Recombinant by Shannon Mayer & Denise Grover Swank

Author:Shannon Mayer & Denise Grover Swank [Mayer, Shannon & Swank, Denise Grover]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781987933093
Publisher: HiJinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2015-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

LEA

Victor held his hands up in surrender. “Okay, okay, I’ll tell you what I know.” If he’d been any other person, I would have just bitten him and read through his memories. But that would be giving him exactly what he wanted. With the vampire blood he’d been drinking, if I drained him now he’d turn. The last thing I needed was Victor as a vampire.

I tightened my hold on him.

“You have exactly one minute to tell me what I want to know, and then I’m going to start removing body parts.” I grinned. “Actually, please stay silent. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a blood bath.”

He paled and his mouth dropped open. “You wouldn’t. I’m your patron. My father helped you for over fifty years!”

“You can be replaced, Victor. Forty-five seconds left.”

“I’m funding a government project. I don’t have all the particulars.” His eyes darted with the lie, but I knew I would get it out of him later, so for now I just let him talk. “There have been some problems.”

“Because they are using vampires?”

His throat bobbed as he tried to swallow. I tracked the movement with my eyes.

“No, that’s not a problem.”

“Then what is?” I had a hard time believing that whatever vampires they were working with weren’t a problem.

“Security mostly, guards going missing, they can’t seem to keep the staff together. Issues with leaks. If this gets out to the media, the whole project could be pulled. I can’t have that. The work is too important, and too many lives are at stake.” His eyes were almost sincere enough for me to believe him.

Almost.

“Where is all this taking place?”

“Little town called Johnsonville in Ohio.”

I tightened my grip on him, pulling his face close enough to kiss. Or bite. “Bullshit. Where in New York is it happening?”

His body shook. “I can’t tell you. I don’t even know myself.”

“How does Rikers Island play into this?”

His eyes twitched and darted away from mine again. “I don’t know.”

I pushed him, sending him flying across the room. His body smashed hard into the far wall and he slid down without even a whimper. “Lying prick.”

Taking my time, I ransacked the room. Secret compartments were a specialty of mine and it didn’t take long for me to find the one in the pedestal, under what had to be a three-hundred-pound, half-century-old vase. I lifted it and the tiny button below it depressed, opening a panel within the pedestal.

There was money, which I took, and a few jewels, which I also removed. Payment for all the shit he’d put me through. I didn’t need the money, but it would be nice if Calvin could retire in style.

But none of that was what I wanted. Under it all was a single file folder. I pulled it out and opened it.

Asclepius Project was stamped on the inside of the folder.

But there wasn’t a single fucking sheet inside it. “Son of a bitch.” I slapped the paper down and ripped the pedestal out of the ground, throwing it and the vase across the room and through the main door.

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