Slippery Souls by Rachael H. Dixon

Author:Rachael H. Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: british author, british novel, british writer, trilogy supernatural, horror and paranormal, british zombie series, horror and dark humor, british vampires, british urban fantasy werewolves vampires witches faerie, faery heroine fantasy
Publisher: Rachael H. Dixon

Chapter 15

1:31pm: Knickerbocker Gloria’s, Sunray Bay

Bob Swinburn led the way up the staircase, his partner Jack Fryatt close behind. They were both Peace & Order Maintenance Officers and neither was a stranger to the second floor of Knickerbocker Gloria’s. When Krain had issued instructions for the whole town to be stripped and searched, Swinburn and Fryatt had made their way to the areas surrounding Knickerbocker Gloria’s first. They’d explored most of the side streets before heading to the exotic dance bar, hoping their ruse for a bit of afternoon skiving wouldn’t be detected. While everyone else in Peace & Order Maintenance was so preoccupied, a quick dance or two from the Knickerbocker girls was sure to go unnoticed. They knew the layout of the building as well as they knew their own homes and when they reached the first floor landing Bob said, “Suppose we’d better check these rooms for formality’s sake.”

Jack smiled; his gleaming teeth more prominent than Bob’s. Bob had a mouth full of yellowed gnashers that looked like bow saw blades. He was living proof that not all vampires were fortunate enough to brandish the trademark style of Hollywood. He’d thought on numerous occasions that he’d like to get them fixed one day, replace his own sorry-looking set with straight, white porcelain veneers, inclusive of two sweet little fangs a la Christopher Lee’s Dracula. The financial aspect was always enough to put him off, but he could dream.

Despite not being blessed in the looks department, Bob did consider himself lucky in that he didn’t have an allergy to garlic like Jack did. Life without pasta and flatbread pizza just wouldn’t be worth living. He was also pleased he didn’t have an aversion to sunlight. Jack’s skin was pallid and greasy underneath a thick layer of factor fifty sunscreen, whereas his own skin was the colour of soaked teabags. Apart from aesthetically displeasing teeth Bob did have quite a reputable heritage, all things considered. Coming from good sturdy stock, he could smell like a shark, see like a hawk, hear like a dog and climb surfaces like Spiderman. The only thing, apart from perfect teeth, that the Swinburn lineage hadn’t mastered was immortality. But that wasn’t bad going because no vampire bloodline had mastered it – not as far as he was aware.

Now standing on the landing he tried hard to focus on the official task at hand, ignoring the pulsing red behind his eyes; a feeling that usually accompanied the desire for blood. He could smell the girls upstairs and he’d been ignoring his cravings for too long. He often wondered how on earth he managed to control himself, to suppress his urges. The simple truth was he still enjoyed the old, illicit ways. There was nothing better than tasting fresh blood straight from its living source, and he thought it a sad state of affairs that Krain had completely changed the natural ways of the vampire social order.

Finnbane Krain, the mayor of Sunray Bay, no longer

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