Fallen by Rebecca Rivard

Author:Rebecca Rivard [RIVARD, REBECCA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Hearts Press

The next week passed in a haze of sex, wine and chocolate. The vampire trifecta.

I did the minimum of work, letting Cain and Talon handle the rest. I knew I’d shocked them. Hell, I barely recognized this new, irresponsible Brien myself.

But this Brien woke up smiling each night.

This Brien was…happy.

I knew it wasn’t forever. People were going to start asking questions—about Jules, about who was in charge. And the uneasy peace between me and Prosper would probably break sooner than later.

Meanwhile, though, I was having the best week of my life.

In between having Twilight in every position I could think of, I coaxed her to tell me about herself. I especially enjoyed hearing stories about her childhood. I could just picture a tiny, dark-eyed, pigtailed Twilight playing vampire and slayer.

“I’ll bet you were a baby badass,” I’d told her, and she’d snort-laughed.

“Yeah,” she’d deadpanned. “I came out of the womb kicking butt.”

I toyed with the idea of asking if she’d meant it about dreaming of becoming a vampire. Would she be willing to be turned? And did I want to risk losing her?

Because it was risky—some humans didn’t make it through the transition.

As for Slayers, Inc., she didn’t volunteer any information about the organization or what her work had entailed, and I didn’t ask. In return, I didn’t talk about syndicate business in front of her.

As far as I was concerned, she was never going to work for those SI bastards again anyway, especially after she shared why she was so terrified of being locked up a dark, windowless space.

One night I arranged a lobster bake in a secluded cove—just a fire, the ocean, and the two of us on a soft plaid blanket spread out on the sand.

As the lobster cooled, we sipped glasses of dry white wine and gazed out at the water. “I used to come here with Cain and Talon and some of the other teenagers,” I told her.

“Yeah? Sounds fun.”

“It was.” I smiled, remembering. “But before that, I used to come with my father.”

“To do what?”

“Swim. He’s the one who taught me. He was…more relaxed in the water. We’d race each other around the island.”

“What about those great white sharks?”

My mouth quirked. “That was part of the fun. Great whites are fast and sneaky as fuck. I could outswim them, but it wasn’t easy.”

She eyed me like I was insane. “That’s your idea of fun?”

“Jules’s way of toughening me up. But we both enjoyed it.” My smile faded. “But that was a long time ago—twenty, twenty-five years.”

And even though it had been a game, it had also been a test of my strength—mental and physical. A vampire wasn’t easy to kill, but we still felt pain.

Twilight slid me a look. “The primus—he’s okay?”

I instinctively smoothed out my expression. She’d broken our unspoken agreement not to talk about our respective professions. “Why do you ask?”

She compressed her mouth. “Because he more or less attacked me, up on the curtain wall.”

I straightened from where I’d been lounging on the blanket.

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