After Dark: Night Eternal, #2 by Melody Taylor

Author:Melody Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melody Taylor
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Seven

Oh, goody. More of this. I kept my gaze focused on the wall in front of me. Hunter green.

“No,” I said. “That vampire wanted to kill some mortals who have proven themselves to be dangerous. He wouldn’t ask me to do it.”

Pause. A thick pause, full of confusion and fear and not knowing if everything was going to be okay.

“Ian, why are you defending him?”

I slammed one hand flat onto the floor. The sound of the blow echoed through the room, making both Delana and Amanda jump. “Because he’s right,” I snapped, still not turning to look at either of them. I slammed my hand down again, less hard this time. “Goddammit, he’s right. They’re dangerous, and they’re hurting Monique, and he’s right about them using this trick on me again if I give in to it now, and they should all be killed, every one of them, put down like rabid dogs. But I don’t have the guts to do it.” I covered my face with my hand again, breathing hard, working not to let my eyes well up. Monique had to be so scared.

“Killing people is not an answer,” Delana said, quietly but firmly.

I wanted to contradict her. I wanted to ask her what the answer was, then, if she was so familiar with it. I wanted to hear her fumbling ideas so that I could lay any misconceptions she had to rest. I kept my mouth shut.

“Ian,” Amanda said. “We could get to the meeting place early. Knock them out, tie them up, get them out of the way, get Monique, and then get out of here. Then you wouldn’t be killing them or giving in to their demands.”

I considered it. I really, really did. We had superior hearing and senses of smell. We could track them easily, get the jump on them, take them out of the game one at a time. Then I shook my head. “No.”

Amanda’s frown jabbed at me from across the room. “Why not?”

“Think about it for a second,” I said. “These guys aren’t stupid. If you wanted to ransom someone, how would you do the money-trade?”

“If I didn’t know I was up against supernatural motherfuckers who could kick my ass into next year without even breaking a sweat?”

I waved a hand in the air. “Assume you’re up against people. You’re a person, they’re people. How would you do the drop?”

The room went quiet while Amanda thought.

“First of all, I wouldn’t let them know how many people I had working with me,” Amanda started.

“They’ve done that.”

She shifted uneasily on the bed, making the springs creak faintly. “Well, really, what I would do, is first of all, lie, and second of all, assume the people I’m trying to make a deal with would be lying. I would assume they would bring in police no matter what, and I wouldn’t want to get caught up in any of that. I’d tell them to drop off what I want, then I’d send a third party

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