SNAP: New Talent (The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles) by Drier Michele

Author:Drier, Michele [Drier, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

The room was so still I could hear my heart pounding.

It must have been loud because Jean-Louis looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I shrugged back. I know that the sound of hearts pumping blood through a regular’s cardiovascular system was a dangerous attraction to vampires, so I willed myself to be silent.

Willing my heart to slow though, didn’t even put a parking brake on my mind. It was racing in circles, getting me nowhere.

What did he know? Whatever it was, it was enough for Matthais to want to wipe out the entire Kandesky family. He was willing to declare war, and kill off much of his own family to win.

Jean-Louis stood. “That’s land I don’t want to plow tonight. He and I and the Baron know what hatred Matthais bears us. We will have to solve that another night. It is not a secret I can share, and has no bearing on what we must do to stop him from his current madness.

“Come, Sandor and I will accompany you back.”

This time I didn’t beg to go. I’d had enough of that tunnel and, frankly, Jean-Louis scared me when he was in this state.

I headed up to my apartment. To wait. To worry until I heard him at my door, safe again.

I couldn’t go to bed until I knew, so I curled up by the fireplace with a new mystery that Jazz had sent. Something, some noise was working its way into the plot of the mystery and I knew it didn’t belong. Like an old theater when somebody mixed up the movie reels. Growls, low-pitched snarls? In a New York high-rise?

I dropped the book and bolted out of the chair. No! Those were noises coming from outside, and coming louder and faster! Elise came running in just as the door opened. A demon said, “Turn out the light. Get away from the window.”

Well, of course I was going to obey a demon when Jean-Louis was still somewhere out there. I did use a little stealth. I eased the edge of a curtain back just as the outside lights blazed on. It was the pigs, they’d banded together and caught a demon in the Neutrality. He was strong and he was fast, but there were about a dozen of the feral boars chasing him. One of them had managed to gore the demon’s thigh which was streaming blood that looked black in the intense light.

The others in the band went into blood-lust at the smell and attacked and attacked, screaming in ear-piercing fury. The demon was putting up a good fight. He wrestled his gun out and shot, killing one pig, but they just charged and overwhelmed him, gouging with their tusks and pounding with their sharp hooves.

One hooked his arm and his gun went flying, followed by his arm, torn off his body.

This whole scene wasn’t more that a few seconds long, because half-a-dozen demons flooded the terrace, shooting pigs left and right. Four of the pigs fell and the rest fled into the woods, demons in pursuit.

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