Clan Novel Malkavian: Book 9 of The Clan Novel Saga by Justin Achilli

Author:Justin Achilli [Achilli, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, vampires
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2019-03-19T06:00:00+00:00

Monday, 30 August 1999, 9:11 PM

CSX freight yard

Atlanta, Georgia

Victoria bristled with nervous energy. The nights were so short these days. And it was difficult to tell time in a vault.

Yes, she’d literally been inside a vault: Harold’s impressive collection of antique and rare coins lined row upon row of the bunker room, and Victoria had decided it was the only place she would feel safe. Besides, Harold was something of a survivalist, and the vault could double as a sort of bomb shelter. It was probably the reason he’d built it in the first place.

So, after coaxing Harold through a tedious session of sexual fulfillment for him—and she knew it was indeed the height of pleasure and satisfaction for him despite his limp member, which endorsed her mission of vengeance—she’d explained that she would only feel loved, truly loved by him if he found her valuable enough to store in his vault. Now that idea had charged him right up, but it was the first course of the evening that had determined whether her mission was first to be vengeance before attending to the task the council of elders in Baltimore had given her.

The inside door of the vault was fitted with a coded opener, and while a maid cleaned the floor of the distasteful result of a human male’s lust, Harold showed off his other collection as well: a couple of cabinets’ worth of illegal weaponry and assorted other items that seemed more suited to guerilla warfare than life in a big Southern city. Victoria had taunted him then, claiming that was why he’d gotten off this time—his money, his guns and his woman all in one room!

But then she made him show her how to use the guns. They went to his basement firing range, and Victoria discovered that the basics of operating the weapons required no great skill. Her physical adeptness, honed over years of existence, made her nearly as good a shot as Harold. This despite the many problems Harold tried to adjust in her stance and grip.

They had returned to the vault then, and Harold demonstrated the code and made a great show of locking away his most prized possessions. He showed her the fold-down bed that he had not bothered with earlier and pointed out a small refrigerator that was stocked with a number of gourmet items. There were dry goods as well, but he didn’t hint that Victoria would have any interest in those.

While Victoria had dozed earlier, waiting for Harold to recover from one extended bout of entertainment, she’d had the most vivid and uncharacteristic dream. Victoria felt rather unnerved by the experience. It was why she’d decided she must tuck herself away within this room.

In the dream, a white canary with coins for eyes had flown into a jeweled cage because a huge black cat menaced and threatened to devour it. So even though the canary moments before had gained its freedom from that very cage, it returned. Harold’s snoring had woken her then.

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