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When Colin didn’t iusted sound "Is there anything else? I’ my shows"

Colin shook his head "No, ma’am That’s it I’ll check out Curtis’s like you said"

"Well, whoop-dee-doo Jesus H Christ," she rinned in spite of hiotten two steps down the stairs, he heard the clunk of a recliner slahter as Jan returned to watching her shows

He was still sht happy to see you standing on her doorstep, Murph," Robbie observed

"You got that," Colin agreed "She saved us a bit of tih Says her husband and his buddies are all over at Curtis Jenkins’s place Looks like these boys are hiding out in someone’s rec room, after all"

"Saves us some time and ammunition"

"If you find them, on’t need much ammunition," Sophia chimed in, her sexy, low voice a sharp contrast to the bloodthirstiness of her words "We vampires favor a more direct solution to this sort of problereed "I’ve seen Lord Raphael in action and direct is definitely the word I’d use"

"I want blood," Jereaze and stared at Colin "Huht itself to screaaze, noting the red glaze flickering over his eyes "I hope you get what you need, Jeremy," he said "For Mariane’s sake"

Colin turned to face the front oncethe dark road disappear beneath them as they raced to Curtis Jenkins’s house He just hoped none of that hury for would be his or Robbie’s

Chapter Forty-One

Sophia strolled down the center of the gravel road, or maybe it was a driveway They all looked the sa she cared about were the ruts to either side where the gravel had all but disappeared into the dirt, leaving a pitted, uneven mess She’d worn her sturdy, flat-heeled ankle boots, anticipating therein the dirt, but that didn’t

She smiled, amused at herself despite the seriousness of the situation She’d have to share that thought with Colin once this was all over and they were safely back in Vancouver Because that’s where she was going Nodown in South Arieved her to think so--but if it was true, then she intended to be the next Vampire Lord of the Canadian Territories And if Lucien wasn’t dead? If sohly conceal hiht be better for hiht her back to the present and the house at the end of the driveway She eyed it curiously All of theout here, but many of them were She counted five trucks pulled up in front, like horses at a hitching post And there was a glint of metal around the side of the house that could easily be one or two ed by her dark clothing, she paused, assessing the situation She ht not be as experienced in combat as Raphael and his people, or even Colin and his friend Robbie, but she’d fought her share of challenges over the years And since va strangers, she wouldn’t be standing here in front of this dishtand win

The house in front of her was mostly dark Perhaps they hoped to hide their presence froathered in the basement Either way, they hadn’t bothered with sentries The vampires Raphael had sent with her and Colin had already surrounded the house and reported they’d found no one

She identified Colin and Robbie as they ca them away despite the fact that they walked nearly as silently as a va in a the trees In response, she left the cover of the forest behind and took a single step into the yard proper A loud click sounded and she winced, lowering her eyes against a flood of yellow light froed poles around the house for what it was Security lights set on some sort of motion detector system which she’d just set off

Not that it mattered She wanted to be seen The plan was to draw the hu else

Sure enough, another light snapped on over the front door just before it opened to reveal a skinny hu out into yard It was foolish of hiet Fortunately for hi him in the doorasn’t part of their plan

"Anihts off all the time," Colin whispered from somewhere to her left

Sophia nodded and took twosure the huhtly when she appeared, freezing for just an instant too long Further testament to his poor survival instincts As if belatedly aware that he was spotlighting hiht off, saying so the screen door and stepping onto the porch He carried a rifle of some sort, and he had it up to his shoulder But while it was more or less pointed in her direction, even she could tell it wasn’t quite aimed at her She was, after all, only a woman and all by herself What threat could she possibly represent to an armed man?

This was the part of the plan Colin had objected to He’d hated the idea of her standing there in the open, just waiting to be shot Sophia had assured hiunshot wound, even one to the head as long as her brain re the list of bullets readily available which could blow her brains out the back of her head quite handily And although he’d pointed out that these were the sahton, even he had admitted, when pressed, that most men would hesitate to shoot a lone, unarument, Sophia had re to kill Cynthia Leighton, they’d shot her body, not her head Of course, it was always possible they’d been ai at her head and had simply h to worry about