No Man's Land by Debra Dunbar

Author:Debra Dunbar [Dunbar, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, urban fantasy, werewolf, vampire, paranormal romance, Lesbian romance, fantasy humor
Publisher: Anessa Books
Published: 2014-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

–22–

Kelly rode shotgun in Jaq’s old truck; the vampire bodies in huge garbage bags rode in the back, weighted down with tools and bricks. Jaq told her they were taking back roads to avoid the highway.

“It’s early morning, and there’ll be lots of police catching drunks,” she explained. “Better to be on the safe side.”

Kelly nodded. They sat in silence, the only noise the whirring of the truck’s tires on the road. Tired. So very tired. Kelly leaned her head against the truck window, feeling strangely disconnected. Her body seemed to be filled with lead weights. It had taken every ounce of strength to pull herself up into Jaq’s lifted truck. But it was her head, floating above her like a helium balloon that was the strangest of sensations. Head here. Body there. What would happen if she floated right out above the truck and drifted away? Already she felt a blurry sense of peace at the idea.

Jaq stirred in the driver’s seat, taking her eyes from the road to cast a concerned glance Kelly’s way. “You look like complete and total crap.”

“Thanks.” She couldn’t manage a smile let alone make a witty comeback about her lack of make–up. Head, floating away.

“I didn’t realize …I mean the last two days you’ve really gone downhill.”

There were all kinds of witty rejoinders to make, but even if she’d been able to put words together in her head, Kelly doubted she could manage to get them out of her mouth.

“You’re getting weaker, and I can tell you don’t have much longer. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.” The werewolf pounded the steering wheel with a fist. It bent slightly. She must do this a lot, because the steering wheel looked like it hadn’t been completely round in several years.

“Screw it. I’m getting you a human. Just this one time, that’s all. I’ll grab him or her, and hold them down while you cut them up and drink. I’ll heal them. I’ll deny everything; claim that they’re some psycho that imagined the whole thing.”

“Then in three days I’m back to this,” Kelly forced out.

“Then we’ll do it again in three days.” There was terrible pain in the werewolf’s voice, and Kelly knew she would be breaking every moral she held dear.

“No. Won’t let you betray your pack’s trust.”

It wouldn’t work anyway, and she saw that same realization in Jaq’s eyes. They could get away with it maybe once, but over and over again? Humans with the same bizarre story of being attacked by a blood–sucking girl in a dark alley, with an accomplice that healed? Kelly didn’t think the werewolves would overlook it the first time it happened.

The truck abruptly pulled over to the side of the road in a spray of gravel, and Jaq slammed it into park, turning to face Kelly.

“We’ve got to tell them,” Jaq said, her voice catching. “Margaret is a nurse at the VA hospital in Martinsburg. She could probably sneak some human blood out for you.

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