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Urban Vampire Chapter 58
I slapped the chain against my leg and looked at Mr. Weasel, who was cowering in his chair."What was your issue?" I asked while swinging the chain lightly back and forth across my leg."I ... he ... he was working territory that belongs to me.""Working territory?""Yes. My humans own those blocks.""You're talking about prostitution?""Yeah," Mr. Weasel said.I turned my back to him, confident that he would be too afraid to try anything. I sat in my chair and placed the chain on the desk."Is this legal?" I thought to my Council."Unfortunately, yes," Mara answered."Mostly prostitution is consensual," Karen thought. "And mutually beneficial. Mostly." I opened the folder and scanned the notes Paul had made. It was pretty much what Paul had said."Since ... Terrence is no longer with us, you win the case.""Kim, we now have a new issue," Mara thought. "Terrence now leaves property and possessions."It sucked that they couldn't read each other's minds, so I had to relay
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The smell in the room was horrendous, but that wasn't why I felt a headache coming on. What did any of it matter when I was planning to trade my life for Tige's?We stayed like that for ten minutes with Marcus being as quiet as anyone could with a melting hand. Tyler came back into the room. Alone.She looked at me. Marcus had enslaved all of his employees. The other vamp was no angel, but he hadn't enslaved anyone. Mandy wanted to go to the safe house, and she knew many others who would like to go, too. I nodded my thanks to Tyler, who didn't take her seat. I repeated the news to everyone else along with my intent to behead Marcus with the chain."Please, Kim," I heard Tyler ask. "Let me kill him.""Are you sure? It hurts to kill even an already dead, evil Vampire.""I know what he's done to them," Tyler said. "I need the release." Release. I nodded.Tyler walked to the cabinet and removed a small pistol. When Marcus saw what she was doing he tried to leap up. Why he didn'
Urban Vampire Chapter 60
When I stopped moving, I was in a meadow or a large garden, and it was dark.Alexis was standing a few feet from me under the glow of the moon and stars. I looked longingly at the sky. I hadn't stopped to enjoy the stars since being turned. I hadn't had time."And you are the very one who said that being touched was a necessity for you. Now you have made it so that no Vampire can touch you without being injured." He watched me with hands clasped in front of him. Tonight he wore black pants and a black shirt that flowed long over his hips and did nothing to hide his physique. "You can touch me," I said."But I'm not just another Vampire," Alexis said. "Still, there are other things that can love you besides Vampires if those things are to your liking.""Other things, besides humans, you mean?"Alexis nodded."Why would I care about that now?""Indeed," Alexis said. "I know what you were thinking. You were thinking about the brands. What else is in your head that you would have
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Somewhere in the back of my mind I may have thought of Alexis as a love interest but not anymore. He was seriously scaring me, and I hadn't even asked him the questions I needed to ask!He and the female Vampire conferred without speaking. She glanced at me periodically, but Alexis did not.They talked for so long that I had time to examine my surroundings. Somehow I didn't think that I was in a room. I kept rubbing the toe of my shoe on the floor to see if it was solid and it was, but the room wasn't quite real. I didn't understand how it could be that way.My neck began to prickle, and another Vampire materialized in the room. He was old and stooped and wore a long white robe like a monk would wear. Someone had to turn him when he was old. It seemed such a horrible thing to be trapped for all eternity in that decrepit body. Four more Vampires materialized, each wearing white, and they stared at me. In unison they began to glide toward me—all except Alexis, who watched me with co
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The wall disappeared, and the Council of the Elders was staring at me. I looked at my empty hand. Alexis was not holding it. He had not physically moved. I could have sworn that we were actually enclosed in that wall ...Alexis' voice broke a short silence. "Kim. It has been determined that you did not knowingly offer to exchange places with Tige Lafayette in order to save yours and his life. It has been further determined that your request to replace him has been accepted. Furthermore, a punishment of death is required."I squared my shoulders and tried to be strong. I'd killed enough Vampires to know that death was quick. A few moments of discomfort and then this nightmare would be over."Thank you," I said with a strong voice.Alexis' eyes wavered from red but settled to black."Kim Russell," the black woman Vampire said, "you know that you would have earned a seat on the Elder's Council if you had lived."I looked at her. "Ma'am, I don't think I would have lived that long."
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He lowered his teeth. "Alexis, if we do this then we're going to feel even stronger about each other ...""And if we don't, there will be more pain.""Look, I'll deal with the pain if it means I'll get to live and Tige gets to live."Alexis gripped me by the back of the head and sank his teeth into my neck. "Oh!" I gasped. My fingers clenched into fists. His lips on my neck felt incredible. Goose bumps ran up and down my spine. Was he doing that mind thing on me again? No, I didn't think he was. I opened my mouth to say something, but my teeth dropped instead.I did not want to link any closer to this man. He had just ripped Kaniji's tongue out of her mouth.Alex put his other arm around me and pulled me taut against his body. His other hand gently forced my face to his neck. My pulse quickened but I refused to bite.He loosened his grip on the back of my neck. With his arm still around me he ran his free hand beneath my T-shirt. His hand closed over my breast. I could feel m
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I gently pulled my hands out of his grasp and held his hands. "Paul, I'm so sorry for what I said. I didn't mean it."He shook his head. "I didn't leave because of what you said. It doesn't matter right now. Kim, what I don't understand is how you could make the decision to die. What were you thinking? Was it me?" "No, no, no. It wasn't you." I looked past him at the wall. "Mostly it was Tige and an overwhelming desire to protect him. But I'll admit that it wasn't all Tige. Paul, I just wanted to give up. Hell, I'm only existing on borrowed time. I'm such a fuck up at this! I have no idea what I'm doing half the time, and Tige is supposed to be here, not me"He shook his head violently. "Tige's life is no more important than yours!""Paul, it doesn't matter now because neither of us has to die. I can save Tige's life as well as my own."Paul seemed to calm down. "How?""I have so much to tell you, but …"I looked around, unsure of how much I could say ..."Tony said no one can o
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"What?" "To be wrapped in a sheet of silver."My eyes got big. "For how long?" He opened his eyes. "From midnight until just before dawn."I inhaled deeply and stared at my wrapped wrists. "That's not possible. The silver will melt through me in seconds.""It's not too late, baby." I walked to the far wall and sat, sliding my back down it.This was the equivalent of being burned alive. And I was going to have to ... live through it? There wouldn't be anything left of me. How could that be possible? I needed Alexis to tell me what was going on. He couldn't possibly think that I'd be willing to continue my existence as a hundred thirty pounds of melted flesh. I shuddered then remembered Tony was in the cell with me. I gulped in some air. "It's going to be okay. You didn't tell Paul.""I'm not going to tell him. That's your job. He's going to insist on being there.""No." I shook my head. I did not want that. "I just need to speak to Alexis.""I would kill him if I could,"
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