Blood and Needles by Billy Lyon

Author:Billy Lyon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Intrigue Publishing
Published: 2016-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

14

“I’m so sorry you had to go through all that,” Steven said. “I know I haven’t known you for very long and that you don’t have any reason to believe me, but I promise I could never do anything so horrible to you.”

“I do believe you, Steven,” Anna Marie said, kissing his bare chest. “And I know I can trust you. That’s one of the reasons why I chose you.”

“What are some of the other ones?”

She reached under the covers and took him in hand. “Well, this is one of them…”

Steven playfully pushed her away. “Oh no, you don’t. As much as I like your hand where it is, you can’t start a story as wild as the one you’ve been telling and then just stop. I want to hear the rest before the sun forces us to go to bed, or should I say to coffin. We’re already in bed.”

“Okay, party-pooper, I’ll finish. It’s funny, but somehow reliving everything that happened all those years ago makes me feel better. Is that weird?”

“Not at all. Sigmund Freud called it catharsis, and it’s generally thought to be a pretty good thing. But you’ve got to pick up the pace. The Cliff Notes version from here on out. “What did you do to the Asians?”

“There was a public execution, and all but two were drawn and quartered.”

“Ouch! “Remind me to never piss you off,” Steven said.

Anna Marie laughed, which relieved Steven greatly. Reliving so many horrific events couldn’t be easy.

“So you let two live,” Steven said. “Let me guess. One of them was the hot Asian chick.”

“How’d you guess?”

“I saw you back there at the party, remember? My little vampire queen is quite the freak.”

Anna Marie tried her best to look righteously indignant. “Hey, it was the blood lust!”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blame it on the blood. So the girl lived, but who else?”

“Oh, nobody important. Just some guy I picked at random. I sent him packing with orders to tell everyone back home what had come of their plan, and what would happen if they tried it again.”

“Good call,” Steven said, genuinely impressed.

“It must have been,” Anna Marie laughed. “There’s not one single Panda Express within five hundred miles of modern-day Cairo.”

“That’s true, but hurry up and tell me what happened with Little China Girl. Chop-Chop!”

“A pun, Steven? Please tell me you didn’t just use a pun.”

“I didn’t just use a pun,” Steven said with the straightest face he could muster.

“And not just a pun, but a pun/ethnic slur combo! Is it too late to get out of this relationship?”

“Way too late. You already dropped the I love you bomb.”

Anna Marie poked him in the chest. “You said it first.”

“That I did. It’s something you’re going to have to get used to. Me being first.”

“Like hell I will. Okay, here’s what happened.”

Steven pointed out the window.

“I know the Cliff Notes version.”

Anna Marie snuggled down deep into his chest and fell into the past one final time. Steven drew her close and held on for the ride.

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