White Nights: A Vampires of Manhattan Novel by Melissa de la Cruz

Author:Melissa de la Cruz [de la Cruz, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-11T06:00:00+00:00

16 | The Silver Trail

Ara had lost Finn’s trail – if it really was Finn. The girl she’d seen, beautiful and blonde, had climbed into a silver car and soared away. Ara had managed to hail a cab and follow, all the way across this island, and the next and then the next. So many islands, so much confusion. She didn’t know where the hell she was going.

They passed high-end designer stores like Chanel and Hermes, chic department stores, restaurants with looping velvet ropes outside. This made some kind of sense to Ara: if the woman she was following was Finn Chase, then she’d head for what she knew – luxury and wealth. Finn Chase wasn’t the kind to be hanging out under a bridge, drinking from a plastic cup. She would seek out some ritzy club in an expensive neighborhood, finding some Swedish version of her Uptown life. Ara had grown out of all that. Some girls never did.

The traffic snarled on one busy street, and the silver car slipped away like an eel, zipping between other cars while all Ara’s cab driver could manage was a crawl.

“Hurry – we’re losing the other car!” she shouted, but all he did was gesture at the police cars along the side of the road, and a man in uniform waving traffic into another lane. Drivers behind them were honking. The sidewalk was packed with people, most of them standing around rather than walking. The driver buzzed his window down and leaned out to chat to another driver, standing smoking next to his parked cab.

“There’s a new nightclub there,” her driver reported. “The Bank. Very popular with – you know, rich people. Just up the street. There’s been a murder in there tonight. Maybe a terrorist attack – nobody knows. Everyone’s had to leave the club. The police are closing the road.”

The silver car was gone. Ara slammed her hand on the seat with frustration.

Four slender figures in black stalked by, and the back of Ara’s neck prickled: she knew instinctively that they were Venators. Her fingers twitched, longing for her own blades. She desperately wanted to leap out of the taxi and follow those long black shadows into the club.

“So, where now?” her driver asked.

“Mariatorget,” Ara said, her heart heavy. She still wanted to leap out of the car: all her instincts were screaming at her to get back to that club and work alongside the local Venators. But she was no use to them without weapons and without authorization. Something bad was going on here, even if it wasn’t really Finn Chase in the silver car, even if Ara had just been hallucinating that particular sighting. Here in a club on this street, someone was dead, and Venators were piling in to investigate.

The taxi made a U-turn, like practically every other car in the street, and snaked down one side street after another. At an intersection, waiting at an interminable light, Ara watched a sleek black Audi drive past.

In the back seat of the Audi sat Jack Force and Schuyler Van Alen.

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