Vampire Uprising by Marcus Pelegrimas

Author:Marcus Pelegrimas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780061986338
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-10-26T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Corner of North Rush and East Huron Streets

Chicago

Present Day

Paige’s story had been interrupted several times with road trip necessities such as stops for gas, a pause to pick up some fast food, and the occasional phone call. Despite all of that, it seemed to Cole as if her voice never stopped. When she wasn’t speaking, Paige switched between refusing to look him in the eye and showing him more emotion than he’d thought her capable of displaying. She wasn’t finished when they reached Chicago but seemed to have run out of steam for the moment.

“So that woman you followed to Miami …?” he asked.

She nodded. “It was Hope.”

Rico shifted in the front seat after slapping the car into Park. “Enough story time, kids. We’ve got work to do.”

Although he couldn’t see the Blood Parlor from where Rico had parked, Cole knew it wasn’t far away. “What’s the plan?”

“We go in,” Paige said as she swapped out the ammunition in her pistol with a load that consisted strictly of rounds treated with the Nymar antidote, “and burn them down.”

“Just the three of us?” Cole asked. “I get it that we can’t let what happened to Raza Hill slide, but going in for payback now could get us killed. There’s more going on than just—”

“This ain’t got a damn thing to do with payback,” Rico said in a roar that filled the interior of the car and rattled the deepest bones in Cole’s body. “It’s not vengeance and it ain’t keeping the peace. This is strictly gangland shit.”

When Cole looked over to Paige for some level reasoning, he got a response that was spoken in a cold, emotionless tone. “We always try to keep things from going this way, but when they do, they need to be dealt with. If too many dangerous people step too far over the line, they need to get their feet stomped as quickly as possible.”

“Haven’t you heard a word anyone’s been saying?” Cole snapped. “MEG’s been calling, there’s crap all over the news. What we’ve seen ourselves is more than enough to tell us this situation is already way out of our control. Trying to lay down the law now is like tossing a bottle of water onto a fucking forest fire!”

“We won’t be the only ones making a move like this,” Rico assured him. “I’ve been talking to some of the others and they’re all tracking down any Nymar that may have a clue about what’s going on.”

“Are we coordinating with any other groups for this?” Cole asked.

Paige tucked a .45 into the holster under her arm and double-checked the weapons wedged into the modified holsters on her boots. “Nope.”

“They think they got us on the run,” Rico said. “That gives us an advantage.”

Cole nervously checked his own weapons while grunting, “They do have us on the run. We ran all the way to Philly and then Wisconsin.”

“Right. They’ve probably written us off and are getting ready to roll on whatever they got planned next.

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