A Guide to Vampire Hunting_...and other failures by Janus Alexander

Author:Janus Alexander [Alexander, Janus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

The night before her attack Amelia spent watching Kristoff. She sat across from his building on a roof, kicking the heels of her combat boots with her sword across her lap, sharpening it absently with a stone. Amelia wondered why he hadn’t seen her in all the time she’d stalked him. But she suspected there was a good chance he had known all along and just let her follow him around. He was probably figuring she was just a love sick puppy. Amelia smirked, Kristoff’s protective instincts had led him to underestimate her. He’d never know about her plans and subterfuge until after she’d taken out Gianni.

That night, when Kristoff went out to the clubs, Amelia left him early and went back to her apartment and trained. She would win this one and be that much closer to her sister’s revenge.

Amelia woke to her alarm at sunset and wrapped her hands and wrists with boxing tape, it wasn’t a set of leather vambraces, but it was better than nothing. She pulled on a pair of black skinny jeans and one of her black tank tops. But then she changed her mind.

Reaching underneath her pillow, she pulled out Kristoff’s shirt and held it to her nose, it still - just barley - smelt of him, she’d wear this for good luck. Next she strapped her sister’s hunting dagger to her thigh and the sword to her back. Finally, she covered it all up with her motorcycle jacket. She needed to be on the rooftop above Gianni’s club’s back door before the club opened.

The metro was teeming, everyone grouchy and tired from midweek blues. Amelia stood in the back of the car, leaning against the door to watch them. Could she have been one of them at one time? At first she’d thought so. Now she wasn’t as sure. No, she’d never be truly gifted at hunting, but she would train well enough to make it through. She had the drive to succeed - the hunger to push herself as hard as she could make her body go, and the need to take care of those unaware of the world parallel to them.

Amelia looked about at the faces around her, they would never know about the death lurking and stalking them at the borders of their eyesight. But she knew, and in knowing it became her responsibility - no matter how bad at it - to do something. Stuffing her hands into her pockets, Amelia broke away from her contemplative stare and waited for her stop. But when it came, she made sure to look at the faces surrounding her one more time.

She wasn’t just fighting for Mona, she fought for those living falsely secure lives around her so they would not become victims as well.

By the time Amelia reached her perch over the alley, Gianni’s thugs were starting to open up the club. She’d have several hours to wait before the first fight would start - and then longer until the fight would pause.

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