Out of the Night by Out of the Night (Warner)

Author:Out of the Night (Warner) [(Warner), Out of the Night]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-14T01:33:04+00:00

Elsewhere in the city, Lance Burton paced the length of the basement, occasionally pausing long enough to slam his fist into the wall. Already, several holes marred the surface, but no one would care. The building they'd found to stay in had been condemned years ago. No one came there now, not even the homeless.

"Damn it, I should have killed him," Lance swore. "Straight off when I had the chance."

Hector Munoz stood patiently in the corner, rubbing his jaw. "I thought you said he'd be easy to handle."

"He's changed." The question in Lance's mind was—what had happened to Knight that had caused him to change? It was a mystery, and Lance didn't like mysteries.

He strode out of the room and down the length of the hallway, knowing that Hector followed him. Not many knew it, but he and Hector had been childhood friends. He was glad when Hector found them in the jungle that night; happy with his decision to have the chupacabra kill his friend. Not only did it prove, beyond doubt, the professor's theory that humans killed by chupacabras turned into vampires, but it gave Lance another like himself—a member of the undead who had a military background. Hector, he knew, would follow orders.

He gazed at the three bodies at his feet—Patterson, Brown, and Kinsley. They'd rise on the following night, and he'd know then whether they would be equally obedient.

"Stay with them, and I'll go see how the good professor did tonight."

He didn't wait for Hector to answer, but left the room and retraced his steps down the hallway, this time going to the opposite end. Walking into the last room, he found the professor fussing over the two creatures and rolled his eyes at the sight. The professor treated the things as if they were his children.

"Were you successful?" Lance asked without preamble.

The professor didn't jump, and Lance knew he'd felt him coming through the mind link they shared.

"Yes. I collected twenty bags tonight, and tomorrow we should do even better. As the word gets around, we'll have homeless lining up from all over the city to sell us their blood." The professor sounded tired, which Lance attributed to the coming of dawn.

"Fine." He glanced at his watch. It was only 3:00 a.m. There was still plenty of time, if he moved quickly, which he was quite capable of doing. "I'll get more money and supplies." It would be so much easier, he thought, to just lure the homeless to them and feed until they were dead, but he didn't want their bodies lying around, rotting and stinking up the joint, and he couldn't very well dump them elsewhere. The last thing he needed was to leave a trail of corpses for Knight to follow.

Part of him wondered if he'd received enough of the creature's venom to be able to convert the dead into vampires himself, as the professor had once suggested, but didn't think so. He and the professor had killed those men in Taribu and then later, after they'd arrived in D.

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