Rachel Caine - Morganville Vampires 10 by The Dead Girl's Dance

Author:The Dead Girl's Dance
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-09T09:25:46+00:00

It was written all over his face, the things he couldn’t do. The limits he’d crashed into with so much force it had left him broken and bleeding in the wreckage.

“I know,’” Claire said. “I’ll try.’”

It was dark, it was Morganville, and she was sixteen years old. Not the best idea ever, going out of the house again, but Claire put on her darkest pair of jeans, a black shirt, and a big, gaudy cross that Eve had given her. She felt queasy at the idea of stakes. Doubly queasy at the idea of actually stabbing somebody with one.

I still have Protection, Amelie said so.

She hoped that would actually mean something.

Claire called Detective Hess’s number from the card Eve had left pinned to the board in the kitchen. He answered on the second ring, sounded tired and depressed.

“I need a ride,’” Claire said. “If you’re willing. I need to talk to Amelie.’”

“Even I don’t know how to get to Amelie,’” Hess said. “Best-kept secret in Morganville. I’m sorry, kid, but—’”

“I know how to get to her,’” she said. “I just don’t want to walk. Given—the time.’”

There was a second of silence, and then the sound of a pen scratching against paper. “You shouldn’t be out at all,’” Hess said. “Besides, I don’t think you’re going to get anywhere. You need to find somebody who can back up Shane’s story. That means one of his dad’s biker buddies. There may be one or two running around loose, but I don’t think talking sweet to them’s going to get you much.’”

“What about his dad?’”

“Trust me, you’re not going to find Frank Collins. Not before the powers that be do, anyway. Every vampire in town is out tonight, combing the streets, looking for him. They’ll find him eventually. Not a lot of places he can hide when it’s an all-out effort.’”

“But—if they catch him, that’s kind of a good thing. He could tell them Shane didn’t do it!’”

“He could,’” Hess agreed. “But he’s just crazy enough to think burning in a cage alongside his kid is going out in a blaze of glory. Some kind of victory. He might say Shane was part of it just to punish him. We can’t know.’”

She couldn’t deny that. Claire swallowed hard. “So…are you going to give me a ride or not?’”

“You’re determined to go out,’” Hess said. “In the dark.’”

“Yes. And I’ll walk if I have to. I just hope I don’t—have to.’”

His sigh rattled the phone speaker. “All right. Ten minutes. Stay inside until I honk the horn.’”

Claire hung up the phone and turned, and nearly bumped into Michael. She yelped, and he reached out and steadied her. He kept hold of her arms even after she didn’t need the steadying support anymore. He felt warm and real, and she thought—not for the first time—how weird it was that he could seem so alive when he really wasn’t. Not exactly. Not all the time.

He looked like he had something he wanted to say, but he didn’t know how to say it.

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