Vampire Innocent | Book 12 | Ancient Vampire Death Cults & Other Annoyances by Cox Matthew S

Author:Cox, Matthew S. [Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy | Dark Humor
ISBN: 978-1-950738-38-0
Publisher: Division Zero Press
Published: 2020-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

18

A More than Occasional Advantage

I guess there comes a time in everyone’s life where they find themselves in a situation they never imagined possible.

My life in particular has given me a whole bunch of those moments. A year ago, if anyone told me I’d need to figure out how best to kidnap a police officer, I’d have told them to stop smoking weed. Here I am standing over the body of Officer John Trujillo as he struggles to break the handcuffs chaining him to a generator.

The situation is somewhat more complex than merely kidnapping a law officer. For one, he tried to kill me. He’s also a thrall in service of Arthur Wolent. Not sure if he’s literally Wolent’s thrall, but he’s part of the organization. Bigger problem: he’s presently been kicked out of his body by an Oblivare soul. The reliquary in the trunk of his police car objected to me taking it.

Some vampires luck into the powers of undeath. The Oblivare have to urn it.

Gah. Dad. I blame you for making me think these things.

Back to the problem at hand. As long as I stay underground in this parking garage, I’m online. Consequently, the possessed cop isn’t a problem. It’s still daylight out, so taking this guy out of here is impossible. Even if I handcuffed him into a human pretzel knot, the instant the sun’s on me, I wouldn’t be strong enough to carry a man this size. Perhaps with great effort—and assuming he did nothing to resist—I could drag him across the floor, but no way are we going up the stairs. And someone would definitely spot us. It’s not unreasonable to expect the sight of someone attempting to kidnap a tied-up cop would result in badness. Best case scenario, someone calls the police. Worst, I get a Rambo wannabe jumping on me—then the possessed cop tears us both apart.

Can’t take him out of here and I don’t want to leave him.

He’s also going to hurt himself if he keeps fighting the cuffs. Hmm. He’s still alive, right?

I grab a fistful of hair and pull his head back to stare into his eyes. The purple light shining out of his irises intensifies in rage. So creepy. Peering into his head is like I’ve opened a door into Hell and a dozen demons stop in mid-orgy to stare at me making ‘do you mind?’ faces. It’s a chaotic mess of random freaky images. In much the same way the average person’s reaction to seeing a giant bug crawl out onto the desk in front of them is immediate smash without thinking, I hammer his brain with a compulsion to sleep.

Officer Trujillo passes out. Or at least, his body does. The actual Officer Trujillo is standing next to me as a ghost.

“What happened?” he whispers.

“Sleep. He’s going to keep fighting until he tears your hands off. And someone’s probably going to hear him growling and come down here to investigate who’s doing what to a Norwegian heavy metal singer.

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