Dressed to Slay by Harper Allen

Author:Harper Allen [Allen, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9781552546659
Google: E1kTlh1L8TAC
Amazon: B000MAH9AM
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I know what you’re thinking. Whoa, Meg-baby, a little bit of a one-eighty without any warning, no? One minute you’re all “Mikhail’s tight butt” and “Van Ryder’s bedroom eyes” and the next minute you’re in let-me-count-the-ways mode with a female. What’s up with the no-foreshadowing, girlfriend, and are you bi or gay or what?

Okay, point taken, and to answer your questions in order: sorry, sorry again, I can see how it would seem that way, and excuse me all to hell for not foreshadowing, but my reaction to Zena wasn’t foreshadowed to me, either.

And as for your bi/gay/straight question? I’m boringly straight. All right, when I was fifteen I had a dream one time about Christina Aguilera, but that was it, and in my dream we decided to be just friends.

So when Zena looked deep into my eyes and called me her beautiful darling, there was no way my heart should have gone pitty-pat, given that she was a vampire as well as being female. I knew that. I knew I was in the dangerous presence of a glamyr a hundred times more powerful than any Dean or Cherry had been able to conjure up, and that Zena’s glamyr had to be what was fogging my synapses into making me think I was falling for her. But all I could see was her white skin and her teasing red lips and her incredible emerald eyes.

“I…I guess there’s nothing so wrong with being a total bitch,” I said as she gave the handle of the whip another tug. I spun around, the lash uncoiling from my body, and when I came to a stop I grabbed the chrome pole in front of me to keep from falling to the stage. I shook my head to clear it. “No, wait a minute,” I said more strongly. “There’s a lot wrong. For one thing, you killed Cherry, and for another, you killed my mother!”

We were no longer face to face, but a few feet apart. As my hand moved toward the letter opener I’d dropped into my pocket after staking Cherry, I heard three sharp cracks and instantly felt three hot bee stings: one on either arm and a third on my stomach. Just as I was wondering in distracted anger where the bee had come from and where the little sucker had gone, I heard a roar of approval from beyond the glaring footlights.

“Is partial revealing of charms, my friends.” Zena gave a mocking bow to the room. “More to come, I promise.”

As she spoke I glimpsed Van Ryder again. No longer hampered by bouncers, his struggle to reach the stage was still being impeded by the press of the crowd. Our gazes locked, and just for a second I forgot Zena, the drunks and everything else that should have been occupying my attention right then. The sudden flare of heat in his dark brown eyes seemed to indicate that he was having an identical lapse of memory.

Then his expression hardened and he resumed his attempts to make his way through the crowd.

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