Eternal Hunger by Cameron Dean

Author:Cameron Dean
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Vampires, Romance: Modern, Horror, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Erotic Fiction, Gothic, Horror - General, Romance - Contemporary, Horror fiction, General, Romance - Gothic, Las Vegas (Nev.), Fiction - Romance
ISBN: 9780345492555
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2009-04-23T23:08:41+00:00

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Nine

The second Ash pulled up at the curb outside the Sher, I was out of the car. We had agreed he would park and wait for me downstairs. I had no idea how long I would be. I had no idea what was going on. My tension and fears had only increased on the drive into town. Ash and I hadn’t spoken much, but he had held my hand, silently offering support.

“Don’t forget…” Ash began as he brought the car to a halt. But I already had the car door open, one foot planted firmly on the sidewalk. I levered myself out of the car, dashed the few steps to the Sher. With a blast of cold air, the automatic doors slid open as I approached. I barreled through the doorway then stopped as the wave of human experience crashed into me, sharp and vicious as a sucker punch.

Don’t forget to take a moment to prepare yourself, Candace, I thought, mentally finishing the sentence I hadn’t let Ash complete. Wrapped in my fears for Bibi, I had not taken time to remember to center myself, to inhabit the place I had discovered before, the one I now secretly referred to as the “undead zone.” The place where my vampire powers would buffer me from human experience rather than making me a conduit for them.

I reached inward, searching for the place that would steady me, felt a sudden hand on my elbow, and jumped a good half mile. The fact that I realized who it was even as I overreacted didn’t help any.

“About that nickname I gave you,” Al Manelli said, dropping my elbow as I spun around.

“I’m changing it,” I snapped. “As of this moment, it’s Nerves of Jell-O. How’s Bibi? Have you seen her? What the hell is going on?”

“I don’t know,” Al said, not specifying whether he was answering my first question or my last one. He took my elbow once again and began to pilot me through the crowd, toward the private elevator that would take us to Randolph Glass’s penthouse. “All I know is that there’s been an attack on Randolph.”

I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, one that even the undead zone couldn’t protect me from.

“What kind of attack?”

Al ran his key card down the slot to activate the elevator. The security system beeped, just once, and the elevator doors slid open. In tandem, Al and I stepped inside, turning to face them as they whispered closed.

Al ran a hand across his face, and I realized in that moment just how rattled he was. “I’m not altogether sure,” Al admitted as the elevator began to rise. “All I know is that it looks pretty bad, and that it happened in the penthouse. The paramedics are prepping him for transport now.”

“Okay, wait a minute,” I said. “He was attacked in the penthouse?”

No wonder Al is so shocked. Randolph’s penthouse has security that would make the president green with envy. Personally, I would have given better odds on a successful break-in at FortKnox.

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