Jewell Elizabeth - Solar Flare 3 - Emerald Earth by Elizabeth Jewell

Author:Elizabeth Jewell [Jewell, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

It was wrong, Trev knew, to stalk his erstwhile lover, but he did it anyway. After all, vampires were good at stalking. He might as well keep his skills honed.

The mere fact Ash had left the hotel on his own had shocked Trev. Relieved him too, in a way, since he hoped it meant there was some possibility Ash would be able to resume a normal life at some point. The bar surprised him even more, and when he realized Ash had come there to meet someone, he nearly blew his careful stalking cover right there, to seize Ash from the other man who sat next to him, talking, his face creased in obvious concern.

Then he recognized the other man. He’d been at the press conference. A reporter, then. Another journalistic scumbag trying to milk as much as he could out of the story of Lightning Girl. That made him even angrier, and then it didn’t. The reporter had gotten Ash out of the hotel where Trev had been unable to do so. Trev owed him for that, in a way.

Afraid Ash might spot him if he kept lurking along the edges of the crowd in the bar, Trev went back outside. He stayed, though, lingering in the dark at the edges of the streetlights that illuminated the sidewalks and the alley.

It was not the best part of town. A few hookers lingered at the corner near the bar, displaying their jurisdictional badges to avoid being carted off by the cops. What they were doing was legal, but in most cities prostitutes were still relegated to the seedier areas, while the “better” neighborhoods managed to pass regulations to keep them out. One of them looked his way and frowned, as if she might be able to see him. Trev drew the shadows closer around him, and she looked away.

He was thinking about approaching them, anyway, not for sex but to see if any of them would be amenable to letting him feed, when the back door to the bar opened and Ash emerged, followed by the reporter. Trev slid farther back into the darkness.

He listened. The conversation surprised him, relieved him, and then angered him. He fought the anger back. Ash did need this. He needed fresh blood, and Trev knew that, had known it since he’d first helped Ash wake up for the first time as a vampire, sprawled there on the metal floor aboard Lightning Girl. He hadn’t been able to give it to him then, and he couldn’t give it to him now. But this other man, this reporter, could.

God, what he would give to be able to heal Ash in that way. It was the first time in a very, very long time that he actually wished he could be human again.

He watched, listened, absorbing the conversation. If something went wrong, if Ash drank too fast, too hard, he could easily intervene. As long as he paid attention, anyway, but that was becoming progressively more difficult as his own arousal rose and spiked.

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