The II AM Trilogy (Book 2): Blood Hunt by Buecheler Christopher

Author:Buecheler, Christopher [Buecheler, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: vampires
Publisher: Christopher Buecheler
Published: 2011-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

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“This … you lived here?” Sasha asked, her disgust evident. She had visited worse slums in her life, but the idea that Molly had ever spent time here seemed absurd. The girl beside her gave a cynical laugh.

“You see?” she asked. “I told you taking the Caddy was a bad idea.”

Sasha nodded. Molly had convinced her to take a cab, something Sasha rarely did, and she was thankful for it. The area was filled with chop shops and auto yards, and Sasha doubted that all of their parts were acquired by legitimate means.

More than a match for half a dozen humans at a time, Sasha felt no inherent fear of the place, but she was both disturbed and saddened by what she was seeing. Litter was piled in drifts against dilapidated buildings covered in graffiti, their foundations slowly sinking, giving them drunken, leaning appearances. A block down the street was a large group of men who appeared to be gathered around a fistfight. They were laughing, shouting profanity, occasionally throwing garbage from the street into the center of the ring their bodies had formed.

“Lived here. Worked here. Once in a while I had to pick someone up on the corner but not usually. Darren mostly arranged stuff. I uh … I cost too much for most of the guys you find on the street.”

“Why is that?” Sasha asked, more out of instinct than real interest. A moment later her brain caught up with what Molly had said and filled in the blanks. She glanced at Molly, who suddenly looked miserable.

“Rather not talk about it,” Molly said.

“Never mind. I understand,” Sasha said.

They walked down the street in the opposite direction from the fight, and Molly began rattling away, barely pausing for breath, pointing out landmarks.

“Some guys tried to rape me under that bridge. Two and Janice started screaming for Darren and one of the guys pulled a knife and I was like ‘oh shit I’m dead’ but he got up off me and started chasing Two, who I guess he sort of knew, and then Darren came out of the building with this huge gun and he just started shooting, right in the middle of the street. All the guys ran away and when the cops came later, me and Two had to go with them to a motel and do a group job. She’d never done it before and after she just kept crying and apologizing and I had to give her some of my smack so she could calm down.”

Molly’s voice had a rough, almost frantic edge to it, and after a time Sasha put her hand on the girl’s shoulder.

“You do not need to tell me these things, Molly, if it’s hurting you.”

“I …” Molly paused, shut her eyes, visibly struggling against tears. After a moment, she looked up, her eyes red-rimmed and bloodshot. “If I talk about it, I don’t have time to th—think about it.”

“Then by all means, continue, if it helps you.” In truth, Sasha found the stories fascinating, in their own gruesome way.

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