Brian Helsing: The World's Unlikeliest Vampire Hunter Box Set 1 - Missions 1-3 by Gareth K Pengelly

Author:Gareth K Pengelly [Pengelly, Gareth K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten: Threeway To Hell

It was some time later, both in terms of time and alcohol consumed, that they’d found themselves in the quieter back room of the club, sat at a table, a crowd of empty glasses before them, as they both swayed and slurred their words, chatting away about everything and nothing. The girl, Scylla, her name he’d since learned, reached over and filled their glasses once more from the half-drained bottle before them. How she’d managed to talk the bottle from the barman’s care where he’d failed, Brian didn’t have a clue. Perhaps it was supernatural glamour, the same hypnotic charisma that many such creatures seemed to possess.

Or perhaps it was simply boobs and a pretty smile.

“You’re a funny man, Brian Trelawney,” she laughed, clinking her glass against his for the umpteenth time.

“Funny to look at, sure,” he replied, completely unable to take a compliment.

Like most skills, taking a compliment required practice to master and few and far between had been the compliments hurled Brian’s way over the course of his life.

“No,” she retorted, eyes twinkling. “I mean it, there’s something about you. You’re different.”

Yes, he thought. Very. As are you. Though quite what she was he couldn’t put his finger on as of yet. All signs when she’d been dancing had pointed towards Water Nymph. But now, sat before him, the pair steadily descending into the murky depths of inebriation as they conversed, he’d begun to hope that perhaps he’d been wrong in his earlier appraisal. For this girl, like so few, seemed to be friendly, willing to chat with him, flirt with him even. She seemed almost genuine. Perhaps it was merely glamour he’d been feeling every time he looked into her wide, dark, glistening eyes, feeling the thrill of attraction surge through every drunken fibre of his being. But then, wasn’t he immune to such things, what with the combination of the ring and his own mis-wired mind? The thought that swiftly followed chilled him to the bone; what if he was truly attracted to her? And yet at the same time, what if she really did turn out to be a Water Nymph? Shit. Well, that would make his job all the more difficult. As he regarded her beautiful face, lithe body, the easy smile and seemingly boundless enthusiasm, he found it hard to imagine running the flaming sword at his back through her stomach.

“So what’s your story then, Brian? What do you do for a living that affords you enough spare cash to pander to my alcoholism?” she asked.

“A bit of this, a bit of that,” he stalled, trying to think of an answer that wouldn’t result in her diving over the table and ripping his head off, thereby ruining what had so far turned out to be quite the surprisingly pleasant evening. “Used car sales, mainly,” he told her. “And erm, competitive surfing, too.”

Her eyes widened.

“Surfing?”

“Aye,” he lied. “I love the sea. Can’t get enough of it.”

“Well, aren’t you a man after my own heart?” she giggled.

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