well in a long time. Probably a runaway.
A red haze crossed my eyes, and when it cleared, I was furious. I couldn’t stand the thought of these two leeches bringing that poor defenseless girl up here and draining her dry. Her life might not have mattered to anyone else, but suddenly it mattered to me.
Nick had told me to stay behind him.
I had every intention of staying behind him.
Really.
But I didn’t.
Instead, I flew past him in a rage, screaming that same wordless scream I’d howled out when I’d seen Greg dangling from a vampire’s grip.
I wanted them to die. Painfully.
And then they were away from the wall and I was in between them, spinning and dancing and jabbing at them with my stakes.
I don’t think they even ever knew what hit them, really. They had stepped away from the wall to attack us as soon as they realized that the light streaming into the darkened apartment was from a light bulb and not the sun. But instead of jumping us, they found themselves set upon by a screaming banshee with a stake in each hand.
I took the first one out almost instantly. I slammed a stake into his heart, up under the ribcage, just as Nick had shown me. I flipped the other stake from my left hand into my right and turned to face the second vampire.
He grabbed at me, but I swerved away from him and spun back to smash the second stake into his heart, as well.
I stood still for a moment, breathing heavily, looking around for something else to hit with a stake.
The only possible target was Nick, and he was still standing in the doorway, his mouth hanging open in surprise.
I let my hands drop to my sides and stood up straighter.
“They pissed me off,” I said.
“Apparently,” he replied. And then he began to laugh. He laughed so hard that he bent over and held his stomach.
“What?” I growled.
Nick controlled his laughter with some difficulty and looked up at me.
“Yeah,” he said. “You just call me if you ever need backup, okay?”
Nick pulled a cell phone out of his pocket and called his team in to help with the clean-up. When they got there, the three guys looked around.
“Nice place,” Dominick, the shortest of the three, muttered.
“Good kill though,” John said.
“It’s not mine,” Nick said. “It’s hers.” All three of them turned around to stare at me.
“By yourself?” John asked me. “Again?”
“I got angry,” I offered. It sounded lame, even to me.
Dominick let out a low whistle. “Wow.”
Tony didn’t say anything, just looked at me appraisingly.
Nick and I left before the other guys had finished their Merry Maids routine. I wondered what they did with the dead bodies, but I didn’t ask. Nick drove out to the Bronx and dropped me off at my apartment.
“Call me if anything important comes up, okay? See you later, Dixieland.”
“Dixieland?”
“Yeah. You know. New Orleans. Dixieland.” He grinned and waved.
I waved back and went inside, happy to be home. And even happier to know that the first time hadn’t been a complete fluke. I could kill vampires.
It made me feel a little safer.
Chapter 5
A day and a half later, as I got dressed to meet Malcolm Owens, I reminded myself that I wasn’t going on a date. It had been less than two weeks since Greg had turned all evil. I hadn’t even called my mother yet to tell her that Greg and I were… well, that we weren’t anything any longer. Except maybe mortal enemies.
And even if this were a date, the sorts of things I was considering asking him to do for me weren’t the sorts of things one brought up on a first date. I could just hear it now: My fiancé was attacked by vampires, and now he is one, and I keep getting attacked by vampires, and I think the law firm he worked for may know something about it. So what I want you to do is sneak into the law offices, break into their files, and see if you can find out what they know about vampires and my ex. Wait! Where are you going? Come back!
Right. Definitely not
A red haze crossed my eyes, and when it cleared, I was furious. I couldn’t stand the thought of these two leeches bringing that poor defenseless girl up here and draining her dry. Her life might not have mattered to anyone else, but suddenly it mattered to me.
Nick had told me to stay behind him.
I had every intention of staying behind him.
Really.
But I didn’t.
Instead, I flew past him in a rage, screaming that same wordless scream I’d howled out when I’d seen Greg dangling from a vampire’s grip.
I wanted them to die. Painfully.
And then they were away from the wall and I was in between them, spinning and dancing and jabbing at them with my stakes.
I don’t think they even ever knew what hit them, really. They had stepped away from the wall to attack us as soon as they realized that the light streaming into the darkened apartment was from a light bulb and not the sun. But instead of jumping us, they found themselves set upon by a screaming banshee with a stake in each hand.
I took the first one out almost instantly. I slammed a stake into his heart, up under the ribcage, just as Nick had shown me. I flipped the other stake from my left hand into my right and turned to face the second vampire.
He grabbed at me, but I swerved away from him and spun back to smash the second stake into his heart, as well.
I stood still for a moment, breathing heavily, looking around for something else to hit with a stake.
The only possible target was Nick, and he was still standing in the doorway, his mouth hanging open in surprise.
I let my hands drop to my sides and stood up straighter.
“They pissed me off,” I said.
“Apparently,” he replied. And then he began to laugh. He laughed so hard that he bent over and held his stomach.
“What?” I growled.
Nick controlled his laughter with some difficulty and looked up at me.
“Yeah,” he said. “You just call me if you ever need backup, okay?”
Nick pulled a cell phone out of his pocket and called his team in to help with the clean-up. When they got there, the three guys looked around.
“Nice place,” Dominick, the shortest of the three, muttered.
“Good kill though,” John said.
“It’s not mine,” Nick said. “It’s hers.” All three of them turned around to stare at me.
“By yourself?” John asked me. “Again?”
“I got angry,” I offered. It sounded lame, even to me.
Dominick let out a low whistle. “Wow.”
Tony didn’t say anything, just looked at me appraisingly.
Nick and I left before the other guys had finished their Merry Maids routine. I wondered what they did with the dead bodies, but I didn’t ask. Nick drove out to the Bronx and dropped me off at my apartment.
“Call me if anything important comes up, okay? See you later, Dixieland.”
“Dixieland?”
“Yeah. You know. New Orleans. Dixieland.” He grinned and waved.
I waved back and went inside, happy to be home. And even happier to know that the first time hadn’t been a complete fluke. I could kill vampires.
It made me feel a little safer.
Chapter 5
A day and a half later, as I got dressed to meet Malcolm Owens, I reminded myself that I wasn’t going on a date. It had been less than two weeks since Greg had turned all evil. I hadn’t even called my mother yet to tell her that Greg and I were… well, that we weren’t anything any longer. Except maybe mortal enemies.
And even if this were a date, the sorts of things I was considering asking him to do for me weren’t the sorts of things one brought up on a first date. I could just hear it now: My fiancé was attacked by vampires, and now he is one, and I keep getting attacked by vampires, and I think the law firm he worked for may know something about it. So what I want you to do is sneak into the law offices, break into their files, and see if you can find out what they know about vampires and my ex. Wait! Where are you going? Come back!
Right. Definitely not
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