Joey W. Hill by A Vampire's Claim

Author:A Vampire's Claim
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Fiction
ISBN: 0425226085
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 2009-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

In the desert, you saved my life. You think I don’t know you’re the type of man who’d work ten jobs to care for his family?

I don’t need that. I need other things from you.

And do I provide them, my lady?

She’d given him a leisurely glance, that distant smile. “In spades.”

Still, he felt damned uncomfortable with it, though he wasn’t quite sure why. And he paid for the bloody beer.

Lady D, as she was known to the staff, had her own private wing, and it was clear no one ventured there unless invited. She underscored that herself when, arriving just before dawn, she left him with a lingering kiss and smile, and told him the maid would show him to his room. Then she disappeared.

As he prowled the room, he found himself tempted to reach out, try to speak to her. The bed looked solitary, lonely. He’d stay on the floor in his swag.

Bugger it. If she liked her alone time, he couldn’t cast stones, could he? When she wanted him, she’d let him know. That suited him fine. It wasn’t like he’d had the time to get so used to her company he couldn’t do without it.

Dev, find the pen and pad in the desk. There are people I need you to contact today, arrange for their stores to be open after dark. Use my name and they’ll agree.

Startled by her intrusion into his thoughts, he assumed, with some relief, that she hadn’t heard them. He jotted down the names and stores she noted; then, before he could speak further, she added, If you have any difficulties, see the staff and they’ll help.

Also, please check over the house accounts and review maintenance with the property manager, Mr. Forbes. As my third-marked servant, you would oversee the maintenance and operation of all my properties. He sensed a smile in her voice then.

That should keep you busy, but be sure to get some sleep. I’ll be up by sunset. Be ready to go with me.

Keep him busy. Bollocks, she had heard his thoughts. However, it hadn’t escaped his notice that part of this trip was about exposing him to the wide variety of things a third-marked servant was supposed to know and do, to see if he could handle it.

Right. Because, whereas being the bait for some psychopathic vampire’s three-day game wouldn’t faze him, knowing he had to inventory a pantry might send him screaming.

The echo of her laughter in his head had his gut easing, if not his loneliness.

For the next two nights, he revised his opinion of shopping as a leisure pursuit. A human woman could be singleminded in the pursuit of her goal, he knew, but a vampire female was dedicated to the hunt, and tireless. At the end of the evening, when they got in, he was exhausted by all the choices, decisions and—he shuddered—color swatches, such that he practically staggered, falling facedown on his swag. Almost exhausted enough to ignore the fact she was shutting him out of her room and sometimes even her mind, far more than she’d done before.

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