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"Five hundred," he announced, his words clipped and his voice ru that wasn’t an accent If I could see through the shroud of e Only sorowl their words the way he did Noas re
I unsheathed the blade, all twenty-eight inches of hand-folded steel, and the sword sang to e and violence I plopped ods I kneasn’t declined, because I already had the weapon slung over o kill a vampire, shall we?"
If the old man understood me, he didn’t seem to care
The Columbia was one of several upscale hotels that popped up around New York from time to tined around the concept of the Canadian province of British Coluht was filtered through dappled green sconces to give the ih tree leaves The lobby floor was Plexiglas over river rock, with fresh water flowing under guests’ feet Instead ofwater and birds
It made the wolf in me very, very happy
My vampire half, on the other hand, was suspicious of even fake sunlight
I’d er to sell me his e what you can get when you show a little cleavage Or offer to pay twice the value of what so a concealed weapon and bri with otiating with the bike er, and since we’d already reached the hotel, I couldn’t call him back What could I say if I did? Sorry, Detective, I need to kill soet to the s back, lurking in the fringes and doing what va completely unseen in a roouests and tourists anted to photograph the now-famous lobby I couldn’t do Charlie in down here, so it looked like I’d need to go to his room after all
I was probably the only wo to Charlie Conaway’s hotel roo up to the front desk, which was made of driftwood set between two tote, I threwover with ditzy charful look I ht not have been able to enthrall huh, I could be more persuasive than usual "I’ way and winked for goodmadewasrarity for me because of how much blood it required, I would have felt my face heat up then As it was, I accepted this hat it took to get atekeeper
Not to mention, if Charlie’s victims were under the thrall, they would have used sie I probably wasn’t the first, but I would be the last
"Penthouse Three" He nodded towards the elevator bay, whose doors were rescued barn wood instead of typical gold "Just take it to the top"
Holden met me at the elevator doors but stayed silent until they shushed closed behind us
"Who is Charlie to you?" I asked, breaking the quiet lull
He stiffened Getting a physical reaction out of hiht track I’d suspected his attitude tonight had to be the result of so iddy behavior, juxtaposed with bouts of surliness, made me wonder what the two vampires meant to each other
"It doesn’t matter"
"It does matter I’ve never seen you so moody before I’ve never seen you happy before"
He smiled "You’ve seenwords to make my point
"I’ll confess,a ht" His smile was more honest this tiiveaway of how old he was, because even the passé slang sounded forced
"Jackass," I countered Holden always seemed miffed to hear a lady swear, so I tried to do it as often as possible around hi to Detective Tyler