Morganville - 08 - Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine

Author:Rachel Caine
Language: eng
Format: MOBI, mobi
Published: 2013-01-09T08:08:26.435000+00:00

“I know,” Eve said with a sigh. “I’m just—I need him right now, you know? Shane was all

gallant and came with you. I feel... abandoned, that’s all.”

“You’re not abandoned,” Shane said. “Dude, don’t bag on Michael. It’s a whole different

problem when you’re flammable.”

Eve turned her face away, toward the window, and said, “I know. I’m just—Gah, seriously, I

hate being helpless! We have to do something,” she said. “We have to get out of this.”

But, as Morley dropped into the driver’s seat of the bus, slammed the doors closed, and put

the beast in gear, Claire wasn’t at all sure what options they really had. Morley wasn’t

interested in bargains, and they had nothing to trade, anyway. No way they could threaten

him, not even with Amelie; he’d already given Amelie the finger on his way out of

Morganville, and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him—or, if so, what would

happen when she did. Claire didn’t have anything else in her bag of tricks; nothing at all.

“Wait it out,” Shane said, as though he knew what she was thinking—and he probably did,

actually. He was starting to get really good at that. “Just wait and watch. Something will

happen. We just need to be ready to move when it does.”

“Fantastic,” Eve muttered sourly. “Waiting. My favorite. Next to skinny-dipping in acid and

having vampires suck my blood. ”

“Sorry,” Shane said to Claire.

“For what?”

“That you’re sitting next to Little Miss Sunshine. It’s not going to be a fun trip.”

He was right about that. It wasn’t.

8

Eve mostly sat in silence, but she was just crackling with anger. Claire could feel it coming

off her like static electricity. She wasn’t cooling off anytime soon, either; Claire thought she

was being angry to keep from being scared, which wasn’t a bad choice. Being scared under

these circumstances wasn’t going to get them anywhere. It certainly hadn’t helped Orange

Cap and Angry Guy much, or the five other people Claire could spot who were bound and

gagged, waiting for a vamp to get hungry.

She saw it happen once, but in the medically approved way; Jacob Goldman—Patience’s

vampire brother, and under other circumstances kind of an okay guy—had fixed somebody up

with a tourniquet and drawn out about ten tubes of blood from one of the men sitting two

rows up. He was good at it. Theo, his dad and a doctor, had probably taught him how to do it.

She supposed there was one advantage to having a vampire draw your blood—he wasn’t

likely to miss a vein and have to try again.

Jacob looked unhappy about what he was doing, and at the end, even patted his victim on the

shoulder in a gentle, reassuring way. Claire half expected him to hand over a lollipopalthough

since the man was gagged, that probably wouldn’t make much sense.

“Not happening,” Eve whispered next to her. “No, not happening. This cannot be happening.

Where the hell is Oliver? Isn’t he supposed to be our chaperone?”

Claire didn’t know and couldn’t begin to reassure Eve, because there was a creeping sense of

doom coming over her, too. Michael wasn’t showing up, and neither was Oliver, and that had

to be bad.

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