Free Crimson Rush A Vampire Romance (Crimson Book 1) by Lorraine Kennedy Page A

don’t have anywhere to go. Shelia was my only family, and she’s gone now.”
    “Yeah but still … there’s got to be something better than this.”
    “Who knows? Maybe one of these days.” He forced another smile.
    “Are you afraid of Marcus? Is that why you won’t relay my message?” I asked.
    “The less I have to deal with him, the better I like it. He’s too unpredictable. At least with Grace, I know when to expect her to be mean and bitchy, but with Marcus…” Aaron paused and shook his head. “He can go dark on you before you even know what hit you.”
    The more I learned about Marcus Savoy, the more uncomfortable I was with the idea of working against him in his own nest.
    What would he do to me when he found out?
    Thinking about it filled me with images of my body parts being scattered all over town. Not a pleasant thought, so I quickly focused on something else.
    Max.
    I had to remember, I was doing this for him.
    “Well maybe I’ll just come back later and talk to Marcus,” I told Aaron, a smile straining my mouth.
    I wasn’t about to force the issue of him relaying a message to Marcus. He already seemed miserable enough.
    “Well you could always stay here and help me setup for the night.”
    There was a trace of loneliness in his voice that I couldn’t bring myself to ignore. “Okay … what do you need help with?”
    There was a lot more prep work involved than what I’d imagined. Not that I could complain. It was the type of work that I’d originally come to Club Crimson to do. It also gave me the opportunity to get to know Aaron better. I was pleasantly surprised to find that my first impression of him had been wrong. He wasn’t just some vampire groupie. There was a lot more to Aaron Chandler than met the eye. He seemed like a nice boy. Unfortunately, he had gotten involved with the wrong people, just like his sister.
    Aaron was from Minneapolis, and a college dropout. Before vampires derailed his life, he’d had a bright future in video game design. Video games seemed to be the one subject that put sparkle in his eyes.
    With two of us working, the prep was done way ahead of schedule.
    “We still have some time. Want to play a game with me?” he asked.
    I wasn’t real good at video games, so I tried to come up with some kind of excuse to get out of it. It was the look on his face that changed my mind.
    “Sure,” I told him.
    “Cool!” he said, leading me into a room in the back that appeared to be some kind of lounge. There was a large, flat screen TV with a game system hooked to it.
    “It’s been forever since I had someone to play games with. I think I’m kind of glad you came to work here,” he told me.
    Aaron sat on a brown couch, which had been strategically placed for optimal viewing. Picking up the remote, he switched on the TV.
    “Really? You don’t have anyone to play games with?” I was a little surprised. With so many people hanging around Crimson, how could he not have anyone to play with?
    Aaron shrugged. “Grace plays with me once in a while, but she’d a sore loser, and she only does it to keep me from bitching too much.”
    It was funny to think of a vampire as cool and sophisticated as Grace, playing video games.
    “So if it isn’t Marcus’s new groupie.” The unfamiliar male voice came from behind us.
    Aaron’s smile instantly disappeared.
    I recognized the vampire who stood in the door as one of the members of Night Reign. He was the one with the dark hair, and if I remembered correctly, he’d been one of the guitar players. At the moment, he was sizing me up like I was a new flavor of milkshake. Like Grace, he looked the part of a vampire. He was tall, and beneath his tight fitting leather, it was evident he had a rock- hard body. His wavy black hair reached to just about his shoulder blades. His skin was so pale that his eyes seemed like pools of shimmering dark water.
    Before I could say a word, he was kneeling in front of me, his face inches