Drop Dead Gorgeous by Suki McMinn

Author:Suki McMinn [McMinn, Suki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Derek stayed with Clara until she fell asleep. They’d had sex again after Terence left and this time, he was able to heal her bite marks immediately. Why hadn’t someone told him about that? Fuck. He always felt like he was missing his instruction manual.

He watched her sleeping and wondered if he’d made a mistake lying to her about Madeline. Well, it wasn’t really a lie as much as it was an omission of the truth.

“Madeline’s a vampire in the nest where I live,” he said. True.

“Like Terence?”

“Yes, like Terence, but well…kind of like our boss. She has a little more power than the others.” A lot more.

“Why? Why would she have more power than anyone else?”

“She also owns the property where we live.” True, but not exactly why she’s more powerful.

“Okay. So, is she someone I should be worried about?”

“Absolutely not.” Not even a little true, but let me do the worrying.

The real truth was that he didn’t want Clara to get involved in any way with the nest and especially with Madeline. Lying beside him, still and breathing softly, she looked so vulnerable – so human. There was no doubt in his mind that Madeline would kill Clara. She’d killed the woman Raymond loved. Just the thought of it made his fangs extend. How he hated Madeline. He wanted to keep her as far away from Clara as possible, and if that meant keeping information from Clara, then it was justified in his mind. But that didn’t make the twinge of guilt go away.

He carefully climbed out of the bed, kissed Clara on the cheek, and tucked the covers around her, leaving her to sleep peacefully for the rest of the night.

Walking home, he thought about the prospect of being able to work again, and was grateful to Terence and Raymond for their help – Terence for his legal skills and Raymond for shooting his new tear sheets.

He stopped in the living room to thank them both, interrupting their usual silent tasks of reading and painting.

Climbing the stairs to his room, he considered how lucky he was to have such companionable roommates. It certainly could have been much worse.

He was lying down watching TV when he felt an additional brother in the house, and shortly after there was a knock at his door. He opened the door to Billy who looked like he’d been crying.

“Come on in,” Derek said.

When the door was closed, Billy sat on the bed and Derek pulled a chair over and sat to face him.

“What’s going on?’ Derek began.

Billy put his face in his hands and rubbed his eyes, then shook his head before speaking.

“I killed somebody.” His bottom lip trembled and he looked so young – like a little boy, really.

“Okay. You want to tell me about it?”

His eyes filled with tears. “I don’t want to be what I am.”

“I understand. I think we all feel this way at first.”

“I killed her,” he said and covered his face again.

Derek waited until Billy stopped crying and dropped his hands.

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