Le roi du sang by Tiana Laveen

Author:Tiana Laveen
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction
Publisher: The Lion's Den
Published: 2019-02-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

They Come in Threes…

Teaching online classes did not prove as bad as Venus had once believed.

Alexandre appeared genuinely surprised when she announced she was leaving the university job, though she explained her contingency plan, at least until the dust settled. Perhaps one day, she’d return to the brick and mortar scene. The thought of owning an art store, or perhaps, a museum of sorts was appealing, too. If she were honest with herself, that was where her passion lay, but things had gotten incredibly complicated; it was time to make the tough decisions.

She parked her new blood red Mercedes at the number 9 pump at the Mobil gas station on E 10th Street in Manhattan after spending some time at the public library doing a bit of research and enjoying a few hours of retail therapy, too. It had been a while since she’d shopped for herself, taken a pure pleasure trip, and a sales clerk had complimented her on how gorgeous the colors blue and taupe looked against her skin tone. It was time to freshen up her wardrobe—a new start on all counts.

She stood outside under the glow of the gas station lights, enjoying the cool night air. Clad in her blazer, bright high-low top, black leggings and boots, she pumped gas and watched the numbers go around and around, racking up the coins. As she stood there, she took in the sounds of people chatting on their phone, tossing trash in the bins, slurping loudly on straws filled with fizzy drinks, walking in then out of the small one-story store holding bags of beverages, snacks, cigarettes and beer. All of this overwhelmed her, made her distracted.

This is overload.

She could even hear people around her breathing or picking up change from their car console with the door closed some five pumps away. Everything came through in stereo. It seemed, since her lover had bitten her during their first time making love, he’d given her a gift—heightened senses like she’d never known.

Almost full…

She noted how much gas she’d pumped as her mind whirled from absorbing all the different sounds around her. Loud, crazy … but why was this affecting her so right at moment?

Her cellphone rang. She answered the call with a smile on her face.

“Hi, baby.”

“Bonjour, où es-tu, mon amour?”

She could hear what sounded like a printer in the background. He was probably in the home office, burning the midnight oil as he worked on another case.

“I’m at the gas station. You should know where I am though, nosy ass. Don’t you still have that tracker on my phone and Whiskey following me somewhere around here?” She chuckled as she looked about the lot, half way expecting to see the big guy’s Harley and him leaned over it, jamming a hotdog in his mouth.

“No, no, no… I told you that I understood it made you uncomfortable and honestly, you need to be able to handle yourself without intervention. Please remember that, in three days, we are leaving

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