Astrid Cooper - Monsters InK 2 - Vampire For Hire by Astrid Cooper

Author:Astrid Cooper [Cooper, Astrid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Bas rarely attended parties, or other forms of human gathering. The jostling bodies and their scents and needs and fears made for an unhappy vampire. He needed space. He didn’t need complications that inevitably arose when surrounded by humans. Perhaps he was getting old. He was four hundred years, after all.

But Matthew had asked him to his party and with his searing kiss sweetening the invitation—how could a vampire refuse? So, he paused outside the cottage, hearing the laughter and the thrum of music. Well, what passed for music in the twenty-first century.

He rang the doorbell and after a few minutes someone yanked the door open. Matthew stood there, dressed in a green silk shirt and black denims and boots. The green highlighted his eyes. Bas tried not to notice. And failed.

Matthew held out his hand. “You came?”

“Did you doubt it?”

“You never know about a vampire.” Matthew grinned

and took Bas’s hand in a sure, warm grip. He dragged Bas into the passageway. The thick wall of human scents hit Bas and he closed down his senses. Matthew was more than enough distraction. Bas held out the bottle of champagne.

“Bollinger?”

“Only the best.”

The atmosphere electrified as they stared at each other.

Matthew dropped his hand.

“Come through, meet the gang.”

He followed Matthew, watching the way his denims

hugged his tight arse, rode the length of his legs with that unique walking grace that would make a Familiar proud. The room he was ushered into was lit dimly, by red candles in ornate black candelabra.

Matthew whistled for silence and all attention riveted upon him, gazes flickering to Bas. “Our latest Monster, everyone. Sebastian de Seville.” Monster. They exchanged a conspiratorial smile. Matthew took him by the arm and led him to each person, making introductions. Bas’s vampire instincts caught individual scents and stored them in his brain, alongside names.

There was a rich assortment of men and women, young, old, some dressed casually, others exotically. Bas had dressed down for the occasion, favouring black levis, a black silk shirt and his Italian boots. With his dark hair tied back in a black velvet thong, it was his vampire sense of the dramatic to appear like a shadow, all darkness, no light.

Matt halted before a man dressed in a black pin-striped suit, and wearing thick, horn-rimmed glasses.

“Bas, this is the company lawyer, Ray O’Connor. Ray’s been used to Monsters all his life. His dad was our lawyer before he retired.”

They shook hands.

“Pleasure to meet you Mr de Seville.”

“Thank you. My pleasure, too.”

Matt linked his arm in Bas’s and led him away. “I know what you’re thinking. The guy’s a geek.”

“No, I was thinking that he’s repressed. His voice had an undercurrent of sex, but he stands like he’s got a rod up his arse.”

“Some people pay good money for that sort of penetration.”

“If you visit Madam Lash.”

Matt laughed. “Ray’s a good friend. I’m pretty sure he knows more about us all than he lets on, but he’s discreet and a bloody good lawyer.”

“Yes, now—”

“So you’re the vampire Matt’s been enthusing about?” Came a woman’s throaty voice and Bas turned.

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