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 9

And Mathias was anything but a sap.

He whirled as soon as he felt the body heat enter the alley. A blur of motion, he clamped one hand over the pimp’s mouth and the other across his windpipe, making noise impossible as he dragged him back into the brackish murk. Mathias wasted no time on niceties, vamping out the second before wrenching the man’s head to the side and exposing his pulsing jugular. His fangs sank deep into the thick vein, and the first rush of hot blood down his throat made him growl in satisfaction.

Every feed was different. Every human had his or her distinct taste, a lifetime of indulgences coloring the blood so that it was as individual as appearance. Some were more delicious than others; some had the capacity to make him forget time. Some made him wonder why he bothered with humans at all, and some made him wish that he’d never been sired in the first place.

All feeds made Mathias hard as a rock.

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