Night Owls by Lauren M. Roy

Author:Lauren M. Roy [Roy, Lauren M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Vampires, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780425272480
Amazon: 0425272486
Goodreads: 18281997
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2014-02-25T08:00:00+00:00

18

CHAZ HAD TIME to catch a nap and a shower after he dropped Elly and Cavale off in Crow’s Neck. They’d stopped in Edgewood first, to maneuver Val inside. Good thing she had a garage that connected to the house and had given Chaz the automatic door opener. It would’ve been awkward explaining the body-shaped bundle they’d carried inside otherwise. Plus, he’d have had to find a tarp to wrap her in, first.

As it was, they’d left her on the living room floor, covered in blankets. Val was a hundred and fifty-something pounds of dead weight, and Chaz and Cavale had taken one look at the stairs and said forget it. The floor wasn’t as comfortable as her bed, but it was carpeted, and Chaz had tucked a throw pillow beneath her head. He was pretty sure it’d beat spending the day stuffed in his trunk.

Three hours later, tired as hell but at least clean shaven and presentable, he knocked on Sunny and Lia’s door. When it opened, he was greeted not by either of the women he’d left Justin with yesterday, but instead peered down into the eyes of a young Katharine Hepburn. She could have been straight out of Philadelphia Story if it weren’t for the flannel pajamas and the bunny slippers.

“Chaz! Hi!” she said, in Hepburn’s smoky voice. “Come on in. Lia’s trying out Rita Hayworth.”

“Trying . . . out?” He followed the succubus inside, confused.

“Mm-hmm. Did you know Justin likes old movies? He spent most of yesterday watching one of those black-and-white-film channels. We thought we’d put on a show.”

Chaz glanced at the bunny slippers again. Whatever they were up to, it clearly wasn’t the kind of show most men would expect a pair of succubi to put on. When he entered the living room, Lia was in a huge fluffy bathrobe, dancing a barefoot samba across the floor. Tendrils of red hair spilled down her back, and now and then the robe would flare open, revealing a pair of perfect legs that went all the way up to . . . the hem of Lia’s running shorts.

Justin looked like he wanted to dive behind the couch. When he noticed Chaz, he sprang to his feet, relieved. “Hey, uh, you ready to go?” He dodged around Lia, who was trying to snag him for a dance. Sunny stepped into her arms instead, and the two waltzed a few steps before collapsing onto the love seat, giggling.

“You know,” said Chaz, “someone out there on the Internet would kill to see this.” He elbowed Justin. “You’re turning your nose up at the opportunity of a lifetime, dude.” It was amusing as hell watching the kid go from pink to tomato red. “Not like that. I mean, think about it. Right now, there are like a thousand fans who are feeling a sudden, overwhelming disappointment and they don’t even know why. But I do. And Sunny and Lia do. It’s because you were sitting there trying to meld with the furniture when you could’ve been reenacting scenes from The Lion in Winter.

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