Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang by Katie MacAlister

Author:Katie MacAlister
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-09-05T19:48:31+00:00

Chapter 9

“Boy, am I glad you’re . . . here. . . .” The sentence trailed off as I saw who it was knocking at my door. “Oh, hello. When I called the dial-a-reaper number, I hadn’t expected you two would be the ones to make the pickup.”

“The director thought it would be best if we limited exposure of Brotherhood members to one who so clearly does not embrace the true glory of the light,” Janice Mycowski said primly as she pushed past me into the hotel room. “You have Kristjana and Mattias here?”

“Yes.” I closed the door behind Rick, trying to summon up a welcoming smile.

“You look well,” Rick said politely. “Iceland must agree with you.”

“Thank you. No!”

Rick looked startled for a moment until he realized I wasn’t shouting at him.

Mattias, who had been forbidden to leave his chair, grabbed the seat and chair-hopped his way toward me. “Pia!” he called as I reentered the living room of our hotel suite.

“I told you to stay!” I said, pointing back at the corner where he’d been.

His face shifted into a pout. “But Kristoff is not here. You said I had to stay out of his way, but he is gone. Smooches!”

Rick and Janice looked at Mattias with obvious surprise, the former turning a bemused glance upon me.

“Er . . . he’s a bit . . . affectionate,” I said, blushing a little as I hissed to Mattias, “I told you there will be no kissing!”

“Piiiia,” he said, drawing out my name in a depressed sigh.

“You’ve light-bound him!” Janice declared after giving him a good long look. She turned her fierce gaze upon me. “You dare!”

“You bet your butt I dare,” I said, squaring my shoulders and looking like I would be prone to light-binding anyone who annoyed me.

She took a step back.

“It’s keeping him happy and me sane, so I don’t want to hear one word about that. Kristjana is through the bedroom to your left.” I gestured toward the appropriate door.

She marched to it with a glare that probably could have cracked cement. “I shall be sure to tell the director just how you treated our members!”

“Oh, I’m sure Frederic has a much worse image of me than as someone who dazzles a couple of troublesome reapers,” I said, following her into the room. I was braced for a scream of outrage, which was forthcoming immediately.

“What have you done to her?” Janice yelled. I stood in the doorway and smiled somewhat weakly as Janice fussed around the prone woman lying on the bed. “Goddess above! You’ve killed her!”

“No, no, she’s not dead. She’s just sedated. She was a wee bit upset when we got her out of the room she was being kept in, and the doctor thought it would be best if she had a little downtime to recover. I’m not quite sure why, but she was resistant to the light-binding, so we gave up trying to make her happy and just let her go to sleep instead.”

“Downtime!”

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