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    Nico: An Origins Story
    Nico: An Origins Story
    Nico: An Origins Story
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    Nico: An Origins Story

    By Shannon Bell

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    Nico as we know him is the one who saved Dylan from being killed in Italy for knowing too much about the existence of vampires. Where did he come from? What is his background. This short story explains Nico's origins story as it pertains to how he became a key player in The Mortal One Series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Bell
    Release dateMay 14, 2016
    ISBN9781310345333
    Nico: An Origins Story
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    Shannon Bell

    Shannon Bell is a Florida-based author who is happily married to the man of her dreams and a spitfire of a daughter. She has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. She travels frequently and loves wine, and finds that the two are not mutually exclusive. She's also in love with tales that go bump in the night, especially if they happen to involve hot vampires. When she's feeling particularly naughty, she writes under the pen name of Bella Bordeaux.

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      Nico - Shannon Bell

      Nico: An Origins Story

      The Mortal One Series

      Shannon Bell

      Nico: an Origins Story

      Copyright © 2016 by Shannon Bell

      All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Book design by Shannon Bell

      Nico: An Origins Story

      The Mortal One Series

      Chapter 1

      It was 1747 in Firenze and the world was just starting to open itself to me. I was thirty years of age and felt like there was so much to discover. My parents were wealthy and this made it possible for me to do as I pleased. They believed in hard work, so there were limits to just what I could do. I was trained as an architect and this allowed me to have more money to use as I pleased. Building was something I enjoyed and my hope was that I could leave my mark on the world. Never did I dream that I would be around to see it two hundred years later, but I get ahead of myself.

      In my early twenties, my parents sent me to train under a descendent of Gianlorenzo Bernini. I spent three years in Rome and another two years traveling throughout the Umbria region. That is

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