When Blood Calls by J.K. Beck

Author:J.K. Beck [Beck, J.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Published: 2010-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Sara raced through the halls of Division, part of her wondering what the hell she was doing, and another part fearing she was going to be too damn late.“No,” she yelled into the phone at the Security Section desk drone. “Constantine. With a C, dammit, and I’m prosecuting this case with Nostramo Bosch. You engage that security device and I will have your ass in a sling.”

“A termination request has been input,” the drone said.

“And I’m overriding it, dammit.” She didn’t have a clue whether she had authority to do that, but she damn well intended to make the argument. She hurried onto the elevator and pressed the button for sublevel nine. “Just wait for me. Don’t do anything until I get there.”

No answer.

She pulled the phone away from her ear and stared at it. Call failed. No signal.

Dammit, dammit, dammit.

She jammed her thumb on the elevator button, as if that would make the thing move faster, but she couldn’t simply stand and do nothing. Dear God, what if they did it? What if they killed Luke?

She closed her eyes and forced herself to breathe, remembering the way his voice had sounded when she’d answered the phone in her apartment only minutes earlier. She’d already dismissed the Shade—claiming a nightmare and a foolish impulse to push the panic button—and she’d been sitting on the floor, her back to the glass, trying to figure out what had come over her. Why she’d let Luke stay.

Why she’d let him touch her like that.

“Sara,” he’d said. “I need help.”

She’d remembered the way his face had hardened, the way he’d bared his fangs, and she’d almost hung up.

“Wait,” he’d demanded, and so help her, she had.

“What is it, Luke? What could possibly make you think you have the right to call me now?”

“No right,” he’d said. “No expectation. Just hope, Sara.” He needed intervention, he’d said. The fall to her pool deck had injured him, and there was no way he could return to where he’d left his advocate before Security Section activated the stake around his heart.

“I’m going back to Division,” he’d said, “but even that’s no guarantee. I need help, Sara. Will you speak for me?”

She hadn’t answered, her mind too filled with the remnants of both fear and longing, but after she’d hung up, she’d dialed Division.

She told herself that she was stepping in because she wouldn’t see a man condemned without a trial, but she knew it was a lie. He’d touched something within her and she had to know why. Had to understand more fully this burning within her. A burning for him. This vampire. This murderer.

The elevator doors slid open and she raced through, pounding the redial button even as her eyes scoured the hall for someone with authority. But down here, where Security and Detention were accessed through long concrete halls, there was no one but her. “Is he there?” she demanded the moment the drone answered the call. “Is Dragos there?”

“He arrived,” the drone said.

“Then

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