The Vampire Trap by Rachel Morgan

Author:Rachel Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rachel Morgan

Somewhere near the top of a high-rise apartment building in Vale City, Azriel sat at a polished oak table contemplating his most recent failure. The aches and pains from his earlier encounter with the three fae had just about faded, but his wounded pride remained.

On the other side of the table, a blond man poured himself a drink. He could have been about thirty years old, or he could have been three hundred. He could have been older or younger than Azriel. It was impossible to tell with vampires, and it didn’t matter. Age was simply a number.

Without offering Azriel a drink, the man dragged a chair out from beneath the table, letting it scrape slowly across the floor. He sat. He swirled the amber liquid in his glass before placing it on the table. “I’m disappointed, Azriel. You came highly recommended, but I’m starting to doubt your abilities. After Leroy spotted her at that party and called you, I figured it was a done deal. What happened?”

Azriel folded his arms and took a calming breath as he stared out of the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling windows at the glimmering city lights. He didn’t appreciate being told off like a child, but it wouldn’t do to lose his temper. “It was a setup, Lev. Somebody wanted to catch me.”

“I see. Well, aren’t you special.”

Azriel’s hands clenched into fists beneath his arms. “Not particularly. I assume somebody wants answers, and they’ll take them from whoever they can get hold of.”

“Well, if it really was a setup—and who knows whether you’re simply being paranoid—then I can’t send you out again. This girl and her friends will recognize you. The only way we’ll make this work is if I send someone they haven’t seen before.”

“Like me?” The voice came from the shadowed doorway leading to the bedrooms. Azriel knew without having to look that it was Nik, Lev’s son. He’d met Nik several times when he first joined the Allegiant.

“Perhaps,” Lev said as Nik walked forward. With their matching white-blond hair, red eyes and unlined faces, they could have been brothers instead of father and son.

“Nik,” Azriel said, inclining his head in a brief nod of greeting. “How’s it going being experimented on?”

Nik rolled his shoulders. “To be honest, I’ve never felt better. Younger. More powerful. I wonder if this is what those insufferable fae feel like all the time.”

Azriel hated to show an interest, but he couldn’t hide his curiosity. “So it’s working?”

“Feels like it.”

Azriel looked at Lev. “If you’ve figured out how to do it, then why are we hunting down this girl?”

“I don’t know the complete method,” Lev said. “It’s possible I’m leaving something out. Something important. That’s why I need her. And I’d have her by now if you hadn’t failed three times.”

“I did find her,” Azriel reminded him quietly.

“True. That is something. But not enough, she’s currently still out there.”

Azriel decided not to argue. He was certain he could catch the girl if given another chance, but if Lev had other plans, that was fine.

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