Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #18 - Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton [Hamilton, Laurell K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Contemporary, Occult, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Fiction - Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Occult fiction, Vampires, Blake, Anita (Fictitious character), Fantasy - Contemporary
ISBN: 9780425235676
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2010-08-15T20:18:19+00:00

THE FIRST SENSATION I had was of bare dirt under my hands. The ground was cool against the backs of my thighs through the hose. I could feel walls around me, that enclosed feeling, but there was a thread of wind as if there were a window open somewhere. The wind smelled of trees and grass. The dirt smelled fresh and cool. A few night insects called, sluggish in the unusually cool summer temperatures. I drew in a bigger breath, and smelled soap and af tershave, and under that the nose-tickling scent of lion. That made me open my eyes to the sloping roof of a shed. The window above me was partially broken, and there were plenty of gaps between the boards on the walls, so the wind eased through at will. I heard the wind in tall trees high above us. It was blowing harder higher up. I’d expected whatever werelion was guarding me to say something, but I had to turn my head slowly to find Nicky sitting beside me in the dark. He had his knees drawn up to his chest, hugging them, his cheek resting on them so his good eye could see me. The moon was bright enough through the broken windows to let me see him clearly. The brightness of it reminded me that it was only two days until full moon. That might have been one reason they had so much trouble with my beast. The closer to full moon, the harder it was to control your beast.

Nicky gave a small smile. “Good, you’re not dead.”

“Was I supposed to be?” I asked.

“When Silas hit you and you dropped like that”—he shrugged—“it was a thought.”

“I didn’t even have time to worry about it. He was so fast.”

“You managed to move a little out of the way or he’d have snapped your neck.”

I started to try to get up, but he touched my arm. “Stay down a little longer. Once you get up, then you have to raise the dead.”

“Did you win the fight with Jacob?”

“You nearly dying sort of stopped it.” He grinned, a sudden whiteness in the dark. “And we had to help patch up Silas. You opened him up from”—he sat up so he could use his own body to demonstrate—“here at just under the ribs, across the stomach, to the upper intestine. I got to see his intestines on the outside. That is one sharp blade.”

I heard footsteps rustling the leaves, and the crooked door opened to show a dark shadow that turned out to be Jacob. “It wasn’t just the blade, Nick. She knows how to use a knife.” Apparently he’d heard us, too. He walked across the dirt floor and stood on the other side of me, looming over us both. I didn’t like that, so I tried to sit up.

“Slowly,” Nicky said, “you’ve been mostly dead all night.”

I stopped in midmotion. “Did you just quote Princess Bride?”

“I may not be able to quote books, but movies, those I can do.

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