Running in the Dark by Regan Summers

Author:Regan Summers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Vampires
ISBN: 9781426894541
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I couldn’t tell if the air in the car was freezing, or if that was just how I felt. I’d never been in such a small space with a vampire other than Malcolm, and he restrained himself even during sleep. Don’t think about him. This vampire radiated power, and the longer I was near him, the more certain I became that I knew him. A customer maybe, but not a recent one. My head swam, adrenaline competing with the numbing energy and soothing sway of the car. The sucker waited for me to speak. Rude on top of being the mastermind of a situation borne straight out of my nightmares. Fantastic.

Tilde pulled at his sleeve, ran her hand up and down his thigh until he plucked it up and returned it to her. He also tightened his hold on his energy, pulling it close so it wouldn’t be so irresistible to her. He might as well have said “Stay,” she went so still beside him. I froze as well because I’d never felt a vampire, other than Malcolm, pull that trick. Shock, coupled with the fact that I needed to do something to keep from losing my shit, forced my mouth open.

“I suppose you know we are registered couriers. So what do you want with us?” My voice came out mostly level, but I stopped speaking when his eyes traveled the length of my body before returning to my face. He smirked, eyes half closing, and to my horror I blushed.

“You don’t appear to be on the clock. You do not wear your war paint, and I see no visible badge. How was I to know you were anything but a civilian?”

“There are rules about that too.” Funny that he’d only be concerned with the extension of the law that protected couriers, but it explained why his guys had waited until I returned my roster last night. He didn’t mind paying the fines for damaging a human, but didn’t want to shell out the additional fee to our employer. Tilde was already broken, but he was keeping her around, so biting her hadn’t been an accidental, spur-of-the-fangy-moment thing. He was doing a job, and she’d gotten in his way. So too, apparently, had I. Whatever the hell the job was.

“If you’re trying to disrupt Carla’s operation,” I said, feeling him out, “you should know that we don’t know anything about the business side. And if you think you can run her out of business by picking off her runners, you should have put some research into the job market around here. All she has to do is call a temp agency and she’ll be fully operational. So you can tell your employer that this strategy isn’t working.”

He moved so quickly that I only got the sense of motion before he was inches in front of me, his arms planted on either side of my head. He moved one hand, slowing when I flinched, and tilted my chin up. Power coursed from him, scrabbling over my skin before it sank, throbbing, into my chest.

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