Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker

Author:N.R. Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, vampire, gay

CHAPTER TEN

Leaping into a dark and cold alley was nothing new to vampires, but Kole wasn’t too familiar. He hated leaping, and Cronin deduced the effect on the older man’s body was worse. Alec kept him close and pulsed a wave of pain relief through him.

“You okay?” Alec asked him.

“Yeah, yeah,” Kole said, trying to downplay it. “Though I’d take a ten hour plane trip over leaping any day.” He looked up at the stone walls at their sides. “Are we really in Paris?”

Cronin looked up and down the deserted street. There were cars parked and sounds of the city, but no one was in view. “This is Rue Massillon,” he said with perfect French inflections. “If you look to your left,” he nodded up the dark street, and at the end was a well-lit huge stone building. “That is Notre Dame.”

Kole pulled his coat collar up around his ears. He huffed. “Well, then I guess leaping isn’t all bad.”

Jacques laughed quietly. “Paris is my old stomping ground. Though I like New York as well.” His French accent seemed stronger here. “Come, Kole. I will show you some sights.”

They walked down the street to where the Notre Dame Cathedral hulked over them in all its Gothic architectural glory. The stone building was dark and wet, adding to the eeriness as they walked up Rue de Cloître Notre Dame, rounding the corner to the front of the building. The five of them stood back, looking up at the towers, taking in the magnificent sight before them.

“The gargoyles,” Kennard said softly. “Look at them.”

“Yeah,” Eiji agreed. “They look very familiar.”

“Look at the stained glass window,” Alec said. “In the third segment.”

Cronin recognized them immediately. They were the same devilish creatures depicted in the stained glass windows in London. Black winged creatures, somewhat resembling a dragon-type wolf being speared by a knight. They were the same creatures that now stood as stone statues on the very walls they were looking at. “Zoan.”

“You can see that?” Kole whispered. “I mean, seriously? I can barely make out the window. I can see the window is round.”

Eiji snorted. “Kole, you are so much like Alec.”

Alec smiled, then nodded toward the tower, to where the infamous gargoyles were perched. “I think we should check out the crypt first. That is why we’re here, but I also want to go up there afterwards. Something’s telling me to get a closer look at the gargoyles.” Then he looked around and saw just how visible they all were, even at three in the morning, so leaping directly wasn’t an option. “There are too many eyes. Let’s go back to the alley.”

Alec stopped in a small alcove, Cronin presumed, when he was sure they were out of view from any humans. “Ready?” And the next minute the six of them were four stories below the streets of Paris, even under the belly of Notre Dame.

* * * *

The space they were in was completely black, and Alec felt the immediate fear run through his father of being buried alive.

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