Dante's Awakening by Devon Marshall

Author:Devon Marshall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, (v5.0), Hollywood, Lesbian, Intrigue
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
Published: 2012-05-08T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

After catching a few hours of much needed sleep, I called Roz again at the office, did some more catching up with her and gave her new instructions. There were no immediate crises that needed my attention, which is testimony to how efficient Roz is. That done, I made myself some breakfast. Surprisingly, the hangover that seemed incipient last night was gone completely, like I’d never touched a drop of alcohol or weed. I figured it had something to do with drinking Ellis’s blood. That could get pretty addictive in its own right.

As it turned out, Voshki did not try to put any moves on me during our journey. We drove straight to Holly Bush Junction in the Viper without stopping and she did not once attempt to so much as accidentally-on-purpose brush my knee with her hand as she was shifting gears. Frankly I did not know whether I should be more insulted, disappointed or relieved by this. When we got to Holly Bush Junction, she gave me an explanation…of sorts.

“You’ve chosen Ellis,” she said, leaning on the Viper’s low-slung roof with both forearms and smiling at me in a way that made me feel weak and wanton and imagine all kinds of wicked things. Voshki shrugged. “I respect that. If you change your mind and want me, I’ll be happy. But if you don’t, I’m not going to interfere with your and Ellis’s relationship.”

I stared at her for a moment. “Bullshit. You’re gonna interfere in every damn way you can think of,” I said.

She laughed. “Maybe. But it’s all you’re gonna get from me for now, Dante. Take it or leave it.”

I decided to take it. What the hell. A bellhop rushed out of the hotel and took Voshki’s luggage from the Viper to carry it to her room. He practically simpered over both the car and Voshki, and from the way Voshki encouraged his simpering, I wondered briefly if she had ever been into men at some point in her nearly nine hundred-year existence. That long, you’re going to start thinking about experimenting at least.

Inside, Samson, Ellis and Amelia all were waiting for us in the hotel bar where the proprietor had kindly, but pointlessly, furnished them with coffee and a Continental-style breakfast. They were drinking the coffee but, predictably, the food was untouched. As we entered Ellis’s gaze met mine and I felt her reach into my head, looking for any hint that Voshki and I might have indulged in a spot of wildly abandoned sex on the way here. That my promise had not been enough for her annoyed me, and deliberately I thought sexy thoughts about Voshki to give Ellis the wrong impression. Or I did until Voshki gave me such an odd look that I feared my fantasies were so strong even she might be picking up on them, the spirit if not the letter anyway.

Voshki greeted Amelia with a sisterly warmth touchingly human and, I think, quite genuine. I suppose there

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