Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs, Chapter 4 #10
This week's snippet more from Flowers and Fangs, which is a RONE Finalist for best New Adult tale! Thank you so much to those who voted. This couldn't have happened without you. Now for the second round–the judges will read the stories. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Chapter 5. This is in Sloane's POV.
Quick update from last week: Sloane just clobbered Derek in the head with a coffee cup. In her defense, he told her vampires are real, threatened to stake her, then claimed he wants to save her. What would you do?
We're skipping ahead a few paragraphs in Chapter 5. Derek has gone after Sloane and she's trying to open the gate and escape...
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit. Not this week. 
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She threw the lock on the ground. Her hand held the handle, but before she could unlatch it, she was tackled to the ground.
She struggled and managed to knee her captor. She was rewarded with a grunt, but the guy's arms were made of iron and his grip didn't falter.
"Let me go," she demanded.
"Derek?" another man's voice called from the direction of the house.
Her movements stilled for a moment then she frantically struggled again. If there were two of them, her chances of escape were becoming slimmer.
"Stop it," Derek hissed in her ear as he clamped a hand over her mouth.
********************************************************************Guess the brothers have arrived. Now what?
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Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he's been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
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Of course he doesn’t want to be found, not with the woman he should have been staking and dusting. I doubt that the other :hunters” would be a sympathetic to her.
Chelle,
You are right, his brothers wouldn’t be too pleased.
Great snippet–can’t wait to see what she does now.
Nancy,
So glad you’re intrigued.
This is definitely becoming a complex situation. Great snippet, and congratulations! 😀
Amy,
It sure is.
She’s perceptive, so I hope she figures out that he’s trying to help her. Great snippet as always.
Joyce,
She’s getting there… sort of. lol
I hope he can pull this off!
Christina,
Have faith.
I’m so glad his instinct seems to be to protect her. Enjoying the story, another excellent snippet. Congratulations on the RONE Final and best wishes in the next round.
Veronica,
Thanks so much. Congrats to you also!
He’s risking a lot. Good tension, Karen.
Congrats on the RONE finalist! Good luck on the next round. 🙂
Teresa,
Thanks so much.
Looks like the stakes (no pun intended) just got raised…
PT,
lol- yes, they have.
Yep, if they’re found she’ll be staked for sure! She better be quiet.
Caitlin,
She might want to listen to him right now.
Hope she cooperates, at least for now. Good snippet. Tweeted.
Elizabeth,
She better. His brothers have no heartfelt connection toward Sloane.
Great snippet–glad the brothers are there. Hope this works for him.
Nancy,
Not so much. Derek wants to save the girl, but his brothers…not so much.
It sounds as though the newcomer might represent an opportunity for her to escape. I’m not sure that’s a good thing, though.
Ed,
Escape wouldn’t be good for anyone.
Uh oh. I think things just got worse.
Well done on the RONE recognition, Karen.
I’m with PT about those stakes!
Kim,
Thank you. 🙂
I’m with Chelle … the others might not be so undecided as he is. I hope she listens
Iris,
She better. 🙂
Such a tease of a snippet! Seems like opposing forces are at work!
Rachel,
So glad you enjoyed the snippet.
I’m pretty sure another vampire hunter would wander why she isn’t dead yet.
Uh oh. Things are getting crazy.
Oh now I wonder why he didn’t want to be heard by the other man calling for him. This is going to turn rather interesting, great snippet.
Congrats on the becoming a finalist, too!