Huntress for Hire, a Vampire Romantic Suspense by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear [Spear, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terry Spear

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Adonis turned down another dark road that Rachael recognized led to a warehouse district, her skin cold with anticipation, her heartbeat accelerating. She wished she could command it to beat more steadily, knowing Adonis could hear her anxiousness with his super enhanced hearing, just as she could if the blood wasn’t pulsing so hard in her ears.

“Before you hunt, you have to clear your mind of everything...anything that could distract you from your job.”

“Yes.” She knew this from her hunter training classes. The key was to be able to concentrate on only the menace before you, nothing else, allowing no other distractions.

“Emotions have to be buried.”

Emotions. Now that could be a problem. When faced with a dog that was ready to rip her throat out, she could handle it. But what if the vampire rogue smiled at her sweetly, no fangs extended, no threat involved? Then what? Would she react too late?

But Adonis was avoiding her question. “I know all this. What has any of this got to do with your being turned?”

Again, he paused before he spoke. She imagined the memory was painful. Did he worry she’d be thinking about it when she should be concentrating on killing rogue vampires?

“Not knowing will make it worse for me. I have a very vivid imagination, Adonis.”

He reached over and ran his hand over her fingers resting on the console. “My...sister had lost contact with her friend and came here looking for her. When we discovered her body, we investigated and soon learned Piaras was at the heart of the matter. He had murdered Pasha’s friend.”

“You sought revenge? You went to his estates and—”

He released a ponderous sigh. “I’ll tell you everything, Rachael.” He lifted her fingers to his lips and kissed them. “Everything, but now is not the time.”

With her free hand, she touched his shoulder. “I’m so sorry, Adonis. My uncle would have welcomed you into the family. I know he would have. We have one other that joined us from California. Some of my suitors and a couple of the women who married into my family came from other parts of Texas to ensure no one is too closely related. Had you only sought our help— ”

He nodded and yet she sensed there was more to the story than he was willing to let on. He and his family must have stormed the estates and been caught off-guard...a rare occurrence unless they’d been so angry, they had not used enough caution. But then again, her father and mother had been caught off-guard, too.

She stared out the window. “Why did your sister’s friend come here?”

“She’d met some hunter and ran away from her family. Her family should have taken care of the matter, not mine. But since my sister had gotten involved, we couldn’t very well let her run loose on her own.” He sounded angry.

She wanted to soothe the hunter seated beside her, who had lost his identity in one foul meeting with Piaras. But Adonis wouldn’t want her pity.

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