Heart of the Vampire: Episode 1 by Tasha Black

Author:Tasha Black [Black, Tasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 13th Story Press
Published: 2020-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

11

Dru sat at her desk, hands on the keys of the old typewriter, as she gazed out the window and tried to spin her tale properly.

But it seemed as though her ghost story required a melancholy mood that she wasn’t quite feeling at the moment.

It was that look in Viktor’s eyes, and the strength of his arms around her in the woods the other night, giving her a sense of warm anticipation instead of the trepidation a spooky story required.

She ran her hand absentmindedly across the surface of the desk, feeling her grandmother’s initials carved there. She’d been doing it habitually since she found them. Sometimes, it helped her focus.

Finally, her bedroom faded, and the world of the novel descended on her. She lost herself until the alarm on her phone went off, telling her it was time to head downstairs for her shift.

She stood up, stretched, and grabbed the typewriter and journal to take down with her, feeling good about making some progress. She left the room with a spring in her step and headed for the front desk.

“Hey, Dru,” Hailey said before she could even get down the stairs.

“How’s it going?” Dru asked.

“No, no, no,” Hailey scolded her. “Oh, no. You’re not getting away with that.”

“Getting away with what?” Dru asked.

“Getting away with what?” Hailey echoed. “I don’t know, how about getting away with noticing the weird trunk guy is secretly a hottie, and then hiding out with him in the solarium?”

“Oh, that’s not—” Dru began.

“—and then taking him with you to clean up a dead animal,” Hailey continued. “You might have convinced me you just bumped into each other in the solarium, but roadkill duty? That shit is reserved for boyfriend material.”

Dru glanced around the lobby to make sure they were alone, and then felt a little silly about it.

“Nothing is going on with us,” she said quietly.

Outside of the fact that I can’t stop thinking about him, even when I’m asleep, apparently.

“So why did you have to make sure the coast was clear before you said that?” Hailey whispered back, arching her brows even higher. At this rate, they were going to end up jumping completely off her face.

Dru couldn’t help but giggle.

Hailey’s face broke into a warm smile. “I knew it.”

“Nothing is going on with us, though,” Dru protested. “That part is true. But, yeah, he is… hot.”

“Yeah, he is hot,” Hailey said. “Girl, lock that down before someone else does.”

“You wouldn’t dare,” Dru said.

“What? Me?” Hailey laughed. “I would never hone in on your racket. But there are other women out there.”

“Not here,” Dru said.

There were a few female guests, but she was pretty sure there wasn’t exactly a lot of competition. Unless Viktor was into married women, or geriatric sisters.

“Not here yet,” Hailey corrected her. “But we’ve got loads of people coming in for the comet. All you need is one woman with a little initiative, and some big boobs and whammo, he’s gone.”

“Well, he’s just a hotel guest,” Dru shrugged. Though it didn’t really feel that way.

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