Family Secrets (Davenport Manor Book 1) by Melissa Zaroski

Author:Melissa Zaroski [Zaroski, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: ghost, family secrets, hollywood, vampire, davenport manor
Publisher: MALM Publications
Published: 2013-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Todd and Emma decided to take a walk along the lakefront after they left Navy Pier. This time of year you didn’t find too many people near the beach this late at night, so it was the perfect alone time for them. It was something she rarely got since other vampires with sonic hearing lived in the Manor with her.

They strolled arm-in-arm like they did the first time they spent time together touring the outer property of the Manor. They spoke of their childhoods; his growing up in London as an only child and she basically spoke of her experience during Daniel’s childhood. She told him of Daniel’s difficulty dealing with their parents’ death and that he nearly quit showbiz when he began to spiral into a depression. But, as it turned out, the best anti-depressant for him was getting back to work and being surrounded by his friends from the Ticking Through Time films.

A short way in the distance was a group of six young men in their early twenties walking towards them, clearly drunk and obnoxious. Todd was speaking, but she had stopped listening to him so she could eavesdrop on what they were saying. She snapped to attention when she over-heard one talk about jumping and robbing them.

“Let’s turn around and head back, I don’t like the looks of these guys coming towards us and there’s no one else around,” she interrupted him.

They casually turned around and began to walk the other way when she heard the men trying to quietly run up behind them. Her natural instinct was to turn around and defend herself, but she knew that if she did that Todd would know that she certainly wasn’t human. She was just going to have to let things happen as they may and try to defend herself and Todd the best as humanly possible. This was not a good situation and for the first time in nearly two-hundred years, she was scared. She heard the men approaching fast and they both turned around to look behind them.

The leader, who was shorter than Todd, but stocky, shoved him to the ground while another guy grabbed Emma and positioned himself behind her. He used the strength of his arms wrapped around her to hold hers down, thinking she was defenseless. The third man ripped her purse from her grasp and laughed. Todd managed to get back up and fight his attacker, but he was outnumbered as the others joined in. One threw a punch so hard it knock him back down onto the ground and the others began to kick him in the stomach, back, and head. Emma struggled like a lady against the man holding her, knowing she could rip him to shreds within a blink of an eye.

One of Todd’s attackers grabbed his wallet out of his pocket as the others continued to kick and pound him. His screams of pain were getting weaker and Emma could hear the gurgling inside him—he was bleeding internally.

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