The Recruit by Addison Albright

Author:Addison Albright [Albright, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Neil Franklin

“You do it this time,” Natalie said. “The whole delivery, on your own.”

Natalie looked to be in her low-twenties, and she was one of the overall younger vamps logging less than a century overall.

They were in one of the specialized delivery vans with heavy vampire-designed and built safes—one basic, and a larger one for cold storage—each welded to the vehicle’s frame. They required both a combination and fingerprints to open. The safes were camouflaged and never visible when the van’s doors were open. Whether it was written communication that would be destroyed after reading, or blood distributions, all inter-vampire deliveries were kept in the safes.

The specially equipped vans also required fingerprints to start them. They looked like basic delivery vans on the outside, and the fingerprint pad that supplemented the standard key starter was inconspicuously located so would-be thieves wouldn’t even notice it. Standard “hot wiring” could not bypass the need for a fingerprint.

Neil raised his brow but stepped forward without hesitation. He’d seen Natalie do it enough times. He opened the outer cabinet that further shielded the existence of the safes from potential prying eyes and turned the dial. The combination, like everything, had been easy to commit to memory. He softly laid his fingers onto the pad that was out of sight on the side of the safe to complete the process, and a click signaled he could rotate the heavy handle and open the door.

He selected the six small, cool boxes for this stop and re-secured the safe. These deliveries would be easy. Even though he hadn’t yet met the recipients, he knew he had nothing to worry about from fellow vamps.

Natalie waited in the van as he strode toward the brownstone. The vampire deliveries were carefully coordinated, and he was immediately buzzed in. They knew when their deliveries would arrive, and he knew who would be home to receive them.

This was a faction-owned building with six apartments, all vampire-occupied. Only two occupants were home at this time, but he could safely leave all the packages with them.

He knocked on the first door on the left. A woman who looked to be in her early sixties answered. “Good afternoon, Neil. I’m glad to finally meet you.” She spoke with a Boston accent, and looked like someone who wasn’t quite ready to give up her old hippie days. It seemed so natural for her, but no doubt Marshall, Willis, and Mona were behind it.

“Nice to meet you, too, Daisy,” Neil replied. “I’ve heard a few stories.”

Her eyes crinkled with laughter. “Albert tell you about when I got to play his cantankerous old mother?”

“He did.” Yet at only a hundred and sixty-three, she was at the younger end of the range of faction members, at least when their total number of years was considered. Neil snickered. “I’m told y’all enjoyed that role a little too much.”

He handed over four of the boxes. “It was fun,” she said. “But I think I like this time around better.”

She worked part-time on weekends in hospital admissions.

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