Twilight Vendetta by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 25538473
Publisher: Thunder foot Publishing
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

After her torture and transformation, Emma had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep for the remaining hours of the day. When night fell again, she’d come awake all at once, and since then, had been pacing her cell like a caged lion, wondering about the extent of her powers. She was a vampire. There was no questioning it. The fangs were her proof, but the way she felt was even more proof. She wanted to get out of here. She wanted to see how fast she could run, how high she could jump, how well she could talk to other vampires with the power of her mind alone.

She felt like Spiderman after the bite. Like a super hero. Like a goddess.

And then some a-hole guard marched up to her cell and darted her with DPI’s favorite vampire tranquilizer, and she was out again.

When she woke again, she was strapped to that same table in that same room where she’d been before, when they’d almost killed her. Only this time the table had been tipped upright, so her feet were on the floor, and she was standing. The straps were back in place, and this time they’d added one around her waist and another around her forehead to keep her from moving it overly much.

Emma felt the texture of the straps against her skin, the tackiness of the vinyl covered padding on the table behind her. She felt the coolness of the cement floor beneath her bare feet, and the low thread count in the cotton hospital gown she wore. It had been put on her from the front and wasn’t fastened in the back, so it barely stayed put on her shoulders.

The two people in the room with her were the same two from before. Commander Hobbs, who was apparently in charge of this secret DPI-run prison, and the woman in the white lab coat, who was, she gathered, in charge of the torture itself.

“Dr. Mengele, I presume,” she said, and almost smiled at the beautiful music that was her own voice. She’d never heard it so thoroughly before, and during her time alone in the cell, she’d had little call to speak out loud.

“That’s not funny,” the woman said.

“It’s accurate, though.”

Emma thought she heard the woman say, “It’s not the same at all. It’s really not. They’re not human beings. They’re vampires. Animals.” Only the doctor hadn’t moved her mouth at all.

Oh my God, I’m reading her thoughts! Emma realized it with a little surge of awe at her newfound powers. So many of them. So much to learn. She said, “I was a human being until you two changed me. And now you’re going to torture me for information I don’t have. When what you should be doing is talking to me. My God, don’t you want to know what I’m feeling? How this change has affected me?”

The doctor did want to know. Emma felt it in her, but Hobbs spoke first. “The only thing we want to know right now is where your friend is.

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