From the Blood: When Vampires Hunt (A Paranormal Romance Novelette)

By Natasha Duncan-Drake

Hades recreated himself as a vampire hunter after nearly dying at the hands of the blood suckers. New name, new life, new found-family. However, when an operation goes wrong, he learns that some legends are true, and some vampires are a lot more complicated than he thought they were. He is offered life or death and it will cost him everything to decide.
A Gay Paranormal Romance - LGBTQ+

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wittegen Press
• Release date: Jan 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215119921

Natasha Duncan-Drake

Natasha is a British author with Wittegen Press and has been publishing genre fiction since 2011. Her work includes everything from horror to young adult fantasy and she has never met a genre she didn’t like. A prolific producer of short stories and novels alike, Natasha currently has over twenty five titles in her back catalogue with further releases always imminent.Natasha has been writing since she was a young girl ever since she read The Hobbit at Primary School. She is a big fan of science fiction, fantasy and horror in all their forms and is a big advocate of fanfiction as a great tool for writers to polish their skills in a welcoming and supportive community.Before establishing Wittegen Press with her twin sister, Sophie Duncan, Natasha was a database and systems consultant. She combines these skills with her writing to create and manage her career in the bold new eBook market.

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From the Blood

When Vampires Hunt

A Paranormal Romance Novelette

Natasha Duncan-Drake

From the Blood Copyright © 2023 by Natasha Duncan-Drake. All Rights Reserved.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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To vampire lovers everywhere, whether your favourite fanged fiend is evil, sexy, sparkly, or something else entirely, may your bloodsuckers of choice always bring you joy.

Contents

Chapter 1 – An Unexpected Misfortune

Chapter 2 – A Gift of Blood

Chapter 3 – Hunger

Chapter 4 – Talking & More

Chapter 5 – Old Friends?

Chapter 6 – To Be Different

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Chapter 1

An Unexpected Misfortune

VAMPIRE HUNTER WAS NOT A CAREER Hades had chosen. It was more he had fallen into it. Sometimes he regretted his life choices.

Taking six bullets to the chest had not been part of his plan for the evening, but then a lot lately seemed to be going that way.

This was supposed to have been an easy target. A club where vampires hung out in small numbers. Hades had gone in as the scout, given that he could spot a vampire at twenty paces. Once upon a time he’d been a normal human, oblivious to the dark underworld that carried on in the shadows. He’d had a different name, a normal job, and a family.

Kidnapped, used as a blood donor, kept alive by small amounts of vampire blood. It had changed him. He’d been only just the right side of alive when he’d been rescued. Recovery had been long and hard, but it had left him with a few advantages. Like his sensitivity to the undead.

He’d gone up to the huge vampire he’d seen sitting alone at the bar, and started to flirt, while making sure to scan the whole place with the camera on his lapel. His team had had no plans to raid the bar or anything stupid like that. Their MO was to scout and pick off vamps after they left. However, ending up in the middle of a vampire squabble had sent those plans completely south.

That was how Hades had ended up lying on his back trying to convince his lungs that air was better than blood.

Bullets didn’t kill vampires, but they hurt like hell, did kill human hangers on, and made a point. Clearly one group of bloodsuckers was sending a message to another, and unfortunately, Hades had been right in the path of their chosen method. He’d never been shot before, and frankly, it was an experience he would much rather have skipped.

He hadn’t tasted blood that clearly since he’d been a blood donor slave, and he knew that was bad. The world was swirling in his vision, so he squeezed his eyes shut.

Don’t die on me, were the words that brought him back from the edge.

Opening his eyes in shock he stared up to