Tainted Blood (Hell's Belle Book 2) by Greco Karen

Author:Greco, Karen [Greco, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-19T02:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The capacity crowd of mostly disaffected youth danced themselves into a small frenzy during the opening act, amping up the energy in the venue.

"You sure you can hear me over all this screaming?" I muttered to my chest. It wasn't my idea to wear a low cut V-neck tee, but Darcy insisted on a microphone placed in the middle of my cleavage.

"It's almost like I have vampire hearing," she responded.

I snorted. So much for my own vampire hearing. My earpiece was turned almost all the way up to hear over the noise of the crowd.

"I can't see you," Max's voice thundered in the earpiece.

"Can you flash something?" Darcy giggled at the 7th grade humor. I pulled out my Zippo and sparked it up for about 10 seconds. I caught a similar flicker across the room, and closed the lid quickly. We had visual contact.

Apart from my low cut t-shirt, I was outfitted in my black bomber jacket, unzipped just enough to keep the microphone uncovered, and my combat blacks, including a knit skullcap in case the stage lights caught my copper-flecked highlights. A chain-mail choker kept my carotid artery safe from any hungry (or angry) vamps.

Surveying the crowd around me, I was glad I opted for "blend into the walls" rather than "blend into the crowd." These kids were exactly that, kids. Barely 18; maybe a sprinkling of 20-somethings. And while my half-vampire nature ages me more slowly than normal people, I felt like a damn granny next to them.

They were a strange bunch. The women wore leather skirts and halter-tops, the men skinny leather pants and tanks. I didn't fit in with this crowd. I was surrounded by a bunch of Kitties.

"Darcy, you look lovely this evening. Have I told you that?" Matty's voice boomed in my earpiece. "The black really brings out your...pale."

I gritted my teeth and punched impatiently at the black-painted brick wall beside me.

"Matty, that's a lovely thing to say to Darcy. But we really need to keep this channel open," I said calmly.

"It is open," he said. "I can hear you just fine."

"That's not what keeping the channel open means," I said, leaving off the words "you fuckwit." It was not my idea to give my moron cousin access to our communication system. Bertrand insisted, in case Matty needed us. "It means no talking on this frequency unless it has to do with the operation."

"It does have to do with the operation! It has to do with her looking all hot in her operational outfit."

Great. It took all my willpower not to storm backstage and kick the living crap out of my idiot cousin.

"Let it go, Nina," Max said. Based on his tone, he was annoyed too. At least I wasn't alone in my irritation.

I glanced over at him. There was no way Max blended into this crowd. Every guy had jet black, blue or purple hair spiked up into a style similar to Matty. When Matty pulled out an extra pair of skinny black leather pants from his luggage, Max actually paled at the threat of wearing them.

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