Entity 01 - Sleeping With the Entity by Cat Devon

Author:Cat Devon [Devon, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Paranormal
ISBN: 9780312591465
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-06-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Daniella leapt from her chair and frantically looked around her apartment. Vampires. She was surrounded by vampires who had lulled her into a false sense of security and may have killed her mother. How stupid was she to let down her guard?

Where was a silver crucifix when you needed one? Wait. She had a sterling-silver tea strainer in the kitchen that she’d gotten at an antiques shop on a trip to London. Maybe that would do?

The problem was, she had to get past three vamps to get to the kitchen. And they moved faster than she could. Much faster. She couldn’t believe how fast Nick had raced to save her from getting mowed down by that Hummer.

“Calm down,” Nick said. Sure, now he used his reassuring voice. “We had nothing to do with your mother’s death.”

“Right.” She stood swaying just a bit from fear and adrenaline. “Like you’d admit it if you did.”

“She has a point,” Bruce said.

Nick glared at him. “Not helping.”

“I never saw you around the neighborhood twelve years ago,” she said to Nick. “Why is that?”

“Because I didn’t live here then. I was in Boston.”

“And I was in Florida,” Bruce said.

She focused her attention on Pat. “You were here then.”

Pat nodded. “True.”

“Then it was you.” She pointed an accusing finger at him, hoping he didn’t notice the slight tremble. “What did you do to her?”

“Nothing.”

Daniella needed to protect herself. Who knew what these vampires might do? What about a wooden stick? Or a stake? How big did a stick have to be to earn the description of a stake? She had a wooden yardstick in the closet. Would that work?

“Calm down,” Nick repeated.

“Do not try to compel me,” she growled.

“I already told you that you can’t be compelled,” Nick reminded her. “None of us can compel you.”

“Good thing, too,” she said.

“Although being able to compel you would make life more convenient for us,” Bruce said. “Not that the world is all about us,” he hurriedly added, given her acidic glare at him.

“You’re freaking out for no reason,” Nick told her.

“Right,” she scoffed. “Discovering your neighbors are vampires is no big deal.”

“How do we convince you that vampires had nothing to do with your mother’s death?” Pat said.

“A lie detector test,” she said.

“We don’t exactly have a normal pulse,” Pat said.

“Of course you don’t,” she said. “You drink blood. Blood that you steal from my family’s funeral home.”

“We don’t steal it. We pay good money for it,” Bruce said before clapping his hand to his mouth. “That wasn’t a secret, was it?”

“No.” Pat gave his partner a smile.

“So how can I be sure a vampire is telling the truth?” Daniella demanded.

“By trusting us,” Nick said.

“Like that’s going to happen. I could have you swear on a Bible or something.” She paused, unsure of the protocol. Weren’t religious objects a problem for vampires? “Okay, maybe not a good choice.”

“You want us to swear on a copy of Twilight?” Nick mocked her.

“I want to pretend none of this ever happened,” she said.

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