Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan

Author:Georgette Kaplan [Kaplan, Georgette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Lesbian, Romance
Goodreads: 29414520
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2016-03-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

In the night, without the lights on, the house was like a glass poured full of wet shadows. Icy furniture swam inside, shifting into view with the waning of the moon, liquid and bony. Looking through that dark glass, Mindy felt like she was looking inside some alien creature, watching its organs pump and beat and breathe. She went to the front door and bent to the lock, Seb and Lucia standing behind to shield her from being seen from the lake. Not that there was anyone there.

She took out the lockpick kit she’d ordered from an eBay seller in China for a buck last year. Mindy has seen this whole thing done in a GIF. She just had to use the pry bar to hold the bottom of the lock down, then try all the tumblers with the toothy thing. She clicked the first tumbler, nothing happened, the second tumbler, nothing happened, the third tumbler…

Where had she heard that the first tumbler in the sequence was always one of the first three tumblers in the lock? Maybe she should start over, try them more carefully. Was there something else you were supposed to do? Maybe she should look at that GIF again. She could probably find it on Google with her phone.

“Have you ever picked a lock before?” Lucia asked.

Mindy ignored her.

“Because when you said ‘I’ll pick the lock,’ I assumed you’d picked a lock before, and that’s why you were on lockpicking duty.”

“I have the lockpick, don’t I?” Mindy said, which she counted as still ignoring Lucia because she was stating a fact, not engaging with her.

“You didn’t answer my question. Seb, she didn’t answer my question.”

Seb rubbed his arms against the cold. “Mindy, have you ever been lockpicking before?”

“Have you guys?”

“If I had a lockpick, I would’ve,” Lucia answered smartly.

Mindy tried the fourth tumbler. She’d show them. When she opened the door, she’d give them a look right off Natalie Dormer’s face and say something clever like—wait, was this the fourth tumbler or the third one?

“Okay, you want to know the truth?” Mindy went back one, tried that tumbler. None of them seemed to do anything. “When I got them, I tried picking the lock on the backdoor of my house, I spent like ten minutes on it, then I got bored and watched Netflix. The point is, I may not be the Lockpick Queen of Central Texas, but I know the basics, and now I have incentive.”

“Yeah, slaying a vampire.”

Shutting you up, Mindy silently corrected her. “Uh-huh.”

“Can I try?” Lucia persisted.

Mindy quickly prodded each tumbler. Stupid fucking—“I can do it!”

“Just let me try, alright?”

The last tumbler wiggled but did nothing. Mindy moved out of the way. “Be my guest!”

Lucia kicked the door open. “Whaddya know, it was unlocked.”

Seb and Mindy went in together, inviting Lucia after them.

Lucia led the way. Mindy guessed when it came to night vision, becoming a vampire was better than eating carrots. She tried to follow, but Lucia was going too fast and Mindy didn’t want to trip over anything.

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