Veil of Midnight by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, Vampires, Paranormal Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, General, Romance, Fantasy, Occult Fiction, Fiction, Psychics, Occult & Supernatural, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780440244493
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2009-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

A pair of halogen high-beams pierced the blanket of fog that spilled down onto the valley road from Vermont’s densely forested Green Mountains. In the backseat, the chauffeured vehicle’s passenger stared impatiently at the dark landscape, his Breed eyes throwing off amber reflections in the opaque glass. He was pissed off, and after speaking with Edgar Fabien, his contact in Montreal, he had ample reason to be upset. The only glimmer of promise had been the fact that amid all the recent fuckups and disasters narrowly averted, somehow, Sergei Yakut was dead and, in the process, Fabien had managed to net a member of the Order.

Unfortunately, that small victory had been short-lived. Just a few hours ago, Fabien had sheepishly reported that the Breed warrior had escaped the containment facility and was currently at large with the female who’d apparently aided him. If Fabien’s hands weren’t already full with the other important business he’d been assigned, the Montreal Darkhaven leader might be getting an unexpected visit tonight as well. He could deal with Fabien later.

Annoyed by this mandatory detour through cow country, what infuriated him the most by far was the recent malfunction of his best, most effective instrument.

Failure simply could not be tolerated. One mistake was one too many, and, like a watchdog that suddenly turns on its owner, there was only one viable solution for the problem awaiting him up this particular stretch of rural backcountry road: termination.

The vehicle slowed and made a right off the asphalt, onto a bumpy dirt one-laner. A rambling Colonial-era stone fence and half a dozen tall oaks and maples lined the drive that led up to an old white farmhouse with a wide, wraparound porch. The car came to a stop in front of a big red barn around the back of the house. The driver—a Minion—got out, walked around to the rear passenger door, and opened it for his vampire Master.

“Sire,” the human mind slave said with a deferential bow of his head.

The Breed male inside the car climbed out, sniffing derisively at the taint of livestock in the so-called fresh night air. His senses were no less offended as he turned his head toward the house and saw the dim light of a table lamp glowing in one of the rooms, the inane yammering of a television game show drifting out of the open windows.

“Wait here,” he instructed his driver. “This won’t take long.”

Stones crunching under his polished leather loafers, he walked over the gravel to the covered porch steps leading to the farmhouse’s back door. It was locked, for all that it mattered. He willed the bolt open and strode inside the blue-and-white gingham-trimmed eyesore of a kitchen. As the door creaked closed behind him, a middle-aged human male holding a shotgun came in from the hallway.

“Master,” he gasped, setting the rifle down on the countertop. “Forgive me. I wasn’t aware that you, ah…that you w-were coming.” The Minion stammered, anxious, and evidently wise enough to know that this was no social call.

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