DX by Carolyn Jewel

Author:Carolyn Jewel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carolyn Jewel
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

Tuan Ng had never been a fang to embrace the +1 look. No Armani or Versace for him. He wore his wealth in more subtle ways, like the diamond stud in his ear, or the cars he drove. His hair was rough cut and short enough that it spiked across the top of his head. He liked his enforcers to wear leather, and he’d been known to go out for the night wearing leather himself. Right now, however, he was wearing baggy tan shorts that hit mid-thigh, a pink-and-grey bowling shirt and a pair of leather flip-flops. He was tall for a Vietnamese, five-ten, maybe five-eleven and had broad shoulders and smoldering black eyes. She’d always liked the casual beach look on him.

“What are you doing here, Tuan?” she said to him from the basement floor. Tuan had lifted the doors and streetlight and moonlight poured into the basement. She gripped the metal railing of the ladder because otherwise she’d have keeled over from the disorientation of having a second person in her body. This possession stuff was wild. Jaden was inside her, experiencing her consciousness, her emotions and her sensations and his own, too. She felt the malevolence of his energy vibrate through her.

“Hell. Come up here. We need to talk.”

There was a moment of confusion while Jaden adjusted to the different physics of her body, then she climbed the stairs on wobbly legs. At the top, Tuan leaned a shoulder against the wall and eyed her, pausing at her brassiere-clad torso. She liked it better when Jaden ogled her.

“You look good.” Tuan spoke with that Southeast Asian slur around certain sounds that she really, really liked. Then he smiled and reminded her of all the reasons she’d fallen for him in the first place. He was handsome, of course. He had a twisted sense of humor, and she’d believed for a long time he wasn’t hung up on his power.

“Thanks.”

“I’ve missed you.”

She crossed her arms over her chest. Jaden, she discovered, had a much different take on the world than she did, and it was bleeding into hers. She’d never assessed Tuan as a rival, but Jaden did. “What you are you doing here?”

“The same one-track mind as always, I see.” He grinned. “Fabienne told me you were in trouble.”

“Nah,” she said.

Tuan looked at the blasted-out street and tumbled down buildings. He pushed off the wall. “What I heard is some goon had you.”

“He’s not a goon, Tuan.” They’d been an un-item for well over a year. Except for one brief but disastrous backslide, she hadn’t seen him for months and she still felt an absurd descent into emotional baggage that ought to be long empty of impact.

“Your goon killed Stephano. And left you alone in the Lower. The Cazadores could get top dollar for you, Hell, don’t you know that? Where is he?”

Oops. There hadn’t been time for a cover story. “He left to get help. How about you, Tuan? Are you here to help or gloat?”

The vampire sighed.

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