Blood Casino: Vampires & Vices No. 1 by Nina Walker

Author:Nina Walker [Walker, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950093199
Publisher: Addison & Gray Press
Published: 2021-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

I sleep through my alarm the next morning and not by a little, by a lot. When I eventually peel myself out of the bed and realize I’d turned it off this morning in my sleepy stupor, the time on the screen catches me by surprise. I’m three hours late for training. I’ve never been late before. I’m also used to catching rides with Felix, but he never bothered this morning, it seems. There’s no missed call or anything.

Cursing my mom and Adrian, and Felix for that matter, I speed through the quickest shower of my life. I need to get the cigarette smell from the casino out of my hair. I don’t want anyone guessing where I was last night. I finish up and hastily french braid my long wet hair back, slide into workout clothes, and run to the kitchen to grab a banana and fill up my water bottle.

Mom’s car keys sit on the counter. I guess she made it home after all. She should be at work by now.

“Mom.” I pop my head in her darkened room. “Are you okay?”

She mumbles something about calling in sick to work and rolls over, her little red head burrowing under a mountain of pillows. I don’t have time to lecture her about the stunt she pulled last night, and it wouldn’t matter anyway. Taking her car, I zip downtown to training and hope that I don’t get into too much trouble for showing up late.

Well, I try to zip over, but I get caught in terrible slow-moving traffic and by the time I’m actually pulling into the underground parking garage, I’m four hours late. Half the day is gone. I wish I’d applied some makeup because I can already tell I’m blushing from embarrassment and probably look like I lost as much sleep as I did. They’re going to think I’m hungover, and with my lip still healing, they may even think I ended up in a bar fight or something.

I do the fingerprint scan first and then number code my way into the facility, racing over to the gym area where I expect to find my teammates sparring. But it’s empty. Taking the stairs up to the classroom areas, I find a group of hunters gathered outside of Leslie’s office.

“What’s going on?” I ask.

One of the girls turns on me with a frown. “He’s gone.”

“What do you mean, gone?”

She shrugs. “He wasn’t here this morning so we started working out on our own. Finally someone got worried enough to break into his office. He wasn’t there. He’s not anywhere in the building. This has never happened before. Did you know he lives here? He has an apartment and everything. He’s very careful about when he leaves and where he goes..”

I did not know that. “Thanks,” I mutter to the girl and push my way through the crowd until I find Felix, Seth, and Kenton whispering in the corner.

“What’s going on? Tate’s missing?”

They go quiet and turn to me. “There she is,” Seth says.

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