Salvation

By Vivi Dumas

Darius set out tonight to meet his end. Instead of meeting true death and seeing the sun for one last time, he stumbles upon a reason to live. Will he be able to sacrifice her soul to save himself? And will he risk going back to the one person he desperately wanted to escape, to help his mate through the change?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Oct 30, 2010
• ISBN: 9781936394340

Vivi Dumas

Although Vivi Dumas grew up an Army brat, she calls Louisiana home, but have endured the hot summers and cold winters of Maryland for the last 16 years. She is a graduate of Mount St. Mary’s University with an MBA in Finance and Marketing. Her analytical side has honed a career in the financial industry for almost twenty years. To balance her logical, numerical day job, she unleashes her creativity in her writing. Vivi pens multicultural paranormal romance, mixing the two genres she loves. Her steamy paranormal romances indulge in worlds inhabited by demons, werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural beings. She has published works with Decadent Publishing, Ravenous Romance, and Breathless Press.

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Salvation

By Vivi Dumas

Smashwords Edition Copyright © 2010 by Vivi Dumas

ISBN: 978-1-936394-34-0

Cover art by Dara England

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DEDICATION

To my girl Rebecca L. who challenged me to write something outside my norm

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Salvation

Darius considered himself a special kind of evil.

Salvation drew him to this spot. The silver body harness burned into his torso as he perched on St. Patrick’s steeple, contemplating his end. The harness was a part of him now—only a faint lapping of heat upon his chest. Like a moist blanket, the air warmed his icy blood. As one of the only two left of his kind, isolation, pain and misery absorbed his passion for life. After a millennia of bondage and slavery to the Queen, his mind refused to support his body’s limitless power. Dawn would break in three hours. The bright salvation of the sun’s rays beckoned him. So, he sat and waited for the sun, a sun that had been hidden from him for over a thousand years.

Only a few people occupied this part of town at this hour, not like Bourbon Street where the mobs swarmed all hours of the day and night. He watched the humans below, carrying on with their menial lives. Their limited existence gave them the ability to flourish. The constraints of human life provided an appreciation for living. After several hundred years, Darius’s appreciation for the beauty in the world wore thin, especially tapered with the death and destruction in dark