All Hallows Heartbreaker by Delilah Devlin

Author:Delilah Devlin [Delilah Devlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781843606604
Publisher: Jasmine Jade
Published: 2009-10-31T13:00:00+00:00

After returning home to change, Emmy was late for work. And the day only got worse.

Work dragged. The lack of sleep the night before left her muzzy-headed. Numbers blurred. She snapped at a co-worker. Her fingers hit the wrong keys. Errors inside errors appeared in much of what she entered all day.

Frustrated after reentering a long column of numbers, she decided to close down her computer and leave.

Worse than putting in a rotten day’s work, she’d been grumpy all day. Mad at herself for not having the courage to grab for the gusto. She’d gone back and forth, trying to decide whether she should risk her heart and go after her bad boy vampire, or save herself the heartache and run now.

Leaving her office in the back of the store, she walked through Ladies Garments, where a cloud of warring perfume made her head ache. In Housewares, a saleswoman who normally staffed the children’s section looked bored as she helped a customer choose a blender.

Emmy waited patiently. She’d been worried all day about Monica. She hadn’t shown up for her shift, and she hadn’t answered her calls. Ever an optimist, Emmy hoped Dylan was wrong about her friend.

The saleswoman finished with her customer and walked toward her. “Still haven’t heard a thing. Are you going over to her place to make sure everything’s okay?”

“I’m headed there now.”

Emmy drove the short distance to Monica’s apartment, noting with a healthy dose of worry that the sun was already slipping behind the horizon. Dylan had to be wrong about Monica. Even if Monica were a bloodsucker, she wouldn’t harm her best friend.

Emmy had to know for sure what had happened to her friend. For all she knew, Monica might be injured and in need of help. Emmy’s eyes could have been playing tricks on her the previous evening. Maybe Monica had played a joke, dressed in a vampire mask. It was something free-spirited Monica would do.

Besides, everything about last night seemed like a dream. Too frightening to believe. Perhaps, she’d been caught up in some sort of mass hysteria.

Hell, if weren’t for the pleasant ache between her legs, she might have convinced herself that Dylan had been a dream.

She let herself into the apartment with a spare key. Nothing looked out of place. Or at least nothing more than usual. Monica was a slob. “Monica?” she called out.

No response. She walked deeper into the apartment and headed down the hallway to the bedroom.

A part of Emmy was relieved to see Monica stretched across the bed, her hair in disarray, still wearing the same tank and jeans she’d worn the previous evening.

Remembering Dylan’s warning, Emmy picked up a red spiked heel from the floor and walked toward the bed. “Monica?”

Monica’s head lifted from the mattress. “Em? That you?” Her voice sounded raspy. But normal. A red line marked her face—an imprint from the wrinkled sheet. Monica’s gaze dropped to the shoe in Emmy’s hand. “Are you here to borrow my heels?”

That bit of normalcy eased Emmy’s apprehension.

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