Right to Silence by Lily Luchesi

Author:Lily Luchesi [Luchesi, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vamptasy Publishing
Published: 2017-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

"What's that?" Danny asked Helena one evening.

They were in his house in Chicago's North Side, and Helena was preparing dinner for the two of them. She'd brought a book with her, one with a fantastically designed cover, depicting a young medieval vampire woman brandishing a long sword, and an older man holding a stake. The title was The Underworld of London and it was apparently part of a series.

Danny put it down on the couch between them, trying to keep a straight face. He had no need to read fictional tales about vampires. He had fallen in love with a real one, and the time with Helena hadn’t eased his pain at missing her. He had no idea where she was or even if she was still in Chicago. Hell, he didn't know if she was even alive, and that broke his heart anew.

"It's a book," Helena replied sarcastically. "You know, a tattooed, dead tree?"

“About monsters.” He had loved Angelica as a vamplet, a monster, and he had still loved her after she had to be turned into a full blooded vampire thanks to an evil vampire...who just happened to be Danny's ex fiancée, whom Danny had thought was dead for over two decades. He loved her now.

"I didn't know you liked vampire books," he said. They’d been a bit more than friends, but never lovers for four months. How had he not known such a simple fact?

"I love them!" Helena gushed. "Especially her books, she's only written two, but they are really amazing: very gory."

As gory as watching a vamp tear a young girl to shreds before your eyes? Danny wondered but did not say.

She handed him a different book by the same author, apparently a sequel. Love in The Time of Hell. This had the same female vampire on the cover, but in a different dress, and with a different man. She was holding his hand while he bled from a wound he apparently didn't feel.

"Looks awful," he said.

"Are you kidding? You've got an entire Stephen King collection in your bookshelf...in hardcover no less!" She giggled, pulling 'Salem's Lot from the shelf.

"Yeah, but those were gifts," he explained. "That's the only one I made it through so far. I’m just not a fan of horror."

Helena opened the cover and read the inscription. Danny knew what it said in that one. He knew what they all said. All were written in a spiky, rushed hand in red pen. That one was, "Vincent is nothing compared to Barlow! You'll see. xoxo AC." Thankfully, Helena didn't ask about the meaning behind it, or who Vincent and AC were. That would've been a fun explanation about the existence of vampires...not.

Helena hadn't thought he was crazy a few years ago, unlike her father, but if he started to tell her about the FBI's Paranormal Investigative Division, she just might call Reed Center to admit him.

She kept perusing his bookshelves, her round bottom in tight jeans facing him and her hips swinging unconsciously to the song on the radio.

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