vampire for hire 10 - moon dragon by j r rain

Author:j r rain [rain, j r]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Vampires, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Witches & Wizards, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Werewolves & Shifters, Paranormal & Urban, ghosts, Angels, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: J.R. Rain
Published: 2014-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

We were in my minivan.

I’d forgotten that this evening was “ghouls’ night out” as Allison liked to call it. I’d compromised with her and now here we were on a stakeout together...and she wouldn’t stop talking.

“Stakeouts,” I said, “are generally done in silence.”

“That was a rude thing to say, Sam. Besides, tonight was ghouls’ night out—”

“Will you quit saying that?”

She continued, without missing a beat, “—and you know damn well I look forward to this night all week. Besides, it’s also been a week since, you know.”

Yes, I knew well. It had been a week since I’d last fed from her wrist and I could feel the effects. A little lethargic. A little less than what I knew I could be. True, I’d drunk my fill of cow and pig blood from my supply in the garage, but it wasn’t the same. That was equivalent to living on McDonald’s. Eventually it wore you down and sapped your energy. Sadly, normal food didn’t help. At all. I could eat ten scones from Starbucks and still feel depleted. I needed blood, and I needed it about every other day.

Yeah, a true ghoul, I thought.

I heard that, came Allison’s thought.

“You caught me,” I said. “And we’ll take care of that later.”

That being, of course, me drinking from her wrist, usually from the same old scar. Luckily for her, she healed almost instantly as soon as I pulled away from her. Vampire saliva had that effect.

We were sitting in the front seat of my minivan, parked in the same spot down the road, in front of a house that mostly appeared empty, which was why I had chosen it.

“Is he always this busy?” asked Allison.

“Not so far,” I said.

Indeed, we saw the silhouette of a man—Gunther, no doubt—flashing back and forth behind the glass of his front door. We saw lights turn on and off. At one point, we heard him in the garage.

“So, what do you think he’s up to?”

“Hard to know,” I said.

“The full moon is in, what, three nights?”

“Two,” I said. “Sunday night.”

“Why don’t we, you know, confront him? Before he hurts someone else?”

“And make him tell me what I need to know?”

“Well...” she thought about that. “Yeah, I guess.”

“If he’s a werewolf—and it’s looking more and more like he is—then he’ll be as strong or stronger than me. Besides, if I confront him, he could go into hiding, or disappear altogether.”

“So, you’re waiting to flush him out, or catch him in the act.”

“Something like that.”

“To think there are actually these things running around at full moons, hungry for people.”

“Most aren’t running around at full moons. Most are responsible. Most don’t want to get caught. Most lead fairly normal lives and want to continue leading them.”

“Like Kingsley,” she said.

“Right.”

“And maybe this guy, too.”

“Maybe,” I said.

“So, you’re saying that they practice safe transforming?”

Sometimes Allison, despite her neediness and clinginess, made me laugh, which I did now. “Responsible transforming, yes.”

“I can see the public service announcement now,” said Allison and adopted a

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