Corrupting Alicia by Tsoukalas Evan

Author:Tsoukalas, Evan [Tsoukalas, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Vampires
Published: 2018-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

I next found myself in Niagara Falls, the primal, powerful sound of the water oddly soothing. I stood at the railing overlooking Horseshoe Falls, the cold, penetrating mist from the falls coating my skin and helping to scatter the troubled thoughts that were stuck on Octavian’s words like a song you hear and just can’t get out of your mind.

... you must realize that, eventually, you will be forced to choose. With Gisele, there can be no other way.

That choice was coming, and for a reason I couldn’t explain, I was certain that my precognition had been a warning of that choice and whatever would follow in the aftermath. Either choice brought its own serving of danger; the trick was to choose the lesser danger. Actually, the trick was to make the right decision, regardless of the consequences, and find the strength and courage to face them.

That was certainly no small feat, and given my track record of late, my chances for success weren’t too good. Okay, okay, I had a better chance of winning the Powerball without buying a ticket, but I have always thought that we are truly defined by how we respond to situations where there seems to be no satisfactory course of action, when all the mystical forces of this world are aligned against us, and every choice we might make starts at bad and keeps getting progressively worse.

I guess a defining moment was preparing for a visit, and I was hoping it would be more like a long-lost friend than the in-laws.

I tossed thoughts around in my head for hours, until my coat was drenched and the mist began to soak through to my clothes. I wiped the sheen of moisture from my face and head, my cold hand lukewarm against my skin after being sheltered in my pocket.

Many things were still unresolved; one thing, however, was very resolved: it didn’t matter why Gisele had gone to Jeffrey. I would be watching over Alicia during the night, and she would stay with me in the vault until her security team was in place. Taking her out of the equation left me as the sole target, and I was more difficult to hit than the exhaust port that killed the Death Star.

Even if Jeffrey were willing, which was about as likely as the pilot light going out in Hell, he couldn’t do that much damage. My fortune was so vast and diversified that it would take him and a team of lawyers and accountants months to effectively squander it. By mutual agreement from the beginning, there was no way for him to tie three-quarters of my aliases to one another, and those he could tie didn’t matter. Jason Connally was legally dead, and there was no evidence left to resurrect him; Nekros had made sure of that.

Gisele knew all this, and if that wasn’t enough of a deterrent - hell hath no fury and all that - messing with Jeffrey would earn her several very powerful enemies for her trouble, and that wasn’t even counting me.

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