Unforgiven by D. B. Reynolds

Author:D. B. Reynolds
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BelleBooks, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

PASCAL GLANCED over at Alexandra. She hadn’t said a word since they’d driven away from Raphael’s estate, but he could feel the buzz of excitement rolling off of her as she stared out the window of the luxury sedan he’d rented. It wasn’t his usual style. He preferred sports cars, the faster the better. But his mistress had told him what she knew about Alexandra before sending him off on this assignment. She’d told him how Raphael had pampered his younger sister for so long, how he’d built that silly French mansion just for her to live in so she could pretend the centuries hadn’t passed in the world outside. Pascal had actually been surprised, when he’d finally met her, to discover that she’d decorated her prison cell with modern furniture and been dressed like an ordinary woman of this century.

But while Alexandra appeared finally to have come into the 21st century, she was still every inch the pampered princess. Her clothes, the furnishings in her cell, had all been of the highest quality. So Pascal had figured she’d appreciate the comforts of a fine motor car, and he’d been right. She’d stroked the soft leather and said, “My brother has leather in all of his limos. His SUVs, too. He has only the latest models.”

And then she’d instructed him to change the music to something classic in the traditional sense, rather than the classical jazz that he preferred. And, yes, he meant instructed. Alexandra seemed to think of herself as royalty, and he, no more than the knave who’d been sent to rescue her. He’d half-expected her to sit in the back seat instead of up front with him.

“My brother bought me a concert grand piano, did you know that?”

Pascal grunted a noncommittal response, and she kept talking.

“It was beautiful, a Steinway.”

Pascal rolled his eyes. What the fuck did he care?

“Where will we rest tonight?” she asked him suddenly, still gazing out the window.

“On the plane.”

She turned to stare at him, her eyes wide. “A plane?”

“Yes.” He swallowed the “my lady” that wanted to spring unbidden to his lips. There was something about Alexandra that sent him back to an era he’d only read about, a time long before he’d even been born as a human, much less a vampire.

He could hardly wait to dump her on his mistress’s doorstep.

“My mistress is waiting for us in Mexico. It’s too far to drive, not safely anyway. Raphael and the others would catch up with us. Your brother has too many human resources at his disposal.”

“Of course,” she agreed. “Raphael will spare no effort to find me.”

Pascal was beginning to suspect Alexandra wasn’t entirely sane. She’d made that last declaration as if it was a good thing, as if she’d been kidnapped unwillingly and her brother’s search would be motivated by love and concern, rather than anger at her escape. Then again, Pascal suspected Alexandra might be right on some level. If any other vampire had betrayed Raphael the way she had, that vampire would have been dusted long ago.

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