The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire by Harper Molly

Author:Harper, Molly [Harper, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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You will be thrown into situations that will shock and unsettle you. It’s important to maintain your composure, no matter what you see, hear, or have splattered on your shirt.

—The Office After Dark: A Guide to Maintaining a Safe, Productive Vampire Workplace

I was not as good at office espionage-slash-witch-hunting as I’d hoped.

I searched every Internet database I could think of for Renarts. I even tried a few not quite legal avenues to government records, suffering the indignities of an Internet café/bait shop’s so-called free Wi-Fi because I didn’t want the search traced back to me. I even tried searching the descendant database to see if Marie Renart had children with Linoge and they might be listed in our information. No dice. The Renarts had disappeared entirely with Jennifer Renart. I found her birth record, evidence of her high school graduation, and then nothing. No college enrollment, no marriage certificate, no death certificate, no evidence that she’d legally changed her name. Her paper trail disintegrated into nothing, almost impossible in today’s world.

Had she gone into hiding? Had the vampires made her disappear? Why was she hiding?

I was stewing over this series of failures when my desk phone rang, and the Council’s front desk staff announced that I had a visitor. I pushed up from my desk, a confused frown firmly in place as I marched up to reception. Who would visit me here? Cal and Iris wouldn’t be stopped at the front desk. They had high-clearance credentials that let them sail through whenever they felt like it. Maybe it was one of my other vampire friends?

I poked my head through the reception door to find Nola waiting for me. She was wearing her nurse scrubs and carrying a medical bag labeled “Half-Moon Hollow Clinic.” She looked very official, and I was officially confused.

“No—”

Nola launched herself out of the chair and prevented me from uttering anything else. “No, Miss Scanlon, no refusals this time. The doctor insists that you get this treatment regularly. And if I have to meet you at work for your convenience, so be it.”

Clipping her visitor’s pass into place on her shirt, Nola made a very clear “just play along” face and gave Jerry the front-desk clerk the side-eye. I nodded. “Ohhh, I guess, if the doctor insists.”

“There’s a conference room on your floor that you can use for privacy, Gigi,” Jerry said in a helpful tone. “I hope you feel better.”

I made a weird raspberry sound. “It’s nothing,

really.”

“Pernicious anemia is hardly nothing!” Nola exclaimed, as the door shut behind her.

“Pernicious anemia?” I asked.

“It’s a real thing,” Nola whispered. “And the rumor of your having it will make you very unattractive to any vampires thinking of feeding on you.”

I pushed her into the nearest empty conference room. Why did my workplace have so many damn conference rooms? “Thanks, I think,” I muttered, making a mental note to text Nik a not really dangerously anemic message. “And as much as I appreciate visits in the middle of my workday, what are you doing here?”

She nodded toward one of the chairs.

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