Vampires of Manhattan by Melissa de la Cruz

Author:Melissa de la Cruz
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal, Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2014-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

18 TROPHY WIFE

MORE THAN ANYTHING, after years as the mortal woman behind the immortal vampire, she wanted to be more than an appendage, more than a helpmeet. The titles the Coven bestowed on its human kin were so… well, not degrading exactly, but they were so inferior. Human Conduit, as if she were an electric current; human familiar was even worse—as if she were a cat, a pet, something that needed care and shelter. Finn knew Oliver did not think of her that way, that he, more than anyone in the Coven, understood what it was like to be her, understood what it was like to be in her place. He had once been both Conduit and familiar to Schuyler Van Alen, after all, so he had known what it was like to be weak, mortal, the supporting cast, the secondary player. The Coven feared mortals only for their greater numbers, but individually, mortals were nothing to them. And Finn didn’t want to feel like nothing.

Especially now, as she stood in a place that largely resembled nowhere. At least nowhere she wanted to be.

Finn was waiting in the lobby of a building in faraway Fort Greene—if one could call a grimy hallway with a service elevator a lobby. There were watermarks on what remained of beige floral wallpaper that was well past its prime, and the ceiling was stained with a meandering pattern of ripples and puddles the color of coffee. Sometimes she forgot this part of New York still existed, given her life with Oliver.

Finn shivered and shifted her weight on her stacked metallic heels.

The artist she was visiting was late, and Finn had been standing and waiting for almost fifteen minutes now. She guessed she shouldn’t complain, as visiting grimy buildings in sketchy neighborhoods was part of her job now.

Now that things had changed.

Wanting to prove to everyone—most of all herself—that she was more than a trophy, more than just a pretty girl on his arm, that she was not merely decorative and ornamental, Finn had lobbied for an office across from Oliver’s, for a real position in the Coven leadership and meaningful work. She was the First Lady, wasn’t she? Officially or not? If Blue Blood traditionalists didn’t like the idea of a mortal entrenched in the highest levels of vampire leadership, they could go, well, suck off. A little arm-twisting from Oliver had secured her the title of cultural liaison, which gave her the responsibility of running the Overland Foundation’s arts grants, among other social duties. Last year while she was poring over a few old books from the Repository, she had discovered a project where her talents could really shine and that she could take as her own little baby—to show the Coven what she could do. The Four Hundred Ball.

The one night that the world of the Blue Bloods showed itself in all its splendor and glory to the city of New York. Their night to shine.

And mine, she thought.

The community hadn’t had one in years.

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