Poison (Elemental Assassin 0.5) by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult, Vampires
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
Published: 2010-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

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I’d had too much to drink. Or maybe just enough. It was hard to tell. Everything seemed soft and hazy in the dark.

The party had been held in an abandoned building over in Southtown, the part of Ashland that was home to the vampire hookers, pimps, and homeless bums. There’d been lots of loud music, lots of girls, and lots of booze. Everything else was a bit of a blur. Now, I was walking back to the Pork Pit, planning to use my key to let myself into the restaurant so I could sleep in one of the booths for the night. Dad would give me hell in the morning for disobeying him, but going to the party had been worth it.

Getting away from Gin for the night had been worth it.

A group of us had left the abandoned building together, but one by one, my friends had peeled off, going their respective ways, until now, it was just me. I wasn’t too worried, though. I was only about ten blocks from the Pork Pit now. I could make it ten more blocks before I passed out—

One minute, I was stumbling down the street, trying not to trip over the cracks in the sidewalk. The next, I was pinned up against the side of a building by two guys, with another guy standing in front of me, holding out a knife. I still wasn’t too worried, though. Muggings were as common as sunsets in Ashland, especially down here in Southtown.

“Hey, hey,” I said, giving them a crooked smile. “There’s no need to be rough about things. Take my wallet if you want, although I’ve got to warn you, there’s not much in there.”

“Don’t worry, pretty boy,” the guy with the knife said. “We will. And we’ll take your blood too. Every last drop of it.”

He smiled, revealing two dark, tobacco-stained fangs in his mouth. Ah, hell. They were vampires. Hungry ones too, from the way they were eyeing me.

Suddenly, I was extremely worried.

If I’d been sober, I probably could have fought back, broken free from the two vampires who were holding me, and then run like hell. But I wasn’t sober and the third guy had a knife. The odds were not in my favor. Still, I started struggling anyway, but my limbs felt slow and heavy, like I was trying to fight through water. The vampires just laughed at me and tightened their grips. Damn. If I got out of this in one piece, I was never drinking again. Well, not for a month, at the very least.

“Hold him still,” the guy with the knife said.

One of the other vampires forced my head back against the cold brick, exposing my neck. The vampire with the knife licked his lips and leaned forward. I winced, waiting for the pain that I was sure to feel from his vicious bite.

“Uh.”

For some reason, instead of tearing into my neck with his teeth, the vampire let out a low grunt instead and slumped forward, his body pressing against mine.

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