Kerrelyn Sparks - Love At Stake - 7 by Ruzaidi

Author:Ruzaidi [Ruzaidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T23:35:01.127000+00:00

It was almost like old times with a full house to guard. Phil drove Lara Boucher, Heather Echarpe, and Heather’s daughter Bethany to the townhouse. Then he excused himself to go to the basement to get a few hours sleep. He had to stay alert during the day, when he guarded the Vamps.

He was up again shortly before dawn. Vanda, Cora Lee, and Pamela teleported in from the nightclub. Jack and Jean-Luc returned from Apollo’s compound in Maine, reporting that there had been no more activity there. Angus and the rest of his team had decided to stay there.

Phineas arrived home with good news. He’d managed to find all the drugs Roman needed to figure out the Nightshade formula.

The house grew quiet as the Vamps went off to their rooms to fall into their death-sleep. Around 11:00A.M ., Austin and Darcy dragged in.

Darcy, a former member of Roman’s harem, had met Austin Erickson when he worked for the CIA Stake-Out Team. Now a married couple, they were invaluable mortal employees at MacKay Security & Investigation. They’d delivered the prisoner to the silver room at Romatech before arriving at the townhouse. Exhausted, they headed straight to a bedroom.

Howard Barr called around 6:00P.M . to ask Phil and Austin to come to Romatech and ready the prisoner for questioning. Since the Vamps were still in their death-sleep, Darcy and Lara took over guard duty. Phil regretted that he would miss seeing Vanda. He hadn’t had a chance to talk to her since they’d made love. She could call it “just sex” if she wanted, but to him it was making love.

At Romatech, he and Austin went straight to the safe room in the basement. Angus had designed the room, completely encased in silver, to prevent a vampire from teleporting in or out. A wooden crate rested on the floor with Hermes inside.

Phil noted the lid had been nailed shut. A few air holes dotted the lid. Part of the journey from Maine had been in the dark, and during that time the Malcontent would have been alive and breathing.

Austin had left a crowbar in the room earlier, and now he pried the lid open a few inches. Phil grabbed the top and wrenched it off.

The sleeping vampire lay wrapped in silver chains. He looked about thirty-five years old, with a tall, gaunt body. His pale, pockmarked face was accented by deep-set eyes, sunken cheeks, and thinning brown hair. He couldn’t have been a very healthy mortal when he was transformed, and now he was stuck looking ill for centuries. But his pasty skin and frail body was deceiving. As a vampire, he possessed superior strength and speed.

Phil peered around the room. “Where do you want to put him?”

“The bed and easy chairs look too comfortable.” Austin grabbed a kitchen chair from the dinette set and set it in the middle of the room. “This will do.”

Phil helped Austin lift the vampire out of the crate. “He’s gotten a little stiff.”

They propped the

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