Cosmopolitan by Shayne Silvers & Cameron O'Connell

Author:Shayne Silvers & Cameron O'Connell [Silvers, Shayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Argento Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-06-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

I’d first met Magnus outside the House of Blues in Boston almost a month ago. He’d surprised the shit out of me in an alleyway after I’d used a Super Soaker full of holy water to douse a naughty bunch of vampires who’d needed to be punished. In the end, they’d been staked to walls like butterflies on display.

That last bit wasn’t me, I swear.

Magnus had taken an immediate interest in me—you know, my likes and my dislikes, my hobbies, my blood type—and had gone so far as to chase me down the alley. A few days later, the pushy bastard had done me a solid by taking out the wizard who’d kidnapped my aunt, the same wizard who’d decorated the walls with vampire corpses. I hadn’t heard from Magnus since, although I’d heard rumors about what he’d done to the wizard.

Let’s just say karma is a bitch.

In hindsight, I wasn’t that surprised to find out he was the vamp in charge; I’d known Magnus was a Master vampire who owned a mansion in New York State, and there probably weren’t too many Master vampires out there. I simply hadn’t connected the dots until now.

Sometimes I’m a little slow, but I always get there in the end.

“Miss MacKenna,” Magnus said, rising to his full height, towering above me by about six inches—and I was the tallest of us there. “I never would have expected to see you here. And in such,” Magnus paused to eye Alucard up and down before dismissing him in an instant, “interesting company.”

If Alucard was rankled by the insult, he didn’t show it. If anything, he seemed to shrink in on himself, sidestepping into the shadows to let us continue our conversation uninterrupted. I considered dragging him back, but it didn’t seem worth the effort. If he wanted to chicken out in front of the big, bad Master vampire, he could.

Wuss.

“I didn’t realize ye were the one pullin’ the strings around here,” I replied. “It’s an interestin’ place.” I emphasized the word exactly as Magnus had when smack-talking Alucard.

Othello’s head weaved slowly back and forth between the two of us, trying to figure out how we knew one another. Her eyes were glazed over, which made no sense; the bottle of champagne had barely been touched since our first pour, and she would have known better than to look in Magnus’ eyes, whether she knew he was a vampire or not. “Are ye alright?” I asked her.

“Quinn?” Othello asked, staring two feet to my right.

“Miss Othello here was just telling me all about your missing friend. Terry, was it? It seems she’s under the impression that one of my people is responsible.”

“What did ye do to her?” I growled. I knew Othello would never willingly share that sort of information.

“Nothing permanent, I assure you. Ordinarily, I’d have my own means of interrogating her, but it seems she has experience with my kind. Fortunately, you humans have a few tricks of your own. The wonders of pharmaceuticals.

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