The Broken Angel by Monica La Porta

Author:Monica La Porta [Porta, Monica La]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Samuel saw Martina faint, but he couldn’t leave the vampire unattended. “Pick up, damn it.” Ludwig Barnes must have a life besides the office after all. Samuel let the cell phone ring until it went to the answering machine. He had called back twice already and would give up if his boss didn’t answer at the next ring.

“What is it?”

By the lack of formality and the brusque way Barnes answered, Samuel surmised his boss indeed had a life. He didn’t care to anger him at the moment. “I’m at the Orange Trees Garden and I have an unconscious vampire for you. Before you ask, I was attacked in a public park, but I raised the shield in time. None of the passersby saw anything. Send someone to pick him up.” He hung up and focused on Martina who was stirring awake.

She opened her eyes, but they were still dazed. Before, while he was fighting, she had looked at him with a distant stare.

“Martina?” He needed her to react and fast. “Can you hear me?”

She slowly straightened her back against the wall and pushed herself up to a sitting position.

“Are you okay? Can you stand?” He couldn’t move. Samuel knew the vampire was taking his time to recuperate from the fight to overthrow him and escape.

Martina frowned.

“You must leave. Someone is coming and I don’t want them to see you here. Do you understand?” The vampire’s arm moved ever so subtly and Samuel punched him in the face and knocked him out once again. “Martina, please, listen to me. You must go back to the car.”

She didn’t react. If anything, she seemed to slump back into a heap. Samuel swore, punched the vampire one last time for good measure, dismounted him, and reached Martina in two steps. He bent to put one arm around her back and the other under her knees, then hauled her to his chest and walked away from the vampire, hoping the man was truly unconscious and not just feigning it. Martina cradled close to his heart, he ambled toward a shadowed corner and gently laid her on the bench. Then he hurried back to the vampire, and from there checked that the hiding spot where he had left Martina was in fact concealing her from sight.

Both eyes on the tree behind which Martina was resting and one booted foot over the vampire, he waited for the paranormal police to arrive and take care of his prisoner. Normally, he would have personally attended to the vampire’s interrogation, but he had different priorities tonight, and was confident the truth serum concocted by the witches working at Castel Sant’ Angelo would work miracles. Not later than tomorrow, he would know why the vampire had been following him through Rome. With his mind occupied by thoughts of Martina’s wellbeing, Samuel strained his already depleted energies to keep the occlusion shield up.

By the time the paranormal police arrived, Samuel had already let the shield down twice, but no permanent harm had been done.

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