Total pages in book: 64
Estimated words: 62580 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 313(@200wpm)___ 250(@250wpm)___ 209(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 62580 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 313(@200wpm)___ 250(@250wpm)___ 209(@300wpm)
Con didn’t say anything for so long that I thought it was a good idea to question my brother about my job, but Con was just waiting to get his thoughts together before he spoke.
“If you hate it there, I have a position for you that you can have right now.”
Corbin’s eyebrows rose in surprise.
“You’re shitting me,” he said.
Con shook his head.
“No, I’m not shitting you.”
The word ‘shitting’ sounded so odd coming out of Con’s mouth that it was nearly comical.
The only reason I didn’t laugh was because this was a serious conversation, and I could feel myself on the brink of something amazing.
Corbin stood staring at him in stunned silence for so long that I thought I might have to slap him upside of the head.
Luckily he snapped out of whatever had taken his ability for speech.
“It would be better to have me where I am, because if I’m not, someone not so understanding and reasonable might take my place, and that only spells out bad things for the city’s vampire population,” Corbin finally found his tongue.
“I’ll have someone come pick her up,” Constantine said smoothly.
I watched, curious, as Con pulled his phone out of his pocket, unlocked it, and then placed it to his ear after dialing a number.
“Who did you call?”
Constantine pointed to the glass windows behind me. “Go inside.”
I narrowed my eyes.
“It’s for the best, baby sis,” Corbin put in his two cents. “The reporters” —he nodded his head toward the van— “are about to be here, and unless you want to be on the front page of the newspaper with us, you’ll be going in.”
I gritted my teeth.
He knew I hated having my picture taken. Knew that I wouldn’t want to be in the paper, or any photo for that matter.
So instead of standing my ground, I gave Con one last glare and turned on my heel, walking back inside the blood bank all over again and sitting down in the seat that had all the snacks.
Then commenced to glare holes into Con’s back.
All that anger stewed and would’ve overflown had my ride not arrived.
I wasn’t expecting the man that I’d last seen so dead, then revived, followed by a whole lot of out of control, to get out of the car as if nothing was amiss. But when he did, my breath left me in a gasp.
My brothers did, too.
“Holy shit.”
CHAPTER 15
Have you ever considered taking a nap and sleeping right into the next morning? Because that’s a struggle for me on a daily basis.
-Acadia to Con
CONSTANTINE
“Was she well when you left her?” I asked Chen.
Chen, who looked a little flushed after just feeding, nodded his head.
“Yes,” he confirmed. “She was pissed, too. Mad that you didn’t say anything to her before you left. Pissed off at me for not telling her that I was okay, and pissed off in general that she had to go to work with a ‘bunch of racist vampire haters.’”
I found my first grin since she’d left.
“Join us at our meeting,” I suggested to him as I stood up, smoothing my tie down as I did. “It’s going to be at the club.”
Chen’s mouth quirked. “I still don’t understand why y’all work there. It’s loud, distracting, and…”
“A place that allows us to feed our curiosity, thirsts, and need to be around our sheep,” Fox drawled.
Chen turned to stare at Fox. “Your sheep?”
Fox’s mouth twitched. “Wrong word?”
Chen nodded.
“Yes, wrong word,” he agreed. “I think you meant to say ‘citizens.’”
Fox shook his head. “No, I don’t think that I did.”
Chen growled.
“Careful, baby vamp,” Pavlov said as he arrived as if he’d been there the whole time. “You’re not a human anymore. You’re Made. You can offend us all you want because we helped raise you. What you can’t do is offend other Masters of the Dead, or Masters of the City.”
That was true.
Chen had a lot of leeway with us that he wouldn’t have with any other vampires, even the vampires that were part of what I considered mine. He was so new in the city that he hadn’t had a chance to establish his place in the food chain. Though, I had no doubt that he would find his place, soon, and surprise a lot of the others.
He was new, yes, but he was strong to begin with. He had a healthy thirst for knowledge, and he’d been made by me. He had a leg up even before he was Made by the most powerful vampire in the city.
“I don’t know what you mean,” Chen drawled smoothly.
The lie slid from his lips so flawlessly that I had to hide a smile.
He was learning, and had learned, from the best.
“The rest are meeting us at the club,” Pavlov said. “They’ve started their party early.”
I rolled my eyes and walked toward the door, exiting it like a normal human would.