Embrace the Night by Karen Chance

Author:Karen Chance
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Vampires, Romance, Fantasy, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781742530635
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“What, I can’t leave you alone for five minutes?” Billy hissed. No matter how many times I body-swap—not that it’s been all that many—I still get a weird tingle hearing my voice saying words my brain didn’t think up. Maybe I’ll get used to it eventually, but I doubt it.

I glanced at the darkened window and saw what I’d expected: a swarthy, saturnine type in a too loud suit, with slick black hair and a slight overbite. Not the prettiest face around, but also not one to attract anyone’s attention. I’d have to remember to thank Alphonse for strong-arming his man into this.

Possession tends to weird vampires out, mainly because it’s supposed to be impossible. Even low-level vamps are able to evict an unwanted guest with a little effort, and the stronger ones have shields formidable enough to ensure that nothing takes up residence in the first place. But Marcello had preferred allowing a hitchhiker aboard to suffering his master’s punishment. So far, he’d behaved himself, staying quiet and not attempting to wrest back control. I wondered how long that was going to last.

Outside the limo, neon-lit streets melted by in chaotic smears, shimmers of light and color and noise. Billy and I were headed out of the city to our rendezvous with the Senate. I’d slipped away without telling Pritkin, mainly because he and the Consul hadn’t exactly hit it off the first time they met and I didn’t need any help making a bad impression. But also because as soon as I got my hands on Mircea, I was off to get the Codex and finish this thing. And I still wasn’t convinced that Pritkin was all that interested in saving a vampire’s life—especially not now.

It still felt strange not having him there, though: like an empty holster where there should be a gun. I hadn’t realized how much I’d come to rely on his particular brand of insanity. It was too bad; what we were attempting tonight would have been right up his alley.

So I had about a thousand things to worry about and less help than I’d planned. Yet not only did that not keep Billy from bitching, but it didn’t even slow him down. “You were out of it for almost a day,” I pointed out.

“Well, forgive me for exhausting myself saving your life!” he snapped. “Not to mention that you were supposed to be sleeping! Not running around with gangsters planning a hit on the Senate!”

“We’re not hitting the Senate,” I told him patiently for maybe the sixth time. “We’re going in, grabbing Mircea and getting out. No big deal.” It was what I needed to believe, anyway.

“Right. Which is why you’re too scared to stay in your own body.” Billy paused, fidgeting.

“What?”

“My boobs don’t fit in this dress. And no, I can’t believe I just said that.”

“Don’t do that,” I batted his hands away from a part of my anatomy they did not need to know any better. “You’re supposed to look dignified.

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