Free Finally Dead (Eve Benson: Vampire Book 1) by P. S. Power

but the back was
just a glass booth. Well, there was wood on the bottom, but the top part was
clear and see through, meaning they could tell he was eating a lot. He needed
it though. He wasn’t as thin as he used to be, but Greater Demons ate to
extreme levels, all the time.
    In this
case it looked like hamburgers, from the food court. All of them, probably. He
had a tray stacked high with silver and red wrappers.
    Looking
up he waved with one hand and stood, setting half a burger down in a Styrofoam
container, she didn’t count, but he had a lot of the things. The burger was
resting on a small mountain of fries.
    In looks
he was a bit geeky seeming, to tell the truth. A good looking and slightly
muscular one, but nerdy, somehow. Delicate, around the edges. It was all part
of an act, but he played it so well it was easy to forget that, sometimes.
    “Bey!
Eve! How are you both doing?”
    She
spoke first, since it was her plan.
    “Not too
bad. I’m in my second whole night as a Vampire, and could already use your
help?”
    He
looked at her, and didn’t seem shocked at all. Not about her being dead. Hiram
kind of had, but not Zack. Then, Lenore was his girlfriend and she’d probably
mentioned everything to him already, if some other source hadn’t. Still she got
a hug, which was nice. Demon or not, he smelled delicious. She could hold back
though, so did, just making a point of holding him for a bit. It was
comfortable, and she knew that he, at least, could protect himself from her.
    Without
asking any questions, almost as if he’d been reading her mind, he spoke.
    “You
aren’t doing too bad, really. I’d guess you at nearly twenty years into things,
from your internal landscape and control. You won’t slip up. Now, Marissa…” He
looked at Bey and bowed. “She’s actually a pretty decent person. A
hermaphrodite. Kind of cute, too. About a thousand years old, or a little
older. Great with numbers. She won’t cheat you however. Present this
business as being for the greater good of your kind and she’ll probably bend
over to help you with it, to be honest.”
    Then
surprisingly, he kissed her. On the mouth. That wasn’t a thing that she thought
would be happening for her. Not for at least a decade. It took work to
keep her fangs back, but she managed it and used a bit of tongue in return.
    Zack
looked over at the ancient Vampire though, who smiled at them, as if they were
being cute, and not improper at all.
    “See? No
nibbling even. I thought that training program would work. You know, she
starved herself four days a week for years, trying to make certain she was
ready for this. Martial arts lessons and meditation, too. Now, shall we get to
the hard part? You want a transfer for Richard Swerlin? I can do that of
course, but it will cost you.”
    That was
the way it went with Greater Demons. Even the nice ones charged you,
didn’t they? Both Darla and Keeley had made sure all their friends were up on
that before they left to see to their own lives.
    She
looked at him and shrugged.
    “Five
percent of the new business. Just the animal blood thing. Gross, not net, so
there’s that. But if we need Node transfer help, you have to do that too. I
mean, I’ll do the lifting stuff, using my new Vampire muscles, but this offer
isn’t just for a bit of Dick shifting.” She grinned and tilted her head,
“Swerlintwerlin?”
    Zack
rolled his eyes at her, but didn’t slap her into a wall or start suggesting she
get ready for the hard anal rape.
    “ Ten percent, but I’ll back up the rest, if it fits with my schedule at the
time, plus a trip for Richard to his destination and back.”
    She
thought for a bit and then made a face.
    “Fifteen
percent… but you’ll need to put in the starting capital. Call it two hundred
million?”
    Bey
looked at her as if she were insane, so she modified that part. “Um, three
hundred million? I don’t know how much it will really cost, but we might as
well go big. Oh, also the