Nightrise: A Paranormal Romance by Nell Stark & Trinity Tam

Author:Nell Stark & Trinity Tam [Stark, Nell & Tam, Trinity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, General, Lesbian, Romance, Occult & Supernatural
ISBN: 9781602822382
Google: Iz-ncQAACAAJ
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2011-08-16T20:39:40+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I instructed the cabbie to drop me off at the side door of the Bank of Mithras. Floodlights illuminated its gleaming marble edifice, but the small lobby was dark—closed, by all appearances, when in fact the bank’s underground level was open to business for our nocturnal clientele. We maintained a fully operational storefront during the daylight hours, but vampire customers now overwhelmingly outnumbered the humans. Even some shifters had decided to open accounts, though they were few and far between now that Balthasar Brenner had rekindled the tension between our species.

The side door was monitored by a keypad, and only vampire clients and staff had the clearance to enter. Once inside, I rode an elevator down to the heart of the bank. I could have entered my office suite directly from the street via a service entrance at the back of the building, but I wanted to put in an appearance on the subterranean lobby floor. It was good for clients and employees alike to see me taking an active interest in daily business, especially since word of the attack at Tartarus would have gotten out by now.

When the doors opened, I stepped out onto the polished floor and was greeted by a smattering of applause. I allowed myself a faint smile, but didn’t linger. To the right of the tellers, Kyle sat at a large desk that guarded the first of several doors to my office. He leapt to his feet when he saw me, but at my warning glance he said nothing. I gestured for him to follow and led him into the antechamber where visitors who required my personal attention waited before I called them into my office. The room was empty, and as soon as the door closed behind us, Kyle freaked out.

“Oh my God, Val, are you all right? What happened? Everyone is saying Balthasar Brenner sent a team of assassins to the club and you took them out like—”

I cut him off before he could launch into whatever elaborate simile the rumor mill had concocted. “There was one. She’s dead. I’m fine, and we have work to do.”

His mouth closed with a click. “How can I help?”

Kyle’s puppy-like loyalty was his best attribute. I was gratified to see that he hadn’t lost it upon being turned, though it might well disappear when he became a full vampire. But that was still months away.

“I want to know everything there is to know about Christopher Blaine’s personal life. Dig, and come back with what you’ve found well before sunrise. I don’t want to have to stay here all day.”

He paled at the magnitude of my order but only nodded. “One other thing,” I said as he turned to leave. “Tell McMahon I want to see her immediately.”

Two years ago, Bridget McMahon, buy-side analyst for Goldman Sachs, had been out celebrating the magnitude of her bonus check when she had stumbled into the wrong club and been turned. Last month, I had hired her to head up the Bank of Mithras’s research department.

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