When Shadows Call by Amanda Bonilla

Author:Amanda Bonilla [Amanda Bonilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Shaede Assassin
ISBN: 9781101562185
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2012-06-05T17:20:39+00:00

Chapter 7

Azriel told me once that when you live forever, a week can pass in the blink of an eye. Fifteen years did just that. The world changed around us, and I welcomed it just as I’d embraced my transformation from human to Shaede so many years ago. We lived in exciting times. Tumultuous times. And there was much to keep the ambitious occupied.

“You know, you could make good money as a rum runner.” I fiddled with the fringe on my knee-length dress rather than meet Azriel’s gaze.

When I finally looked up, he gave me a sardonic smile. Fifteen years, and I still felt butterflies swirl in my stomach as if we’d only just met. “I don’t care about the money.” He drained the last of his bourbon and set the glass down on the table. “Besides, where’s the challenge in that? Half of the police force is paid off, and the politicians . . . ? Volstead Act or not, they’ve all got cases of liquor in their basements. Prohibition is a scam. Any idiot could run booze down from Canada.”

I knew how Azriel spent his free time. He was right, we didn’t need the money. Azriel had enough to keep us comfortable for the rest of our lives. No, transporting illegal alcohol across the Washington border from Canada just didn’t have the thrill that killing did. He’d become an assassin. And he lived for that excitement. Azriel spent his nights killing for money, and I waited at home like an obedient wife. Though in truth, I was neither. I craved excitement, as well. I needed something to fill the endless days that spread out before me like the rolling waves of the ocean.

“Does what I do offend your moral sensibilities, my love?”

I looked at the people around us. Men and women whose lives would pass in moments compared to my own eternal existence. “No.” And that was the truth. I’d become something apart from humanity. Besides, I knew what the dregs of their kind were capable of. There were a good many of them who deserved to die.

Azriel pulled the cork from the bottle of bourbon and refilled his glass. “Then what is it?”

I sipped my martini and squared my shoulders before I answered him. “I want to go with you the next time you take a job.” He leaned back in his chair and laughed, nice and loud. I narrowed my eyes, not pleased that he considered my request humorous. “Do you think this is a joke?”

“Oh, not at all, my love.” Azriel took my hand in his and brought my palm to his lips. “On the contrary, I find the idea quite . . . appealing.”

The seductive tone of Azriel’s voice caused my stomach to tie itself into tiny knots, and I smiled. I felt a sense of power at the way I could arouse him so easily. And he’d demonstrated, time and again, that he could do the same to me.

“Tomorrow night,” he said, rounding the table and pulling me out of my chair.

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