After the Fall: A Vampire Chronicle (Book One) by Gorry Mary Ellen

Author:Gorry, Mary Ellen [Gorry, Mary Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2012-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

Both Caroline and Christian were so lost in their own thoughts and emotions that neither noticed the young woman with the Kool-Aid red hair look up from where she had been sitting on a park bench, pretending to read a newspaper, trying to catch snatches of the heated conversation between them, leave the paper on the bench, get up, and follow them out of the park.

Caroline remained silent the entire way back to the hotel, walking right past Lorenzo without so much as a glance in his direction, seating herself on the sofa in the front room of the suite and turning on the television. Lorenzo looked pointedly at Christian, who gestured with his head for the older priest to follow him into one of the bedrooms. With one backward glance at Caroline, who hadn’t once removed her eyes from the television screen, Christian closed the door and turned to face his mentor.

“I take it things didn’t go very well,” Lorenzo stated, watching as Christian started pacing the small room. He would bet money the boy didn’t realize how clearly his agitation was showing, or how often his eyes kept drifting towards the bedroom door and the young woman sitting behind it.

“That,” Christian answered, “is the understatement of the year.” He stopped pacing and faced Lorenzo, an incredulous look on his face.

“She wants to help us fight vampires.”

“That is ridiculous and impossible,” Lorenzo immediately said.

“That’s what I told her,” Christian spat out, but just as suddenly as his anger appeared, it was gone, and he seemed to deflate, his eyes once again glancing at the door. “That’s why she’s mad at me.”

As much as Lorenzo disapproved of Caroline’s desire to join their cause, he understood it. He would have been disappointed in her character if she had not wanted to avenge her family’s death. However, he also knew that if he and Christian entertained her preposterous idea, she would be dead in no time at all; it was going to be difficult enough to keep her alive as it was. It would be next to impossible to keep her alive if she actively went after the creatures.

“She will get over it,” Lorenzo said, attempting to reassure Christian, aware that he was probably failing miserably. Christian did not look reassured in the least. Lorenzo could sense that Christian was getting extremely attached to the girl, and it concerned him, because as soon as the Master Vampire was killed, or if he decided to leave New York, he and Christian would also be leaving, and they would be leaving Caroline behind. As it was, Christian was becoming too focused on Caroline and helping her, when he should be focused on his job, and nothing else. He could not afford to have friends. The Master Hunter needed as few distractions as possible in his life, and Caroline Gallagher was definitely a distraction.

Christian began pacing again, stopping at the bedroom window and staring out into the world, as if trying to catch a glimpse of the evil running rampant through it.

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