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 61

Surreptitiously, he angled his head more in her direction. In spite of her shower, she still smelled like Edmund, too. By the time they reached the quieter front desk area of the hotel, Mathias was hard from their mingled scents.

A compact security guard with a steel-gray crew cut glanced in their direction as they approached, but his rigid stance relaxed when he recognized Darby. Mathias hung back, letting her smile and greet the man—Nelson, according to his nametag—and had to swallow his surprise when she turned back to scoop her arm through his.

“And this is Mathias,” she said, dragging him forward. “A friend of mine.”

He bit the inside of his cheek to hide his shock at being introduced like that. With a friendly smile, he nodded toward Nelson, but Darby stepped in again before he could speak.

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