Dark 01 by From the Dark

Author:From the Dark
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The next morning, Jane joined Ravin at a table in the back of a Panera restaurant. Ravin had already taken the liberty of ordering Jane a slice of pie. It was still steaming when she sat down, though Ravin ’s French Silk pie had been reduced to mere crust and a few traces of whipped cream.

“Good to see you again,” Jane said as she sipped the fresh coffee the waitress dropped off for her.

“Drop the small talk, Jane. I just saw you last night. With a vampire.”

“Very perceptive. Oh, that’s right, you have the Sight.”

“Don’t play with me. We’ve been friends too long.”

The waitress stopped to top off Jane’s ice water.

Ravin stretched an arm across the padded bench and tilted a seriously discerning gaze over Jane. “You know, now that we’re sitting here in the daylight, you look good. Much better than you did a week ago. Really good, actually. The country must agree with you, eh? If I didn’t know better, I’d say you look I’ve-been-having-incredible-sex good, but I know you wouldn’t have sex with a vampire.”

Jane lifted a smug smile to her friend. “And how do you know that?”

“Oh, Jane, don’t tell me you’ve been letting that bloodsucker jump you?”

“You make it sound as if I’m a meek woman, who cowers and lets any man do as he wishes with me.”

Ravin sniffed and splayed out her hands. “Does he?” She wore the usual leathers today. Biker gear, Jane supposed.

Imposing, is what it was.

“I probably wanted him before he wanted me.”

No reply, just that all-knowing, judgmental eyebrow lift. It held centuries of pain in that simple move, but Jane wasn’t about to let it get to her. Ravin sighed heavily and nodded to the table. “You going to eat your pie?”

Jane blew on the steam. She liked hot pie. “Soon. Go ahead, order another slice.”

Ravin flagged the waitress and got another slice. Two bites obliterated half the slim slice and Ravin showed no signs of slowing down. “So, we’ve both tagged the same source, which is now a very unusable source thanks to his public persona.”

“I wouldn’t use Michael even if he wasn’t famous.”

Ravin stabbed her pie with the fork. A twist mangled the innards. “Jane, you’re in too deep. This is not acceptable. He’s using you for your magic, there’s no other explanation.”

“And what if I’m using him?” Jane lifted her own challenging eyebrow at her friend. “He’s the reason I’m so glowy.”

“No.” Ravin put up a splayed hand. “Don’t even go there, Jane. I don’t want to hear this.”

“Ravin.”

“Jane.”

Jane leaned across the table, scanned the nearby diners and found none interested in their conversation, and then lowered her voice. “It was purely accidental. Neither of us knew about the other, and then when we were already going at it—”

“I said I don’t want details. Mother of—Bloody hell, are you insane? You are sleeping with a nasty longtooth? A bloodsucker!”

“My mother does it every night.”

“That’s different!” Ravin shoved her empty plate and it clanked against Jane’s water glass.

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