[Sunwalker Saga 04] - Kissed by Moonlight (2013) by Shéa MacLeod

Author:Shéa MacLeod
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Sunwalker Press
Published: 2014-07-24T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

"Vampires have souls now, thanks to Alister? You've got to be kidding me." I noticed Kabita didn't say "my father" as she paced the confines of her office. Angry energy rolled off her in waves, and I winced as my powers reacted to it. They liked anger. It made them stronger.

I sighed as I sank into the buttery-soft visitor's chair, ignoring the pull inside me. "I wish I was."

"And what? He's kidnapping old people and turning them into vamps?"

"Jack and I don't think so. As far as we can tell, he's transferring the souls of the dying elderly into the bodies of existing vampires." At least that's what we'd put together based on what Tommy had told me of the technology, and our own observations. It really was the only thing that made sense. Even turning vampire wouldn't make an elderly person young again.

Kabita sat on the edge of her desk, jiggling one black jean-clad leg. Her cinnamon skin looked a little paler than usual. "That's sick. Why on earth would they do that?"

"We know a vampire can't be made without losing its soul, and it seems a soul can't be captured until the moment it leaves the body. Our best guess is that capturing dying souls and inserting them into existing vamps is the only way to imbue a vampire with a soul." It sounded totally insane even to me.

Kabita started pacing again, her black biker boots thumping slightly on the thick beige carpet. She'd been on a demon hunt and hadn't bothered to change. "And again I ask, why?"

"We assume to make the vampires easier to control. Beyond that? No idea." I shook my head. "We're working on it."

"Fantastic," Kabita snarled. She glared at the wastebasket next to her desk like she wanted to do it bodily harm. She didn't. She had far more restraint than I did. Points to Kabita. "What else can go wrong?"

Besides me dreaming of the Fairy Queen torturing Jade, Inigo being in a weird dragon coma, Brent Darroch escaping from an inescapable prison, and Cordelia giving me cryptic messages from beyond? "Uh, have I mentioned someone has a hit out on me?"

Kabita smacked her forehead. "For goddess's sake, Morgan." Her tone had a very "why me" quality to it. Couldn't say I blamed her.

"Sorry. Just thought I could figure it out on my own. No sense worrying anybody else." I'd yet to make any headway in that department; I'd been a little busy with other things.

She kicked out her desk chair and threw herself into it, which was about as close to a temper tantrum as Kabita ever came. "You seriously couldn't have mentioned this earlier? Like, oh, say, before you got nearly ripped to shreds by some vampire chick who fancied herself a bounty hunter?"

I opened my mouth, but I didn't have time to get anything out before Kabita barreled on. "Why is it that you insist on going off half-cocked, marching into danger with your eyes closed?"

"Hey, that's not true." Well, not entirely.

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