Infernal Assassin- Vampire Killer by Melissa Hawke & Drake Mason

Author:Melissa Hawke & Drake Mason [Hawke, Melissa & Mason, Drake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Epics
Published: 2019-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

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CHATEAU LAMONIA LOOKED LIKE IT had been cut right out of the French countryside and plopped into the middle of New York City.

The entire building was made of stone that had been bleached nearly white by time and the elements. It had at least a dozen pedimented windows that I could see and no doubt more on the side facing the harbor. It had four floors in the main building and probably more in the towers that flanked the building.

Thankfully they’d forgone the battlements, portcullis, and drawbridge that House Grieves favored. Vicious and warlike, the vampires of House Grieves were the most common targets for my contracts. For them, it wasn’t just enough to be abominations who killed to live. They reveled in bloodsport. Half the dogfighting and bear-baiting going on in the United States was their doing. Feeding girls to half-starved beasts was entertainment to them. And those were just a few of their less-stomach turning ventures. They were also a bitter rival of House Lamonia.

That wasn’t to say that the other six houses weren’t repugnant in their own ways. House Avington had guided half of the world into its current incarnation simply by buying the right politicians. They’d had a hand in almost every major conflict since Europe had emerged from the Dark Ages. I was pretty sure that Machiavelli had been a disciple of theirs.

House Cheswick was the preternatural answer to the mob. They were the ones you went to if you needed something done. They dealt in some sick enterprises, the least of which was an international Human Trafficking ring. A staggering number of Jane Doe cases that turned up on the slabs of New York coroners were due to their habit of selling foreign girls to the other vampire houses as party favors.

House Omond groomed social influencers and movie stars. No one who’d been turned by their coven leader had ever faded into obscurity. I shuddered to think of the influence that they’d had on young hearts and minds when they’d weaseled their way into Hollywood. How many young girls had gotten their throats ripped out when they approached a vampire hoping to be turned into the next sensation?

I knew the least about House Exeter. They were a secretive bunch who only emerged from their castles for long enough to eat before slipping back in. I knew they worshiped a God called the Calamitous One and that they believed heartily in human sacrifice to keep him appeased.

Technically of course, most of this behavior was illegal, but the Trust turned a blind eye except for extreme cases. Vamps will be vamps, after all, and it’s not like there were many witnesses. But every once in a while, a grieving family member would walk into Anton’s shop seeking justice, and he’d give me a call. I had the right skills, and enjoyed the challenge of pulling off the hits without getting caught, by either the Trust or the vamps.

House Lamonia kept many of their ventures above board. Corporate crime was rampant within their ranks, but they were at least discreet about their kills.

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