Free Crónicas Vampíricas 10 Cántico de Sangre by Anne Rice Page A

sweet and loving nurse whom I can dazzle like that, I've done it, I know, and they'll feed her
    Creole chicken and rice in the kitchen. You're blinding me, Beautiful. Put on your clothes. " "Right-O, Boss," she whispered . A smile flitted across her face, but I could tell her mind was giving her no peace. One minute she wa s
    looking at the flowers as though they were out to attack her and the next she was plunged into thought .
    "But what about the people left in this house?" she asked. "They all saw me when I came in. I know wha t I looked like. We tell them it's a miracle? " I burst out laughing . "Is there a raincoat in your closet, Quinn? " "I can think of something fancier than that," he replied . "Cool. And you can carry her down the steps? I already told Clem we'd be going into New Orleans. " "Right-O, Boss," she said again, with a faint smile. "What are we going to do in New Orleans? " "Hunt," I said. "Hunt and drink from the Evil Doer. You use your telepathic power to seek them out. Bu t
    I'm going to assist you. I'm going to lead you to the kill. I'm going to be there with you. "
    She nodded. "I'm positively parched," she said. Then her eyes went wide. Her tongue had just touched he r tiny fang teeth. "Good God," she whispered . "He's in Heaven," I said softly. "Don't let Him hear you. " She took the panties from Quinn and slipped them on, pulling them up over her little nest of red pubi c
    hair. That was ten times worse than pure nakedness. The lace slip with its delicate straps came over her head, a bit long for her because she wasn't as tall as Aunt Queen had been, but otherwise it was fine, snug over her breasts and hips, the broad lace hem just above her ankles.
    Quinn took out his pocket handkerchief and wiped the caked blood off her cheeks. He kissed her, and she fell to kissing him, and for a moment they were just lost to each other, kissing and kissing, like two long graceful cats licking at each other.
    He picked her up off her feet and wouldn't stop kissing her. They were both of them purring. He wante d so badly to drink just a taste of her blood . I slumped down in the chair at Quinn's desk .
    I listened to the house. Clatter of dishes in the sink, Jasmine talking. Cyndy, the Nurse, was there crying at the sight of Aunt Queen's room; and where was Quinn's mother, Patsy? Clem out front waiting for us with that big car, yes, right, don't frighten her by carrying her through the air; take the car.
    In a daze of small considerations, I watched her slip on the silk dress. The silk dress appeared handmade with embroidered cuffs and a tight embroidered collar that Quinn clasped at the back of her neck. It hung to her ankles. It looked divine on her-like a gown rather than a dress. She was a barefoot princess. Oh yeah, that's a cliché, well then, so is a fulsome and comely young woman. Shove it.
    She put on a pair of slightly scuffed little white slippers, the kind you can buy in any drugstore, the ones she'd obviously worn over here, and after she put her head back and tossed her hair, she was almost complete. It was vampire hair now, and it needed no real brushing, each strand fighting with the strand next to it, the whole voluminous and gleaming, her forehead high and well proportioned, with eyebrows divinely set, and then she flashed on me. I'm still here, guys.
    "It's tricky," she said gently, as if she didn't want to be rude to me. "He knows you have a cameo in your pocket, and so I know because I can read his thoughts."
    "Oh, so that's what I've done here," I said, laughing under my breath. "I forgot about the cameo." I gave it to Quinn. I could foresee this triangular telepathy being something of a nightmare.
    Yes, I'd wanted them free to read each other's thoughts, so why the Hell was I jealous?
    Towering over her, he pinned the cameo carefully in the center of the embroidered white collar. It looked old and fine.
    Then in an anxious whisper he put a question to her.
    "You wouldn't wear Aunt Queen's