Nightrise by Nell Stark & Trinity Tam

Author:Nell Stark & Trinity Tam [Stark, Nell & Tam, Trinity]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Lesbian
ISBN: 9781602822382
Google: Iz-ncQAACAAJ
Publisher: Bella Distribution
Published: 2011-08-15T14:00:00+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.

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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. I wanted the bank to move beyond its humble

beginnings as a simple savings and loan operation, and Bridget’s

guidance would be instrumental.

After informing her that I needed

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