Mercy of These Bones

Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life. Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead. Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back. Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe Mathias’s warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias’s nocturnal activities, and passions are flaring high. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.

Vivien Dean · Urban

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98 Chs

Chapter 39

Neither of them said a word as he turned down the street that led to Birdsong, but even from that distance, Darby saw the unmistakable flash of police lights parked outside her club.

“Damn it,” she muttered.

Mathias slowed to pull into the lot, but when a uniformed cop waved them to stop, his hand reached over to rest on her knee. “Don’t let them get to you,” he said. His voice was low, his gaze unwavering from the officer approaching his window. “Everything is going to be all right.”

That was easy enough for him to say, but Darby was prevented from a smart response by the cop tapping on his window. She held her breath as Mathias rolled it down.

“I’m sorry,” the cop said. “This is a crime scene. The club’s closed tonight.”

Darby leaned over, making herself more visible to him. “I’m Darby Bell,” she said. “This is myclub. What happened?”

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