Catastrophe by Liz Schulte

Author:Liz Schulte [Schulte, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

True to his word, Corbin waited, half sitting on my car with his legs stretched out in front of him and crossed at the ankles. As soon as I was close, he stood up. “You know where he is.”

I nodded. “As of a few minutes ago.”

“Take me to him and I will tell Paolo you caught him for us. That should be enough to appease him.”

I held up a hand for him to wait as I opened my car door and got inside, leaning across the seat and unlocking the passenger side. “I will give you Thomas, but I have conditions.”

“What?” he asked.

“You hold him for twelve hours. I need to solve the case I am working on, and he might be the key to that process. Once the time has passed…” The words were hard to force out. “Do what you have to do.”

“You will never make it through the night. Paolo will find and kill you. Just give him Thomas now and be done with it. I will personally vouch for you with the vampires.”

I shook my head. “I’ll talk to Paolo. I’ll go to the garage to see him; he has to respect that. I’ll tell him that I need Thomas for the next twelve hours, but will accept you as his vampire guard. After that time, I will relinquish all hold on him. That’s the best deal I can offer. I have to do what I was sent here to do.”

“He’ll want to know who sent you,” Corbin said.

I smiled, more to myself than at him. “Then he can call Sy himself, because that will have nothing to do with me.”

Corbin rolled his eyes. “What? Did he get your drink wrong? Why are you mad? I thought the two of you were…” He shrugged.

“This isn’t my game and these aren’t my rules. I am simply playing by them.” His head turned quickly toward me. I met his eyes. “Take it or leave it.”

“We’ll take it,” he said. “I’ll go with you to see Paolo. You’ll have a better chance of making it out alive. Any chance the Angel of Death could make an appearance? I think it would go a long way to strengthening your case.”

I shook my head. “Not unless things look dire.”

“At least there’s a plan B,” he mumbled.

I drove directly to the garage door as Corbin instructed and waited for it to open. The hundreds of vampires from before were gone now, probably scouring the city for me. Slowly the door lifted, groaning in response.

“Nervous?” he asked.

“No,” I lied.

He smiled. “I can hear your heart beating.”

I took a few deep breaths, slowing it down. If Corbin could hear, they’d all be able to. I couldn’t show any fear or weakness. They’d eat me alive. My jaw tightened at the fifteen to twenty vampires who waited inside with Paolo in the center of all of them.

Corbin didn’t take his eyes off Paolo, but he spoke under his breath. “The nicer he seems, the worse it is.

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