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 92

Soft music drifted from inside, followed by the low murmur of voices as the door was pulled open. A woman with straw-colored hair and freckles across her nose that made her look younger than her obvious forty-plus years greeted them, her brown eyes going wide as soon as she saw Edmund

“Mr. Rowley.” Her voice was heavily accented; she was a New Yorker, through and through. “Are you here for the meeting?”

“Now, Carys, would I be here for any other reason?”

Some of the voices had hushed behind Carys as soon as she’d said his name, but Darby squelched the urge to peer past his arm to see inside. Carys glanced back and immediately stepped aside as a large black man, almost as tall as Edmund though whipcord thin, took her place.

“This is not an open meeting, Edmund,” he said. “And you are not on the agenda.”

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