Inked Beauty: Wicked Inked duet: Book 2 (Out of the Fire 3) by Candace Blevins

Author:Candace Blevins [Blevins, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampireromance, Paranormal, Romance
Publisher: Kaleidowords Publishing
Published: 2023-04-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Three days later, Nick drove one of the coterie vans with shapeshifter entertainers, as well as Ambrose, Ellania, and Lauren. The performing vampires had gone to the valley before the sun went down, so they’d be in the theater when they rose. With the extra shows, the first performance was earlier in the day, and they would have to rise and perform much earlier than anyone was accustomed to. The youngest of them wouldn’t make the first performance, but most were old enough to rise in time.

The theater with the all-supernatural cast was made for this, so all backstage areas as well as the main performance hall were light-tight.

Most of the shapeshifters, however, had spent the night in the coterie mansion, and they were all riding into the valley together in a convoy of vans, with the one Nick was driving carrying fourteen people.

The show would go on, but mostly only because the Concilio insisted they get things back to normal for the humans. Given the choice, Nick felt Gavin would’ve kept the theaters closed until the threat was over, because whoever was hiding Morella was capable of thwarting Apollonius, and that was damned scary.

To do his job as a physical therapist, he should be at one of the dance-intensive shows with humans, helping his patients warm up beforehand, and then working on them after the show. However, to do his job as Rex, he needed to be with his lionesses, watching over them, and most of them were working the supernatural show.

And to do his job as one of Lauren’s guards, he needed to be right where he was, driving Lauren down the mountain. Gavin hadn’t assigned him this job, but the Amakhosi had. Realistically, Lauren’s security detail was probably overkill, with a demigod, a goddess, and a Rex, but that was fine. Nick wasn’t going to take chances with Lauren’s safety.

Lauren was on the phone for part of the trip, talking to caterers and lighting people, and working the logistics for four showings today instead of three. In some ways, Lauren’s job should be Chief Problem Solver, because everyone came to her with their problems and expected her to fix them.

And she did.

The fact she had two degrees from Harvard, one in business and another in theater, would seem on the surface to make her ideally suited for this job, but he figured she could’ve done it without the degrees. If she’d spent those four years in pretty much any theater, she’d have easily gained the hands-on knowledge necessary to do this job. However, without the degrees, it’s possible no one would’ve trusted her in the position. Well, Gavin would’ve, but only after he’d seen her capable of handling the job for someone else, and that only happened because of the degrees, and the networking necessary while she obtained them.

For his job as physical therapist, he absolutely needed the things he’d learned in college, but—

The van in front of him went off the road, careening and crashing down the side of the mountain.

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