Free Hex and the Single Witch (Vehicle City Vampires) by Roxanne Rhoads Page B

been fifty shades of red at that point, but I was too
damn proud to cower in my car while I waited for him. Good thing no one else came
over to me. And geez, did Malone have to see my boobs? Probably made his night,
he stared at them enough through my clothes, seeing them almost bare was
probably an answer to his prayers.
    “Here ya go, you
need to put those nipples away before you poke an eye out with those things.”
    I turned another
shade of red and took his sweatshirt and hurriedly slipped it on. It smelled
like him. Clean, manly…sexy. Always with his scent. He was such an ass, but he
smelled so damn good. The hoodie fell right above my knees and made me feel
like a little girl playing dress up, it hung so huge on me. But it was warm and
covered my almost naked breasts.
    “So you coming
or what?” He stood there waiting for me.
    “Oh, yeah.
Sorry, no caffeine in my system so I am not functioning fully,” I mumbled.
    “Uh, huh, we’ll
have to get you some cause we need you on your game, Annie girl. There are
dangerous vampires in there who caused quite a scene tonight. We need to know
if their fight has anything to do with the murders.”
    “I doubt it,
probably just a territorial thing. You said the one guy was from out of town,
right?”
    “Yeah, he’s one
of those pompous English vampires. They act so damn superior to everyone else.”
    “Yeah, probably
pissed the local off.”
    “Speaking of the
local, why’d he ask for you specifically?”
    “Uhh, well, all
the local Others know I am the Preternatural Liaison, so they know when
something goes down I am the one to call to keep things on equal ground between
humans and Others.” I fidgeted, why didn’t I want Malone to know about me and
Galen? It was no big deal, right?
    “Yeah, that’s
not the vibe I was getting from him. Sure there’s not more to it? You banging
this bloodsucker or something?”
    I gasped
completely shocked, this was going a little far, even for Malone. “I am not
banging anyone. Not that it’s any of your business.” Holy crap on a broomstick,
he hit the nail on the head. I was not sleeping with Galen, but Goddess knows I
wanted to.

    I swear Malone
looked relieved. “It’s my business if it interferes with your job or this
investigation and I…” he stopped himself, there was something else, another
reason he didn’t want me banging Galen. He left it unsaid, which was probably a
good thing because I had a feeling I didn’t want to hear it.
    We had to cross
Saginaw Street to get to the club from where I was parked. A huge area of the
brick road was covered with blood.
    “I thought you
said it was just a fight, it looks like someone was slaughtered out here. The
bricks are covered with blood!”
    “I don’t know.
Bystanders say it was just a fight. From what I seen of the two vamps neither
one was hurt bad. Of course they heal so fast it’s hard to tell.”
    I walked
carefully around the blood not wanting to step in any of it as we continued to
the club.
    I walked into
VAMP and the energy in the room sizzled. So thick it stuck to me like something
viscous. The back of my neck tingled with unease. My skin felt like it was
coated with something slightly sticky. Vampire pheromones ran rampant and the
human cops all looked queasy.
    “Malone, get all
the human cops out of here. I told you to keep humans out of VAMP.”
    “I didn’t know
you meant keep the cops out. I thought you just meant civilian humans. We had
to have some of our guys in here.” He paused and looked at me. “And what do you
mean human cops? All of them are human, aren’t they?”
    I looked at him.
Seriously! He didn’t know which guys on the force were not human.
    “Uhm, no they
are not all human. The ones that don’t look nervous or queasy can stay; get the
rest out of here. The vampires are filling the club with so much power I have
no idea what could happen. You might want to chill outside for a bit too, just
in case.”
    “There is no