True North (Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter, Vol. 6) by Jefford Nikki

Author:Jefford, Nikki [Jefford, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

11

Rule Breakers

Branches weighed down by icicles flew past the window as Jared steered the SUV back toward the city’s center. Valerie road shotgun now, and I was all too happy to take the backseat for myself. The sun had barely dragged itself to the horizon before Jared announced we had an appointment.

Good thing I hadn’t bothered removing my shoes.

“Hey, while we’re in town, mind stopping at the store?” I called from the backseat. “I didn’t get an opportunity to pack a night bag.”

“Don’t worry, we’ll make sure you’re fed and clothed,” came Jared’s reply from the front.

“Great,” I said. “What about a toothbrush and toothpaste? I’ll also need a hairbrush, soap, shampoo, and conditioner . . . or dry shampoo depending on the shower situation. I forgot to ask if our current residence has running water.”

“There’s running water,” Jared assured me, not sounding perturbed in the slightest. “Val knows how to keep us in comfort no matter the circumstances, which is more than I can say for you and Dante after I found you in that shit shack down near Cantwell.”

“Shit shack?” I repeated. “We had an entire lodge to ourselves.”

“With no electricity or running water,” Jared said.

“Wow, you weren’t kidding when you said they were slumming it.” Valerie gave a little giggle from the front.

“How do you know? Did you stop to wash your hands when you came inside or something?” I challenged.

“I can tell when a place has been weatherized for the winter,” Jared answered.

“Well, we had furniture, which is more than I can say for your McMansion in the woods.”

“We’re not looking to get comfortable and settle in,” Valerie snapped. “Like my man said, we’ve got a war to start and then it’s hasta la vista, Alaska.”

“Sounds like a bad Terminator sequel,” I muttered.

“You have no imagination,” Valerie quipped. She turned her head to Jared. “I told you she has no imagination.”

Jared chuckled then lifted one hand off the steering wheel to cup Valerie’s chin.

“That’s why I have you, baby.”

Barf and double barf.

He retracted his hand and returned his concentration to the road.

Valerie, being Valerie, wasn’t about to let up. Attention in any form made her world go round.

“Remind me why you wanted her to tag along?” she asked.

“The two of you are natural-born killers. Two of my best recruits.” Jared said the words as though reciting them.

“I am not your recruit,” I said between clenched teeth.

Jared ignored me. “You are rebellious. Like me, neither of you likes playing by the rules. And you have both defected from the agency at least once in your short time under Gabriel’s rule.”

Jared made Agent Melcher sound like a dictator or king. King of the Vampire Hunters. Jared wasn’t entirely wrong on that account, though he was delusional if he seriously thought the three of us had anything in common. I had about as much in common with him as I did with a fairy princess.

“You’re forgetting one thing,” I said. “I have a conscience, something you’re clearly lacking.”

“You’ll learn to let it go with time,” Jared said, not sounding like he doubted it for a moment.

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