Night Blade by J. C. Daniels

Author:J. C. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Tagline… A knife in the dark, Vampires, Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780615778068
Publisher: Theoklesia, LLC
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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My bag was waiting for me in the bathroom and I grabbed it with greedy hands. Clean…I could be clean, and dressed…

Then I deflated as I realized then only thing I could be dressed in were jeans, clean panties, one of the tanks I wore under T-shirts. Oh. A bra. I did have a clean bra.

But where the hell was my spare shirt? I went through the bag again, but it didn’t magically appear. Even after I checked the pockets and dumped it upside down. Sighing, I gave up. For all I knew it had been used as one of the bandages on my side last night.

I saw the switch outside the shower and hit it, leaning in a little and smiling as I saw the fireplace come on. I could get used to that, I decided. A long hot shower. Maybe if I stalled long enough—

Then I scowled.

No more hiding.

So as much as I wished I could hide in the warmth of the shower forever, I made it short.

It took less than ten minutes; the heat of the water worked a miracle on my battered body. I stepped out of the shower feeling almost ready to face the day.

But then I heard the low murmur of voices outside and decided, no, I really wasn’t ready to face the day. Or Damon’s people. Pressing a hand to my neck, I closed my eyes. “We do this,” I told myself.

Come out when you feel up to it—

“Not ready yet.”

The room where we’d been sleeping wasn’t precisely the main chamber. He had a series of rooms in front of it where his primary team stayed, and then his own private quarters behind those. Back here, there was a small kitchen, the ridiculous luxury of the bathrooms, his library and office. I could maybe grab one of his shirts, and clear my mind in the library or something. A couple of minutes. That was all I needed.

I paused by the massive walk-in closet outside adjacent to the bathroom and studied the clothes there. For a guy who mostly just wore T-shirt and jeans, he sure as hell had a lot of clothes. Reaching out, I touched my fingers to one of the shirts hanging closest to me. It was gray. I’d developed a mad love for gray it seemed, over the past few months. Tugging it off the hanger, I pulled it on and buttoned it up. It fell almost to my knees. That didn’t work. I tucked it in and started rolling up the sleeves as I left the closet.

I stopped at the door to the library, but for reasons I can’t really describe, I didn’t go in. Something tugged me toward his office. The lights were off and I left them that way as I slipped inside. The desk was a state of organized chaos. I studied everything, taking it all in as I rounded it. What was I looking for? I didn’t know, but there was something.

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