Tempted by a Vampire (Immortal Hearts of San Francisco Book 1) by Susan Griscom

Author:Susan Griscom [Griscom, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Magdalena

The ride home from Cian’s was very unsettling at first. I still had a ton of questions. Though I knew I would keep Cian’s secret, I still had doubts as to whether or not I wanted to continue a relationship with him.

He was a vampire!

And that was a frightening thought. What was more frightening, was that I had agreed to see him again. Tonight.

There I was, in a limousine with Ari, and from what I’d gathered, he was basically a human slave to Cian and his brother. I sat in the back, still unsure of everything Cian had told me.

“Ari?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you like living at that house and taking care of Cian and Lane?”

He laughed. “I knew you’d eventually ask me that.” He glanced at me through the rearview mirror. “Yeah, I do. You won’t find two people more decent than Cian and Lane. Not even human ones. They saved my life, you know.”

“Yes, Cian told me.”

“I owe them a lot. They took me in and let me stay in that huge house of theirs for free. Plus, they pay me very well for helping them through the daylight hours, doing things they can’t do when the sun is out.”

“They pay you?”

“Fuck, yeah. What’d you think? I was some vampire slave?”

“I didn’t know what to think,” I admitted.

“They pay all their employees.”

“They have more employees?”

“Who do you think does all that cooking and keeps the place clean? Not me.”

“I hadn’t thought about it. Do all the employees know what they are?”

“No. I’m the only one.”

“Weren’t you frightened when you first learned about their…”

“Vampirism?”

I nodded.

“Maybe. A little. But you have to realize that I woke up in that house in a clean room, on a clean bed with nice linens, and I’d come down from a near death high thanks to them and their blood. To wake up in an environment like that after being shitfaced down in a gutter full of puke and urine, believe me, I didn’t ask too many questions about my rescuers.”

Ari pulled the car up to the curb in front of my apartment building. He put the car in park and turned around to look at me, placing his arm on the back of the seat. “Listen, Cian’s got a heart of gold, and I know he’d never hurt you. Try to remember that.”

I gave him a smile. “Thanks.”

“And just so you know, I’d do anything for him and Lane.”

“Thanks for the ride, Ari.” I got out of the car and shut the door. In the elevator, I thought about Vanessa. I couldn’t tell her about Cian and Lane. I’d never been much of a liar, so I hoped she wouldn’t see through me this time.

It was quiet inside the apartment. “Vanessa?”

When she didn’t answer, I yelled out again. Still no response. A huge sigh of relief came out of me that she wasn’t home, even though I now worried about where she was. It was eight-thirty in the morning. If Vanessa was gone this early on a Saturday morning, that meant she probably hadn’t come home last night.

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