Free The Living and the Dead (Tyler G Book 3) by P. S. Power Page A

silly to try kicking that door down just
to discover it had been unlocked the whole time.
    There was no speech from the
woman for a while, the well dressed woman, her clothing new, but done to a
classic cut, watching him without blinking. That would have made him nervous,
except that it was a very Vampire type thing. Not a Greater Demon one. Sure,
that could be faked, but it would take skill and being willing to bother with
it. It made him feel better, which might be a trick.
    For probably the first time in
history, a person being stared at directly by a Vampire was sitting there hoping she was just thinking about lunch. Which was a good point. She was a guest, and
if he was playing host, which giving her a room seemed to be saying, it would
be polite to get her some food. A thing best accomplished by raiding the
fridge. True, he might have to repay Rebekah for the blood he got from her
stores, but she owned the company, so he was betting they could go wholesale.
    "Would you like something to
eat? I think we have some Human blood in the fridge. Animal too. Ginger doesn't
eat people anymore. It's a self-discipline thing, I think, rather than her
being poor." He didn't know what an Ambassador got paid, but it was
probably more than a yogurt girl.
    There was a clap then, the pale
hands looking soft, and the nails trimmed short, but well cleaned and groomed.
    "Wonderful of you to offer,
kind sir. You'll turn my head yet, being charming that way." She actually
batted her eyes, and gave him a look that would be best described as
coquettish.
    He returned a wink. After all, he
had two girlfriends, and there were Vampire rules for Ginger, but that didn't
mean he wasn't allowed to be polite. Not as far as he knew.
    "Here let me run and get
that." He limped still, but a foot stabilized him on the right now, and
while the cane was helpful, the foot was about half size. At that rate he'd be
able to wear shoes on both feet by noon.
    Marissa walked behind him, even
though he'd planned to just dash down and get her something. That was fine,
because he realized that he didn't really know how to warm it up. The glass
bottle went into a small pan of water, and it wasn't boiled, just brought up to
about body temperature. How to tell when that happened he didn't really know.
He could guess at how warm a thing was, but Tyler didn't really know how close
he could get on the lower end. He ran at something like room temperature
himself and didn't feel it. Not in particular. So a warm day felt the same as a
freezing cold room to him.
    Which made the Vampire coming
along make sense.
    "So, Marissa, what brings
you to the area?"
    There was a slow exhalation, and
a flapping hand wave, as if she didn't want to say anything. Then, oddly
enough, she coughed and told what was probably the simple truth.
    "Honestly? I came to spy on
Eve Benson as she works here. There's no harm in those that she's chosen to
train this time, but my fellow Councilors and I wish to make certain that she
isn't working on an army to overthrow us. Not that we imagine that to be the
case! It's simply that she's become most powerful, far too soon for one of
us."
    Ty shrugged.
    "Okay. Sounds like a plan to
me. I don't know all the people involved, but Rebekah and Scotty are all right.
Not monsters or angry Vampires. Evan... He seemed nervous around me earlier.
I... Really, I think it might have been because I was there. The local
Ambassador was a bit like that too, at first. Still, Evan seems like a good
guy. The others I haven't met yet." He spoke like it was a report, which
she seemed to take it as.
    "Oh? Very nice then. I'll
need to question them all. Delicately , of course. No one sane treats a
Master Vampire casually, no matter their age. In part that's why I've come,
under the covers, shall we say?" There was a bit of a flirty air to the
words, and a look that told Ty that the woman knew exactly what she was saying
and how it would sound.
    Then, working together, they
warmed her