Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost

Author:Jeaniene Frost
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2013-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

With some help from Gretchen, I took a shower, glad to wash away the results of three days of being comatose and briefly dying. Then I had a bowl of soup and napped, awakening to another checkup from Dr. Romanov and more visitors as Sandra, Joe, and the other humans I’d befriended stopped by. In the evening, Marty and Gretchen came by again. Even my father dropped off books so I had something to do aside from watch my IVs drip, but the person I most wanted to see never showed up.

The next morning, Dr. Romanov pronounced me well enough to leave the infirmary. I was thrilled. Being stuck in a small, windowless room while on saline-and-vampire-blood IVs might’ve healed my body to top condition, but it was hell on my overly stimulated mind. Why hadn’t Vlad come back? He’d spent three days at my side when I was in a coma, but now that I was better, I didn’t even warrant a drive-by wave?

Maybe he was only worried that he would lose his psychic weapon, my inner voice taunted. Now that you’re better, he has no reason to be near you until he needs something.

Shut up, I snapped in reply.

Vlad hadn’t asked me to pull an impression from a single object since my return. True, I’d spent most of that time unconscious, but that didn’t mean he was concerned only because of my abilities. My nasty little inner voice could whisper all the poison it wanted. It didn’t take away from the fact that something still burned between Vlad and me. As for why he’d avoided me the past twenty-four hours, I intended to find out.

When I left the infirmary, I went to my bedroom, taking a shower after releasing my pent-up electricity in the lightning rod Vlad had set up outside my window. Then I went to the antique wardrobe, opened the doors—and stared.

Empty. Not even a single hanger remained. I went to the dressers next, opening each one with increasing disbelief.

Every last stitch of clothing was gone. If not for the towels and robe in the bathroom, I’d be naked.

I tightened that robe around me and pulled the long tassel by the door. After a couple minutes, the albino-looking vampire named Oscar appeared.

“How may I help you?” he asked with a bow.

“Do you know what happened to the clothes in this room?”

“Yes.”

I waited, but when he said nothing else, I gritted my teeth and tried again.

“And they’re not here anymore because?”

A slow blink. “Because you’re not staying here any longer.”

What?

“I’m not?” I repeated in case I’d briefly coma-d out and misheard him.

“That’s correct,” he said with another bow.

Vlad was kicking me out? Sure, he was angry I’d overused my powers, but I couldn’t believe he’d do something so drastic.

Told you he didn’t really care! my inner voice crowed.

Eat me! I roared back at it.

“Where is Vlad now?” I asked, hoping it was my overly sensitive hearing that made the question sound like a screech.

“In his room.”

I brushed by Oscar with a muttered “Thanks” before marching to the staircase.

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