Bad Blood: A Vampire Thriller (The Spider Trilogy Book 1) by Rain J.R. & Nicholson Scott & Night H.T

Author:Rain, J.R. & Nicholson, Scott & Night, H.T. [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2011-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I had a bad feeling, and when I have a bad feeling, that’s saying something.

No surprise there. It didn’t take a psychic to get a bad feeling about this place. Sure, it was cheery enough. The commons were brightly lit, with old-fashioned carriage lamps set on posts to augment the moonlight. There was a snack table off to the side, which hadn’t appealed to me because my hunger was of a different kind. There was even a big crystal bowl of punch. Blood red.

Focus, Spider.

Everyone seemed in a state of bliss as Erasmus droned on about how together they were all brothers and sisters, all part of the same world, all children of the clouds. But something was clearly off. I glanced around the perimeter, and now there were big, stocky guys in uniforms circling around like wolves herding sheep. While I didn’t see any of the young disciples making a break for it, or even appearing uneasy, the atmosphere changed slightly, as if Erasmus was about to deliver the real sales pitch.

I realized how vulnerable the group was, softened with promises, removed from their loved ones, isolated from the past they had known. How he had lured these folks up here, I haven’t a clue. Maybe this was a legitimate retreat...for some. Maybe a handful of folks really did leave this place feeling enlightened and alive.

Maybe.

Others, I suspected, were not so lucky. Others, like Parker’s friend, Cindy, in his trunk drained of all blood, never left here again. Alive, that is.

And then I saw something that would have caused my breath to catch in my throat, if I had breath. A prominent politician, a Democratic senator, in fact, had just entered the stage from behind the stone statue. He nodded to a burly security guard, who nodded back. The senator was followed by a celebrity. A very wealthy celebrity famous for his action movies. He, too, stepped in, nodding to the security guard. And it continued like this for the next few minutes. Politicians, prominent business leaders, heads of state, more celebrities, all issuing from behind the little stone wall.

And all of them were looking upon the participants, me included, with only one thing:

Hunger in their eyes.

Yeah, I had a very bad feeling about this place, indeed.

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