A Thirst for Darkness: Midnight Vampires Book One by Vivian Casey

Author:Vivian Casey [Casey, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wilton Blake
Published: 2023-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

17

My phone rang while I was unpacking the gorgeous-gorgeous-gorgeous “casual” outfit Michael had sent over, which consisted of a buttery soft leather skirt, clingy cashmere sweater, suede ankle boots, and black tweed clutch by Seraphim Blythe, plus pavé diamond hoop earrings by David Yurman. Criminy, what must this get-up have cost? I wondered. Easily more than all the clothes in my and Liz’s closets combined.

I groaned when I saw who was calling. Leave it to Nick to sully something so beautiful.

“What do you want?” I snarled once I answered. “Or rather, what’s so important, Nick, that you’ve felt entitled to call me five million times within the last twenty-four hours?” And send a dick pic.

He replied with a sob.

If I rolled my eyes any harder, they’d detach from their sockets. Why wasn’t I born a witch so I could magically make him forget he ever knew me? Or turn him into a toad. “Oh, for the love of—”

“I miss you, Olivia! I miss you so much!”

I rubbed my temples, silently chanting don’t take his bait, don’t take his bait, don’t take his bait.

“I made a stupid mistake! I’m only human.”

No, Nick, a stupid human mistake is knocking the saltshaker over at the dinner table or taking a parking spot when you didn’t realize somebody was already waiting for it, not putting your penis in other women while you’re in a relationship. I picked at a hangnail, noting that my nail polish was chipped, and exhaled scornfully for his benefit. Funny to think that a few months ago I would have been the one crying hysterically, wallowing in bed all day, staring up at the celling, depressed.

But now? I genuinely felt nothing for Nick beyond annoyance, which only went to show that life does get better if you can manage to hold on to your sanity when the road gets rocky—i.e., when you walk in on your live-in boyfriend jackhammering some floozy he’d picked up at a bar. Though, had anyone tried to tell me this at the time, I probably would have punched them in the face for being so optimistic. I was in a bad, bad, place back then, more so after Tilly passed. Nick’s disappearing act had only made everything shittier, though now I could see the bullet I’d dodged by getting him out of my life.

I said, “I really don’t have time for this. So, if you could get to the point—”

“I need you, baby!”

Baby?

“That’s rich!” I snorted, unable to help myself. “Because when I needed you, you couldn’t spare two minutes to return any of my calls.”

“I know, I was such a dick! I’m a big enough man to admit it,” he said, as if he was somehow being magnanimous. “I’ve seen the light, Olivia. I messed up bad!”

Did he seriously say I’ve seen the light? What a tool.

“The only thing you’ve seen, Nick, is a newspaper article that showed me out with another man. Now you’re jealous and—what—you expect for me to come crawling back

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