Awakened (The Belladonna Agency Book 2) by Virna DePaul

Author:Virna DePaul [DePaul, Virna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books That Rock
Published: 2019-12-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Club Red

New City, Georgia

Vladimir swung first, catching the beefy contractor off guard. The other man crumpled to the cement floor without a sound. A few hard kicks to the head with a polished, custom-made black boot finished him off.

Tamsin, who had been watching the fight from the shadows, came forward, stepping carefully around the fresh pooling blood. Her stiletto heels clicked against the raw concrete until she reached her lover’s side. She looked up adoringly.

“You still have what it takes,” she purred.

“I would rather not do such things.”

She slipped a hand through the crook of his elbow, smoothing the clingy material of her low-cut scarlet dress with the other. “What did he do anyway?”

“He talked too much.”

“In here?” Tamsin gestured around the small underground arena, which was empty except for them. The space echoed with construction noise from the much larger floor above. “Who would even notice?”

“All it took was one word, my dear. He said yes to an interview with a big Atlanta newspaper. I don’t want our building plans splashed all over the front page.”

“Who cares?”

Vladimir scowled at the offhand question. “I do.”

Tamsin did not have to know about the hidden floor beneath this one—or who was concealed there, though the subterranean cells were mostly empty, except for a wayward girl. And a restless monster. The contractor might have happened upon both, if he had gone beyond the Keep Out sign and somehow made his way through the locked door of the immense, climate-controlled vault where Vladimir stored living things who were apt to be noisy from time to time.

“Oh. Well, what is that saying? Any publicity is good publicity?”

“Dead men never are. And I understand that someone from the paper is still in the parking lot, waiting for this one”—Vladimir used the toe of his boot to push the man’s limp arm against his body—“to show up.”

He put a hand to the earpiece he wore and spoke softly to someone outside. “Get rid of the reporter. No, don’t kill him. Just tell him our construction supervisor is busy. Yes, all day. And give him a guest pass to our grand opening. The elite pass, idiot. We want him in our pocket, do we not? A private skybox plus two whores is something to look forward to.”

Tamsin leaned over a little to get a better look. The contractor’s sightless eyes stared upward, as if he were gauging the strength of the steel beams crisscrossing the space far above a square pit sunk deep into the floor. Then his head slowly tipped to the side as the muscles of his thick neck stretched with its weight.

Vladimir laughed. “He seems to be looking up your dress. Rigor mortis has not set in.”

She gave a ladylike shudder. “Eww. That’s so creepy. All I have on under this is a thong.”

“Since when are you modest? But if it bothers you—” Vladimir looked around and spotted a dirty canvas tarp. “Then cover him up.”

Tamsin sighed but she obeyed, dragging the tarp by a corner and throwing it over the corpse.

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