Twilight Guardians by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, New Adult & College, Paranormal, Vampires, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban
ISBN: 1500762954
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Goodreads: 22798222
Publisher: Thunderfoot Publishing
Published: 2014-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

“This is freaking amazing!” Charlie shouted. She stood on the top of the 100 foot high, rock climbing wall that she and the other recruits had been ordered to climb. She’d scrambled up it like some kind of spider-girl. The others were coming up now, and climbing faster than any normal person could, but she had smoked them all. As she stood looking down from a dizzying height, her blood pumped madly through her veins. “I can’t believe it.”

“I told you it would be worth the discomfort, didn’t I?” LT, who’d been waiting for her at the top, could not seem to contain his own smile. “Didn’t I?”

She sent him a hateful glance. “I don’t remember. I was too busy screaming in agony.”

“But you’re not screaming now.”

“I told you to stop. You did it to me anyway. That’s not right, LT. I’m not going to let you get away with that, and I don’t care who you work for.” She supposed she should be respectful, do the “Yessir, Lieutenant Townsend sir” bit, but fuck that. She was strong enough to rip out his liver, and he knew it.

She had never felt like this before. She’d run five miles today in about 10 minutes. Only hours after the treatment. And she hadn’t even been out of breath. She could’ve done it again.

LT had a notebook with him, and he marked down the time it had taken her to make the treacherous ascent.

“How’d I do?” She didn’t need to ask, but she did anyway.

“Just under a minute. The fastest it’s ever been done was five thirty-four. You shattered the record.”

“I’ll shatter it on every course you’ve got,” she told him, and then she closed her eyes as some of the sadness she was trying to keep sealed inside her leaked out. “But you’d better not break your promise. I’m attending my mother’s funeral.”

He nodded. “Tomorrow night. Nine p.m. I’ve taken care of everything and believe me, Charlie, we spared no expense. We got the Methodist minister you requested, the flowers you said were her favorites, the musical selections, the readings. Everything will be just the way you said she would want it.”

She nodded. “That’s...thank you.”

“You’re a huge asset to the cause, Charlie. We want you to realize how much we appreciate having you as a part of the team.” He lowered his eyes, then raised them again to look into hers, and she got a little trill of alarm shooting up her spine, because he didn’t look like her commanding officer anymore. “And I want you to know how much I appreciate you, too. On a personal level.”

“I...” She didn’t know how to answer that. She had decided, somewhere between begging them to stop, and hearing him order the doc to crank it up to high gear, that she hated Lucas Townsend. She had got what she wanted. The cure, the strength. And bonus, it had worked on her like it had never worked on anyone before, maybe because she’d imbibed vampire blood before the treatment.

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