The Witch and the Gentleman by J.R. Rain

Author:J.R. Rain [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

After my training session, and after I had showered and changed at the gym, I headed straight to the Beverly Hills Police Department.

This wasn’t my first time here. I’d been brought in for questioning on the night my vampire boyfriend had been found with a silver arrow in his chest. The police wanted answers and grilled me relentlessly about my murdered boyfriend. I told them I hadn’t a clue who’d broken into the house, or why my boyfriend had been shot in his sleep, with an arrow, no less. Or why the man had spared me.

Truth was, the man had nearly sent an arrow into my own chest, too. Never had I been so afraid, or so devastated. The vampire hunter had shown some compassion towards me, and listed a handful of murders around Los Angeles that my now-dead boyfriend, whose blood was even then pooling in the bed next to me, had committed. I didn’t doubt the hunter. I knew my boyfriend was a killer. But I was addicted to him. Or, more accurately, addicted to him feeding from me.

Few knew that a vampire’s victim derived just as much pleasure from the feeding as did the vampire himself. And I derived much, much pleasure. More importantly, with each feeding, I could feel my psychic powers increasing, sharpening.

Anyway, I had been hauled down here for questioning, twice. The police had been baffled over my boyfriend’s murder. They were certain I had something to do with it. I had been a go-go dancer before meeting Victor. For two months, I’d lived well. No, I’d lived like a queen. A true whirlwind romance of lovemaking, feeding and shopping. Honestly, what more could a girl want?

But I kept to my story: a break-in, I’d awakened to find Victor gasping, and a man standing in the doorway holding a crossbow. Those were the facts. I neglected to mention a few additional facts. That Victor was a vampire, that he had killed often, and that he was getting his just due by a vampire hunter.

Just or not, his murder tore me up for a long, long time. I had literally been addicted to him, to the feeding, to the lifestyle, even to what I thought had been love.

The police, of course, didn’t like it, but in the end, my story held up purely through forensic evidence. Ample evidence of a break-in, and a murder weapon that I had no association with. That I could have staged the break-in with another, to rob my boyfriend, was a possibility they had brought up. I reminded them that I was already living with Victor. Already being treated like royalty, and that I was in love with the man.

It was pointed out by another cop that nothing had, in fact, been stolen, and there was no sign of foul play, or that I was trying to extort Victor. In the end, it was decided that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the case, as far as I know, was still open.

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