Gypsy Blood_Love bloody hurts by Helen Allan

Author:Helen Allan [Allan, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hell West Press
Published: 2018-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

We don’t talk about what happened in the spa, and Zan is careful not to be alone with me for the next three days of Thai talks.

I don’t think he is angry with me per se, although he might be, I can’t tell. But he has a firm set to his jaw that makes me not want to bring up the fact that someone, somewhere must have tipped off the vamps that a) we were in Thailand and b) we were going to have a massage.

I know he is smart enough to work out for himself that it could very well have been some of the other princes that want him out of the way, but I don’t want to state the obvious – all is not well in the state of Denmark, dude.

On the flight home, he raises the issue.

“I’d appreciate your take,” he says, sipping a whisky and looking across at me. We are in first class, and I’m loving the seats.

“I think you already know,” I say over my drink, watching his eyes carefully, “I think one of the little arsehole princelings you were meeting with set us up.”

“I thought you might think that,” he puts his glass down on the table between us. “What makes you so sure?”

“It’s elementary my dear Watson,” I laugh as I tick off the points on my fingers. “Number 1: We left on the spur of the moment and didn’t tell anyone in Bulgaria where we were going – so no one could have called ahead. Number 2: You set up meetings with the princes once you got there. So no advance warning. Number 3: The only ones who knew you were there, at that hotel, at that time, were the people you called. And you said yourself, one of them owns the hotel we were staying in. I think that’s how they knew to let the vamps in to attack us at our most vulnerable. Give the vampires a prince, keep them off the local princes’ backs for a while, happy families.”

“My thoughts exactly Freely,” he sighs, “What the fuck am I going to do about this?”

“What I don’t get,” I frown, “is the factions within the prince families. You would think they would all want to work together to protect themselves from the vamps. But even at the camp, I could see there was a kind of wide divide between some families.”

“I know,” he sips his drink thoughtfully. “It has something to do with the gypsies and how they are paired with the princes, but if there is some big conspiracy, no one shared it with me. My name preceded me there.”

“Mmmm,” I say, putting my drink down. “Maybe call your dad, he might be able to give you a bit more insight.”

“I did,” he snorts, “as soon as we were free from that bloody camp. He said it was just the usual politics and power plays.”

We are both silent for a time. Finally, I decide it’s time to have ‘the talk’ the one I’ve been putting off since Singapore.

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