04 Bad Blood-The Blood Coven by Mancusi Mari

Author:Mancusi, Mari [Mancusi, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampiros
Published: 2010-03-22T06:00:00+00:00

“I‟m so sick of these ridiculous auditions!” she whines, snapping her gum loudly.

“Can‟t we just rent one of those call girls for, like, an hour or so on Saturday? Just have them walk onstage? “I mean, Mina doesn‟t even have any lines. She just has to cross the stage, fall into Dracula‟s arms, and allow herself to be bitten. So as long as the girl isn‟t, like, a paraplegic or something, we should be good. And even then—she‟s bound to have some sort of wheelchair access, right?”

“Please. You know very well what a picky bastard Cornelius is, Allegra,”

Mustache boy—Eric, I guess—reminds her. “Think about how many Minas we‟ve brought him over the last year who try and fail to meet his high expectations. You think he‟s going to be cool with some hooker—or a paraplegic for that matter—

playing his precious Mina? Yeah right. He said he wants someone innocent looking. Completely naïve and virginal, remember? Like Britney Spears, premental meltdown.”

“Exactly! There‟s a slew of schoolgirl-style call girls out there!”

“Yeah? How many of them will work for ten dollars an hour?”

She groans. “God, I totally picked the wrong profession, didn‟t I?”

“You‟re not going to suddenly pull a Sasha on us, are you ‟Legs?” Jayden butts in, causing my ears to perk up. “Leave us Lucy-less as well as Mina-less?”

“Um, no, thank you. That would mean I‟d have to hook up with Cornelius. Can I just say, „Bleh?‟ I mean, have you guys ever smelled his breath?”

Eric fashions his hands into claws and looms over Allegra, baring his teeth.

“Hello, my pretty. I vant to suck your blood!” he hisses in a completely overdramatic, stereotypical vampire voice. Allegra swats back at him, giggling.

“In your dreams, vamp boy wannabe!” she cries, pushing him back into his seat.

“You‟d better keep your mortal day job.”

“Come on, guys,” Jayden cuts in, interrupting their play. “Let‟s just keep moving. Get the next person onstage.”

The other two groan in unison.

“Next!” Jayden calls out loudly, ignoring the both of them.

There‟s a rustling behind the curtain and a moment later a woman steps onstage. She‟s old enough to be my grandmother, complete with leathery, over-tanned skin, fried from too many years in the Vegas sun. A poster child for why not to go tanning, but probably not what they‟re looking for when it comes to Mina.

“NEXT!” Jayden cries.

The woman stumbles off stage.

“This is pathetic!” Eric mutters. “I‟m going to kill Sasha if I ever see her again. Leaving us in the lurch like this. Not even so much as a good-bye.”

My ears perk up at the mention of Sasha again. Unfortunately, at that moment a piece of dust tickles my nose, making me sneeze. The three auditioners turn in their seats to look at me. Busted! I sheepishly rise to my feet.

“We‟re closed, if you didn‟t notice.” Allegra sniffs, narrowing her eyes at me.

“Unless you want to audition,” adds Eric, in a hopeful voice.

“Um,” I glance at them, then at the exit, wondering if I should just make a hasty retreat. But no.

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