A Bloody London Tale (Book 2): The Epidemic by Prichard Cornelius

Author:Prichard, Cornelius [Prichard, Cornelius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampire
Published: 2016-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Gareth

Jack wasn’t pleased. I could feel the anger coming off him in waves, which was interesting. “You were supposed to ring me when you found Tom.” He shook his head. “Three hours I’ve been waiting for that phone call.”

“That’s because we don’t need you to treat us like idiots.” Tom didn’t seem at all bothered by Jack’s anger. “I understand you’re an older vampire and you’re doing what you can to look out for us, but I don’t want to be trapped in this house all the time. We need our freedom, as much as possible, because our lives have changed in ways we could never have imagined. Gareth and I were talking about that while we were out.”

“Why did you come back?”

“Both of us were beginning to feel hungry and we didn’t want to do anything stupid.”

Slowly the anger faded away. “At least you were sensible enough to do that.” He brushed a hand through his hair. “I can understand why you want your freedom, but the thing we have to be most careful of at the moment is hunters. There have been hunter for as long as there have been vampires and that’s something we do need to talk about. A hunter, if he comes across you, is most likely to attack first and ask questions later. He’s not going to care if you’re a vampire trying to live alongside humans or if you’re a vampire who views humans as nothing more than a food source. To them the best vampire is a dead vampire. Fortunately there are a few hunters out there who do what they can to look out for us, but they are few and far between.”

Emma walked into the hallway, carrying two bags of blood. “As far as a hunter is concerned all vampires are evil, whether you are or not, and it’s going to be the hunters on the telly. They’re the ones waxing lyrical about how horrible vampires are, how we’d be better off dead, how this epidemic is obviously something we all planned…” She shook her head. “Yeah, because I planned for this to happen to me.”

Tom looked at me and I looked at Tom. “In that case we need to get some vampires on, don’t we?” He grinned as he walked over to the phone. “What’s the number of that newsroom?”

For a moment everyone was silent and then Emma rattled off the number. “Is this a good idea?” I looked between Jack and Emma as Tom told whoever it was that answered he was one of the newly created vampires. “Surely this is going to make things worse?”

“It can’t. People view as all as evil predators. All Tom will do is give them a voice.” Jack sighed. “I’m not sure he should be doing it, but in the end talking to the people who believe we are all evil might well be the best thing he can do.”

“Ah, now, this is interesting. According to my producer we have a vampire on the phone.

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