murky haze of sensations
that began where the flesh of his hands
gripped her frail shoulders and radiated out in
waves that threatened to consume her humanity.
Blanking her mind, she ceased her struggles and