Blood and Bullets by James R. Tuck

Author:James R. Tuck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Vampires
ISBN: 9780758271471
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

12

My brain would not turn off.

Inky blackness swirled on the edges of my consciousness. I was tired, exhausted actually, but I couldn’t shut my brain down long enough to go under. It had been a long night. A really long fucking night, and I had another one coming up at sunset. There were things I had to do before then, hours before, but sunset was when everything would go down.

I was in my room at Polecats. It was still the safest place to be. Freshly showered, I lay on my futon on the floor. It was comfortable and molded to my body. The low whirr of the fan sent a cool breeze of air over my naked skin. A sheet tangled across my groin, but that was all for modesty. Nothing else blocked the soft air from my body. My eyes were closed, but that did not matter since the room was pitch-black anyway. It was an interior room with no windows and a towel under the door. The Desert Eagle lay on the floor beside the mattress, loaded with one in the chamber. I really do sleep better with it there.

Rest. I needed to rest. I needed sleep because I had to rescue Larson’s family tonight. I still didn’t know for sure why he was even involved. It appeared he really was just bait. Bait and leverage if I wasn’t killed. He couldn’t rescue his family. He didn’t have the strength or the skill, but he wanted to. His anger when I told him we were not going from the brothel to the place in his head threw him into a fit. I could understand why.

I knew the feeling of helplessness when people you love are in danger and there is nothing you can do. I still remembered the sounds coming over the phone. I still remembered the sounds of my children crying and the wet sounds that ended … ENOUGH!

I had to derail that train NOW! I was too tired to think about my family. That was a road I could not go down. If I did, I would be worthless. I would be crippled. The tears on my face dried in the air from the fan and I pushed my mind away from those memories.

After our argument in the car as to why we were doing what we were doing, I had to have Father Mulcahy put Larson somewhere he could not leave. He had the directions in his head like a messenger pigeon, and if he got out, I knew he would head to Appollonia. I needed him to find her, so he was under lock and key. Kat was working on finding something about her. Gregorios was broken by Appollonia’s possession, so I did not get as much information from him as I should have. I had actually felt a little pity for him. He was a vampire and so I put him down, but I had done it partially as a mercy.

Appollonia was a truly scary bitch if she had me feeling any sympathy for a creature like Gregorios.

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