Outtakes from the Grave by Frost Jeaniene

Author:Frost, Jeaniene [Frost, Jeaniene]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Demons & Devils, Vampires, Anthology, Paranormal Romance, urban fantasy romance, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2015-12-21T08:00:00+00:00

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Hours later I reached over, grasping empty air when there should have been cool flesh. My eyes snapped open, and for a second, I thought I was in bed at my old house in Richmond before Bones found me. Alone, like I’d been for years.

The door flew open and Spade was there. “What’s wrong?”

“Huh?” I looked around, fully conscious now and remembering why I was in bed alone. Spade relaxed when he saw my cubicle was empty.

“Bad dream?” he queried.

“How would you—” I began, then stopped. “My heart rate, right? My, you’re being attentive. Have you been listening while I sleep? I hope I wasn’t talking as well.”

His lips twitched. “You might have been. The snoring would have drowned that out.”

I snorted in an unladylike fashion. “Did Bones tell you to say that? He always makes fun of my snoring, but personally I think it’s a lie. My mother never told me I snored.”

He laughed outright. “Then she was being gracious.”

In mid-stretch, I stopped to give him a jaded look. “You clearly don’t know her to assume that. Didn’t Bones ever tell you about her?”

His laughter subdued, but the twitch was back. “Not in any terms I would repeat.”

It didn’t offend me. Whatever Bones had called her, she’d deserved it. Trying twice to murder him allowed him a few unsavory comments where she was concerned.

“I’m off to shower and then to the Wreck Room. That’s what we call the training room. You’re coming, I assume?”

He nodded. “Of course.”

Thirty minutes later, I felt a refreshing surge as the sun set and darkness fell. Some things about me were more vampire than human, and my affinity for evening was one of them. Even as a child, I’d had a hard time going to sleep until it was close to dawn. I glanced at my watch as we entered the Wreck Room. Most of the team was inside training. They kept nocturnal hours also due to the nature of what we hunted.

“Querida.” Juan greeted me, stopping what he was doing and coming over. “Tate tells me you’ll be staying with us for a few days. Qué bueno, I’ve missed you since you’re always gone with that pale, pulseless man. No offense, amigo.”

Juan had mellowed considerably about vampires since he’d gotten chummy with Bones. Now he constantly pestered him for tips on how to seduce women. Bones spoke Spanish; I didn’t. It scared me to think of all the ribald conversation taking place under my nose, but Bones had laughingly refuted my attempts to discourage him from mentoring Juan in that area.

“Kitten, if he’s going to shag every woman that holds still long enough, at least he should be doing it properly. Heavens knows I’m helping them more than I am him,” had been his reply to my outraged protest.

Jeez, I was in trouble if that memory was enough to make me miss him again.

Spade looked around the training area with interest. It was about the size of two football fields, complete with obstacle

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