Nighter by Magdalena Kozak

Author:Magdalena Kozak [Kozak, Magdalena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire, vampire soldiers, special agent, military fantasy, urban fantasy, soldiers, vampyre
Publisher: CK Printworks
Published: 2017-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

The Capitol

Karina stood at the table in the Moonwalker bar. She stared at Vesper, furrowed her brow, and leaned her head to the side.

“I remember you from somewhere...” she thought hard. “I do.”

He smiled shyly. Yeah, he was stupid expecting the girl to remember a fling from... Wait, how much time had gone by? A month? Two? Maybe even three. And he had kept working, didn’t even drop by, didn’t even call once... So no wonder he’d been forgotten. He cleared his throat to hide his fluster.

“Doesn’t matter,” he said, forcing himself to speak in a relaxed tome. “Either way, Nidor says hi.” She brightened up instantly.

“Oh, Nidor!” she said, and her eyes lit up. “Say hi to him from me, and from all the Moonwalker girls. He used to come here more often...” She smiled fleetingly at some memory. “But he hasn’t been by for a long time, we thought he forgot all about us.”

“He was wounded,” Vesper explained briefly. “He was in recovery. A long and nasty one.”

She twisted her hands in an empathic gesture. “But everything’s fine with him, right?” she asked worriedly, and then added, “What kind of a wound was it?”

“Don’t worry,” he laughed in answer. “The most important thing was spared.”

She brightened up a little, but her expression was still worried.

“Tell him to drop by sometime,” she asked. “We know here how hard their service is...” she broke off suddenly, glancing at him uneasily, unsure if she didn’t say too much.

“Sure,” he nodded reassuringly. “I’ll tell him your every word.”

She doesn’t even remember that I’m a nighter too, he sighed internally, regretfully. Well, Mr. Bond, your superhero career was weak. So far, you work your ass off from dusk to dawn, and chicks don’t even remember you exist. That’s not how it was supposed to be, definitely not.

He looked toward the opposite side of the room, communicated with Fulgur through their eyes. The place was clear, no dudes stoned with illegal blood. Good, we’re going to the next one.

He stood up, and dropped a few coins that rolled noisily across the table. He looked at Karina, who smiled at him politely.

“Right then,” he said. “Take care, Moonwalker girls. We’ll drop in on you sometime.”

She nodded, and suddenly her eyes widened in understanding. Apparently she’d recognized him.

“Oh, riiight...” she said. “I remember you. You’re that new nighter.” She laughed differently this time, charmingly, seductively. “Right... I haven’t seen you in forever.”

“Work,” he said loosely. “You understand.”

“Drop in sometime,” she repeated the invitation, kissing his cheek. “Definitely do.”

Fulgur was standing at the door, staring pointedly at his watch. He said mentally to Vesper, If you keep screwing around man, we’ll finish this patrol at noon at the earliest.

Vesper sighed shortly. That’s it as far as having a personal life. It’s been proven impossible.

“We will. For sure.” He hugged Karina briefly, let go of her, and walked to the door.

He wasn’t really sure if he planned to keep that promise. Sure, she wasn’t ugly, and she was entertaining, like a good Viner.

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