Free Eternal Island (Book 1 in the Eternal Series) by K. S. Haigwood, Ella Medler Page B

opportunity. “Name it and it’s done.”
    Abe turned and stared Jonah straight in the eye. “Get rid of Julia.” Abe smiled as Jonah’s jaw dropped.

C HAPTER 12
    Jonah and Abe weren’t blood related in that sense. They had both been turned by vampires who were actually brothers, as humans. Of course, the brothers were long gone now. They got bored with life in general and introduced themselves to the sun. That happened a lot in the vampire world. Vampires get bored with day to day life and can’t find enough activities to keep them occupied so they off themselves.
    Not Jonah. He’d planned an eternity full of activities, and in his seven hundred thirty-eight years he had managed to only accomplish about a quarter of it. He was adding new ones to the list every single day.
    When Jonah met Abe for the first time he called him ‘cousin’. Abe had been so pissed off that Jonah decided to stick with it. After all, that’s what Jonah did best, piss people off. That, and bed as many women as possible. There’s nothing unhealthy about having a lot of women, he concluded, as nothing bad had come out of it so far. Vampires couldn’t get diseases of any kind unless you called getting burned to a crisp by the sun in less than ten seconds ‘skin cancer’.
    A few of those women had almost driven him to the sun, God bless them. He got too close a few times, almost fell in love, but realized at the very last minute that he was immortal and didn’t want to spend his eternity with the same woman. No, Jonah was too wild for that, too free. Plus, he had very strict life rules: he cared about only one thing, himself, and that’s just how he liked it.
    The only problem he really had was keeping the women he had from bumping into each other. He had about twenty-five or so on speed dial and about ten more on the side, in case of emergencies. What could a poor vampire do? He loved women and that was not illegal in any country he’d loved them in so far. Nothing to feel ashamed about, nothing to be hunted down for. Except, maybe, for his phone number.
    Despite not liking Julia so much, Jonah was disturbed as he walked out of Code Red. Abe’s request was weighing heavy on his mind. That was a rarity in its own right, because Jonah didn’t worry or even think that often. Julia wasn’t one of his favorite vamp-witches or whatever the hell she was, but he had thought she was one of Abe’s.
    “Looks like this is going to be an interesting visit after all,” Jonah said to himself as he started his blood red Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1340R, the fastest crotch rocket known to man, going in excess of two hundred miles per hour with a stage one turbo kit and titanium Yoshi exhaust.
    He loved his bike like he loved his women, fast, wild and controllable. It had been too long since he rode his baby. He kept her in garage number three, under the palace. He could tell that she needed a tune up. It had been a good six months since Abe had his temper tantrum and told Jonah to leave Eternal Island and not return. Jonah thought that was long enough to let him cool off. All in all, his intuition didn’t seem that far off the mark. At least Abe was offering him a deal.
    Jonah needed some time to think about all of this and he knew exactly how to do that thinking. An eighty-five mile long highway went straight through the middle of the island, no bends, just some secondary roads leading off here and there; perfect for high-speed meditation.
    “Time to open you up, baby. Come on, let’s do it.” Jonah twisted the throttle and did a wheelie for a quarter mile before he let the front wheel drop to the pavement and gave her all she had.
    He’d really missed this place, but he couldn’t really sight-see, even with his heightened vampire senses. Going two hundred and forty-eight miles per hour made it hard to concentrate on the road ahead, much less what was in the distance, off the road. He might be immortal but going this speed and hitting that