The Nightlife Series Box Set Books 1-4 by Travis Luedke

Author:Travis Luedke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, thriller, paranormal romance, paranormal erotic romance, dark fantasy, erotic romance, vampire romance, supernatural romance, thriller romance, nightlife series
Publisher: Travis Luedke

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NLP CHAPTER 3

From the Hilton they took a taxi. Michelle watched Aaron closely as they rode through the streets. He wasn’t overly focused on the sights. She wanted him to experience the wonders of this city she called home for three quarters of a century. She loved every street and every corner of Paris. She knew it intimately, like a lover who’s spent years exploring her partner.

He sat in silence, watching the city pass by in all its wonderful alienness, centuries of culture and architecture layered atop each other. Paris represented the center of her world. It would always be home. No matter how many years she spent abroad, it always called her back.

Time had moved on, but it was still the same city underneath it all. Nothing had really changed in seventy years, not like it did with the Germans. To think of those times brought a chill to her bones and a shiver down her spine. She had purposely blocked out those memories. Too much pain, too many things she didn’t want to remember.

His mind occupied with dark painful thoughts, Aaron barely noticed the city. She read it all. Wide open, he broadcast to her as he recalled his last moments with his beautiful raven-haired bride.

Against Michelle’s express wishes, he’d taken Anastasia as a bloodslave, his first. Drugs, murder and mayhem soon followed in a downward spiral of events. They had awakened four nights ago to find their pet kidnapped by Colombians. The confrontation left no one standing. Aaron’s beautiful new bloodslave died in his arms, a casualty of circumstance. His guilt weighed heavily on his conscience. He believed her death could have been avoided if he had done things differently.

“She would not have lived long. It was inevitable.” Michelle squeezed his hand.

“I know you’re right, but it doesn’t help.”

Aaron’s pain assaulted her through their linked minds, raking her over broken glass. She could block his intrusions, but not his transmissions. He forced her to live through his emotions when he failed to contain them. Ana’s death had hit him hard. He now questioned everything about himself and his life with her. He had lost his complacency.

She tried to distract him. “Look, this is the Pantheon. It was once a church. They entombed the martyrs and poets there – Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo. France murders its best and brightest and then buries them in a monument.” She smirked as he shook his head at the irony. “You can see all of Paris from the dome, it’s wonderful.”

She pointed to the massive white stone columns and bas-reliefs at the entryway to the monument. He leaned over into her lap to better see the column-ringed dome atop the structure as they drove past. “I will take you inside sometime. It’s closed to visitors at night, but I know a way in.”

Nothing in Paris remained closed to her for long. She always found her way in. Even when the Germans ran the city with an iron fist, they couldn’t keep her from going where she wanted.

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