Susan Sizemore - 04 Master of Darkness by Susan Sizemore

Author:Susan Sizemore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“How nice to see you.” There was acid in the sweet tone of her aunt’s voice.

“Hello, Aunt Michele.”

She wanted to ask, how’d you find me? And, what are you doing here? But it was known in the family that this was her favorite coffee shop in a small open air mall near the condo development that was her real home.

Aunt Michele was called in when total psychological domination was called for.

“Here for an intervention, are you?” Eden asked.

She was already annoyed with the rest of the hunter team, and now this. A lot of progress had been made on the Dawn problem, but to hear the rest of the team tell it, she was somehow being corrupted going soft by having spent a couple of days in the company of Sid Wolf.

“That, and a latte,” her aunt answered, sitting opposite her in the coffee shop’s back booth. She eyed the shopping bags next to Eden. “Isn’t Bosworth’s a men’s store?”

“Yes, Aunt Michele.”

While her aunt’s tone hadn’t exactly been accusing, Eden hated that her answer had been accompanied by a twinge of guilt.

What did she have to be guilty for?

“Are you running errands for one of them now?”

This time Aunt Michele’s tone was distinctly more hostile, and there was a disappointed look in her eyes. Her father’s sister, Michele Darabont, was not officially a Purist the radical sect of vampire killers the hunters officially disavowed. But rumor had it that she was in contact with the leaders of the Purist fanatics, and she certainly didn’t disagree with their agenda.

“We’re working out of the safe house. He didn’t have a chance to bring any clothes with him.”

“This person has a lair,” Michele pointed out. “Contacts of his own. Your serving him like this is just the sort of thing they expect.”

“I picked up a few things on my own initiative. He didn’t ask me for anything.”

Aunt Michele was silent while a very large cup of coffee with a high head of frothed milk was set before her and the waitress moved out of earshot. She glared reprovingly at Eden, who glared right back, refusing to flinch.

“He’ll accept what you offer as though it’s his right, and you’ll get used to his high-handed behavior. Perhaps you already are.

They’re insidious and subtle. They don’t even notice their own arrogance because, after all, they are Prime.” She snorted derisively. “Prime users. Prime takers.”

“I’ve heard this lecture all my life, Aunt Michele. I know the drill.”

“But this is the first time any of our own have had to deal face-to-face with them for an extended time. Remember your training.

Believe what I tell you now.”

This was getting old. And very, very annoying. “Wolf’s helping us.”

“For his own purposes. His loyalty is to his Clan.”

“I understand that. But as long as the problem is solved, and no humans get hurt, who cares?”

Besides, the hunters were working with the vampires for their own purposes, too. Nobody’s motives were clean and pure.

Keeping the Tribes in line served both sides of the alliance.

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