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    Tribute to the Sacred Waters: Blood Waters 2
    Tribute to the Sacred Waters: Blood Waters 2
    Tribute to the Sacred Waters: Blood Waters 2
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    Tribute to the Sacred Waters: Blood Waters 2

    By Eve Hathaway

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    From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Witching Call, Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, Ralph's Gift, Song of Teeth, Children of Time, Chains of Darkness, Season of Love, Friend Zone, The Magaram Legends, The Night Sculptor Series, Requiem for a Dream, and now, Blood Waters...

    HE IS MORE THAN HE CAN REMEMBER—AND MORE THAN SHE CAN EVER IMAGINE
    IN THE SURFACE OF THE SACRED WATER LIES THE TRUTH

    The hints that Tomas is more than meets the eye are becoming more and more obvious, but there is nothing that Mila can do about it.

    A research team has come to their B&B for the sole purpose of researching the sacred cenotes of the Yucatan peninsula where humans were once sacrificed to gain the blessing of the gods, and Mila and Tomas have been drafted along as helpers. But as they go deeper into the jungle, Tomas begins to see familiar surroundings and his memories begin to return, revealing a strange and twisted life—and finally, his death as a human sacrifice. But why him?

    Before Mila and Tomas can uncover more, they are ambushed by the very same tribe that tried to drown him. They are taken to the priest as prisoners to await their fate....

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    “Tomás,” Mila whispered. She crept over to his hammock, where she could see him brooding about something. “Tomás.”

    He looked at her, his eyes liquid pools of light in the night.

    “You must help out more, Tomás,” she said.

    “I remember more,” he whispered. “I was pure.”

    “What do you mean, Tomás?” Mila asked, almost crying with frustration. “You don’t help us, you’re not making any sense—”

    “I was ready,” he said. “I was trained—trained to drown, to accept the pain, to let the water inside me. I was pure. And yet—” He stopped.

    In the darkness, she felt his hand on hers. “Tomás, you must stop this,” Mila pleaded. “We can talk about this when we get back.”

    “It doesn’t make sense,” he said. His grip on her hand tightened. He wasn’t listening to her. He was caught up in his memory again, the memory he once tried so hard to find and was now trying to escape. “I was beaten almost every day, starved to the point of madness. And yet, they wouldn’t kill me. I had to be drowned but the snakes... they were there, they wouldn’t let me...”

    “You’re not making any sense, Tomás,” Mila said. “Please, stop.”

    “I’m not making sense because nothing makes sense,” Tomás said, rolling up to a sitting position. “Oh, Mila, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to scare you. But there were snakes in the cenote and they released me, and pulled me—”

    “It didn’t happen like that,” Mila hissed.

    “But it did,” Tomás said. “Just like in Cancún.”

    Other Books in the Series:

    1. Borne from the Sea

    3. Kin to the Sky Serpents

    4. God in the Wild

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandra Ross
    Release dateNov 6, 2013
    ISBN9781310353734
    Tribute to the Sacred Waters: Blood Waters 2

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      Tribute to the Sacred Waters - Eve Hathaway

      Tribute To The Sacred Waters

      By Eve Hathaway

      Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

      SmashWords Edition

      All contents copyright (C) 2014 by Publications Circulations LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this document or the related files may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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      Chapter One

      WHAT HAPPENED IN Cancun?

      It was all Mila had been asked since she and Tomas returned from the city, only now it came from her mother. The answer, though, still hadn't gotten any easier. What happened indeed? Mila thought. She had tried, for the hundredth time, to explain. Again, her mind failed her.

      We keep hearing about something crazy-the snakes...

      What took place on that day could not be explained simply. Words eluded her. Even a week after they got back-or fled Cancun, depending on one's perspective-Mila could not bring herself to describe what had happened when they were there.

      The day had begun innocently enough. She and Tomas got into the Jeep and drove the forty miles to the city. Tomas apologized, she accepted and by the time they arrived in Cancun, the icy silence had melted into lukewarm awkwardness. Things still weren't quite back to how they had been but it had been just a matter of time.

      At first, things had gone well. Mila bought the things her mother and father had put on the list, ordered what she had to from the suppliers and bought mangoes with chili and salt for herself and Tomas to snack on while they went to the beach.

      In all the time Tomas had lived with the Alvarezes, he had never tried to go swimming and he didn't think he knew how to swim. Still, under Mila's gentle prodding, he agreed to let her buy him a cheap swimsuit-a scandalously scanty and electric-blue Speedo knock-off-and try to at least float on the water. Mila got changed into her bikini and they entered the blue waters, giggling nervously and holding hands, like any other teenage couple.

      Mila eased Tomas into a floating position when they reached waist-high water. And then the riptide came. A powerful current suddenly rose and swept them out to sea.

      It seemed to have come from nowhere-one minute they were floating in the calm blue waters, the next they were clinging to each other as the water churned around them and dragged them away from the shore. It was all Mila could do to keep Tomas's head above water-Tomas had gone catatonic (from the shock, Mila supposed, in retrospect) as soon as they were in deep water. Mila wasn't worried about herself-she knew what to do against a riptide. But swimming while pulling more than her own body in dead weight was almost impossible.

      They were drifting fast, faster than she had thought was possible from a riptide. That just meant she had to get swimming. She shook Tomas, trying to get him to snap out of it, so that he could at least help her by floating.

      He responded by getting yanked under the waves.

      Mila panicked. She couldn't see him. She was a good swimmer but diving was a different story, never mind diving in the open ocean. The whining buzz of the lifeguard's Jet Ski approached and she waved frantically. He tossed her the buoy and told her to hang on.

      We can't leave now! she screamed. My boyfriend is- She gestured in the water.

      What? he asked.

      He's down there! she sputtered. "I don't know what happened. I was trying to get him

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