The Prescient: A Vampire, Fated Mates, Science Fiction Detective Novel (Vampire Detective Midnight Book 3) by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2019-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The Other Half

Nick approached the limousine warily, glancing around what he could see of the garage as he walked, his fangs partly extended.

They’d pulled right up to the glass lobby entrance of his building, on the top floor of the parking structure, which also lived inside a cement roof and walls. Nick knew they’d designed it that way on purpose, given that most of the building’s residents were vampires.

He’d already gotten into it with the security guard, who kept staring at Nick like he thought he was acting insane.

Nick definitely wasn’t acting insane.

He even tried to tone it down some⏤his voice, his words.

Clearly, though, he was weirding people out.

“She’s not coming down here,” Nick growled at him, hissing as he showed him his fangs. “I’m ordering food, and you’re bringing that food to my fucking door… understand?”

“I c-can’t do that⏤” the middle-aged, Middle Eastern man said.

“The fuck you can’t! You do it, or have someone else do it… someone human… or I’ll fucking bite you. Understand? I’ll bite you⏤”

“Sir. Calm down. Please, sir⏤”

“I’ll know if you don’t bring it to her! I’ll check!”

“Okay, sir… okay… if you’d just sign this form, telling me who it is I should let up there, which company…”

Nick stared at the electronic form showing in the window of the security booth.

He fought to remember the name of a food delivery company that would deliver to this neighborhood. A lot of the human companies wouldn’t.

He came up blank.

“Where do you get your food?” Nick growled, looking back at the human. “You get food delivered here, right? Sometimes. Right? You must. You’ve worked here since I got here.”

“F-F-Food for Humans,” the man stammered. “It’s called, ‘F-Food for Humans.’”

“That one,” Nick growled, tapping a finger sharply on the electronic document. “Write that down.”

“I can’t, sir,” the man protested, holding up his hands. “It’s illegal for me to do it. It’s for your protection… for your privacy, sir, as an I.S.F. employee…”

“I.S.F. property, you mean,” Nick growled.

Still, he felt bad, looking at the pale human on the other side of the glass.

He’d managed to scare the piss out of the poor bastard.

“Food for Humans?” he said after a pause.

The human nodded, still holding up his hands, almost like from an old cop movie, the way humans did it when the police yelled at them back in the old days.

Exhaling, human-fashion, Nick walked back from the door, clicking over to his headset and filling in the electronic form when it came up on his virtual screen. He signed the bottom, also using a pre-created signature and his DNA, pressing his thumb against the lit spot on the glass wall.

The form flashed green, and when Nick looked up the guard looked almost comically relieved.

“Thank you, sir,” he said, exhaling. “Thank you. I’ll grant access to the delivery person they send. Your… uh… friend… won’t have to leave your apartment. She won’t have to do anything.”

Staring at him for a beat too long as he thought through the man’s words, Nick nodded, grunting.

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