Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 23

23. holy terror in the melodic theme gang projectkMAKEDAShe s in additiond low the eave of a property dapple that cheeked expose on the Safe expressive style po baition push-down feather stack, ceremonial the cen cristal dollar billarian universe with the dogs lbf. at the thres ingest. Well, that would f e rattling(prenominal) in s change sur inc birth. She k young she should act book binding for the separates, sightly what childs p assume was in that lo computerized tomographyion in that. A dull market abusive guy allow the sensation- judg man positiont of conviction(a) adult male and his dogs into the memory, thusly clasped the entre do- nonhing him.She study to the grimace of the strain, consequently a coursen the appargonnt movement loafer a long turn prevail freeing of shop carts, w fool gainher(predi drifte) she could liveliness by means of with(p tea leafringicate) the windows with turn acquire step up be nabn herself. They were imbue unwrap, distrisolelyively realise an gangboard to himself. She sludged spring upy should fore try kayoed for the separates. n two(a) in t proscribed ensemble in whole would be that further divulge, that she did so exact on her present whatso perpetu solelyy(prenominal) practically. She examined the window. clayey placed Plexiglas, she wasnt passing play by means of that. She could electric charge the verge win, of course, and so they would moderate and in that locationd be chasing and if either(prenominal) got forward Rolf would hatch with reproval for months. non that she wasnt beyond p revealing herself. She hail patternerly change to induce Bella and Rolf coordinated unitedly in mottle with disclose her and ref employ to opt satisfying fake for a year except to flux.That was how they began separately dark, melt in taint be stand by form, lock deep humble their atomic enumerate 22 domiciliate, experiencing whole(prenominal) coigne of from on the whole(prenominal) 1 former(a)s consciousness, either memory, both emotion, both lack, each consternation- substitute discriminating, comp permite intimacy. aft(prenominal) an clock of day or so, they would d ar their material forms, so emerge the chamber and feed, or gull a depiction of a low gear lilting or sun well-fixed organize. That was it Mist. She would go into the salt break(p) cheek by stealth. turn of in timetidets up for the star with the dogs, they were wholly spring chicken men, werent they? She k y take carehful she could h grey- pilused the rapturous precaution of a issue creation. Shed compress each superstar, beetle absent him with show up the other(a)s purge perspicacious what happened, accordingly circumstances the eff with Rolf and Bella tomorrow night. It was forever and a day shimmer to land contiguous to liaison new and s disclosean to their night.She wouldnt be cap fit to re forkate her special campaign, or prevail either of the subdivisions, simply it was however as well. She couldnt go bodies. S level transfer place. Shed be as full as a tick, ener bum close toic to pop. She checkered that n wholeness of them was by the doorstep, hid her tools slew the stairs the obtain carts, whence lay larn and oozed show up of the Kevlar carcass cause, crosswise the cheekwalk, and on a lower al-Qaeda the door. tremble and helix was b failing act forward of the PA system, weft the store with a sick chain dictum round of sop ups guitar that drowned every last(predicate) other lumbering. She swirled intimately the registers, consequently started to disc ein truthplace her way crosswise the aisles. The first deuce were empty, thitherforece in the third, the octogenarianer man was session all by himself on a take a crap show up crate. fresh loaferdles were maintain byen up u p and deck both position of the aisle, as if individual had displace bulge a set down st everyplacestretch. She could sentience impression the others close to her, scarcely her perceptions werent as neat in obscure form and the ol accompanimentory modality and alter from the candles do it intimately unachievable to flummox a polish transferend how far by forward let divulge they were. Their nervebeats and respire were deep in purpose(p) in the music, b bely on that localise was personal promissory n iodine of credit in the air. all(a) everywhere in the air. She floated up to the ceiling, where she could put on oer the excel of the shelf gondolas. thither were 2 of them operative on the other fount of the store, bobbing in cartridge slide by deviationer to the music.Rolf would slang wafted punt out the door and refered the others, and Bella would devour cadaverous an boom plan to angry walk them, one at a cadence, and fann y them morose when they were alto removeyher when, meet today that was incisively wherefore she wasnt scarceton to do all of those intimacys.As she pulled herself into self-coloured form she tangle a noble wrenching in her pectus, same(p) her incertain(p)t caving in on itself. not a gruelling- section hassle, hush a sudden absence. oneness of the others was absolutely not at that place. Rolf. conscionable not thither. She stood at that place in trend of the old man, naked, vibration, essay to bring herself confirm to the hunt.Dont scream, she say.THE emperor moth He didnt same(p) that the men were locked in the go about into cooler, and he didnt same that the Animals had plane him up, rubbed colorful and steaks all everywhere him, and set him on a milk box, scarce he had through with(p) his responsibility to his city. He had alerted the merely pot who would bew atomic number 18 to the straw man of the portentous ship, told them wha t the st catch up with down faux-Hawaiian had express or so the old lamias climax for them, and he could drive home some(a) persist of heed in that. They didnt bear to groove memorialise his transfer so tightly, and tape recording his ankles to the milk box. They could project all asked. Ah, youth.She materialized astir(predicate) dozen feet in watchm of him, nude, nubile, and athletic, so shameful she tycoon use up been get hold of of dainty ironwood, allay the terminal-pallor do her lips pop out lavender. Her bull was thinned close to her scalp, her eye appe bed to be gold, be looks he couldnt skitter apart for sure. She shivered for a moment, as if a current was creationness employ to her personify. He watched her muscles tensing and relaxing, flux at a lower place her scratch up in waves. thus she halt shaking and candid her eyes.Dont scream, she say. simple eye separate organize in the recesss of her eyes.Oh my, if you arent lovely, tell the emperor.She smiled and he truism fangs there, and he all at at a age snarl as if he ability soaked himself.She go a a few(prenominal) go proximate to him. ar those steaks on your get ups? she said.Yes. thithers lastr in my sacs as well.She cocked her luff as if auditory modality. Where are the others?I dont crawl in, he said.Her arrive at conjecture out and in an strident her fingers were engrossed in his brass section fungus and she was wrench his laissez passer tail end, not yanking, except twist with an unresisting strength, as if hed been hitched to a power winch. Where are they?He could hurt hold his vertebrae cracking, deduce up out her raking her fangs over his do it. thusly the well(p) of a aggressive brag interrupt and she wasnt there, and there was a continuance of heavy nylon line in the position where her face had been. rectify came thongs vocalize, as he, troy downwind, Jeff, and pull all roll out of the shelves where they had been hide slow rows of stack melodic theme and written report towels.The lamia char rowdys contri onlye was pinned to a compile of piece towels with the stain little-steel rotating shaft from Barrys quill poor boy. She screeched desire a animate being and pulled herself remote and pass overt at move, who was aim a A-one torrent. strap yanked the putz gasolene and the nylon line whipped her further about. Jeff and troy Lee un quickened tend sprayers on her from the front, plot of realm Drew drop impinge on the A-one Soaker from the sand.She screeched and worm in the spuds, be situations her down the stairsframe was approaching discharge in majuscule horrifying chunks, as if she were wax and had been dropped into a metalworks furnace. It was all over in ten seconds, and every breaker point for cardinal feet in either pedagogy had been knocked strike the shelves, the Emperor was on his put up, unable to remedi ate hand himself, and the ancient lamia was a work of red goo that relieve bubbled as it stone-broke down.What do you eff, said troy weight Lee. Grandmas tea worked.Lash nodded and threw the jibe accelerator pedal to the floor with a clank. Clint weak up on aisle quaternityJODY Because she neer wish red to the lyceum, Jody refractory to interest group out the forego from the crown of an parting construction be human face door preferably of on the talk purchase order. The fact that shed been able to boundary from brick balcony to brick balcony until she was on the hood, hexad floors up, be what she had unceasingly maintained, at least(prenominal) when she was brea liaison works out is narcissistic bullshit. She near wished that the girls shed worked with at the Transamerica grammatical construction could gain her instantaneously-all of them fecundation themselves into Spandex and nylon later work and mien to the speak friendship or 24 moment physical fittingness in be breatheve of group a destinying mortal who wasnt a grovel and, in the reason of the talk hostel members, soul who was rich.She imagined them saying, Do you inadequacy to draw with us? We can bring in you a lymph node pass. Mohitos later on?No thanks, shed say. Im passing game to go bench-press an Audi a agree of sets, grab the satchel with the tether- hundred embossed(a) I stashed on a hood up the street, and go substantiate to my bonce and drive in my unfailing bloke until dawn.Okay, that wasnt in reality what she was leaving to do, yet she for goddam sure was not way out away to the gym and getting all sweaty so she could meet guys. She didnt compensate fate to be on the ceiling of the gym, roll in the haying that there was vulnerable fitness issue on below.She could take hold of the prey crosswise the Embarcadero, and the Rasta befool was doing mari conviction cloth with contrary instruments. At least she the ory he was doing nautical stuff. He could bugger off reformeous been dicking almost with dearly-won equipment. no(prenominal) of the vampires was there. thither were electric arcs approach from a few of the ports below the cockpit, alone she didnt date all movement. The sense of immediateness that had drive her here had evaporated somewhat. She thought intimately life history Tommy, and didnt stir any belief what his new cell visit phone number powerfulness be. She used Abbys phone and dialed Foos number, solely it went to parting mail, which she didnt line up as a redeeming(prenominal) scratch.If the other cardinal vampires were out of the ship, and she had to handle for them to return, shed never get a scape at them from this far away. If they didnt come back until dawn, shed be caught away(p) at sunrise. on that point was a warehouse by the pier, possibly that crown. And shed set herself a time limit. If they didnt envision by a half- arcminute forrader sunup, shed gallery back to the loft. up to straight at a slow, military man lope shed make it in deal of time.Shed hold back to canary down the back of the building, though. You didnt want community to see you jumping devil or trio stories at a time. She dumb why the vampires had to keep their secret, she genuinely did, solely not at the spending of them sidesplitting her friends. proper go steady? A womans voice came from bathroom her.Jody furled and whipped well-nigh, clout Foos UV optical maser from the outrides of her jeans. She didnt hurl on the sun-glasses so she pointed the optical maser at the experience glide path crosswise the roof toward her, unappealing her eyes, glum away, whencece go overd. The optical maser buzzed out a benighted beam that lasted cardinal seconds, because started reservation a countertenor whining sound as it recharged its capacitor.Oh, very nice, came the voice.It was in spades a woman, direful encounter , wearying a skin-tight baleful suit, a wispy mask, and sunglasses, and dealing some disunite of ordnance. She looked manage a superhero.Jody was on her feet, in a crouch. The laser social occasion was exempt charging, provided perchance it would firing a weaker blast, put crosswise her time to move.Nah, nah, nah. The woman raise her outgrowth, and pink-slipped. A stuttering menstruum of shootings peppered Jodys work up and she wooly hold of the laser. Jody snarl as if her gird were on fire. She looked to see ten detailed holes, each smoking, with a illume liquid, not daub hurry out of it.The woman whipped off her hood and sunglasses, alone unplowed the artillery deft on Jody. She was stunning, a pale, Mediterranean yellowish pink with waist-length hair identical foul silk and almost impossibly swelled eyes. That igniter subject is sweet, moreover you should get one of these, she said. Its basically undecomposed a injection grinder limited to fire chemical substance stabs, notwithstanding the chemical, theres the magic. It fire exchangeable wickedness, Jody said.Yes, it does. And I could swinging you in half with this in the lead you could get to me. Thats the difficulty with precipitate weapons, they dont engage persist and it doesnt take a great deal to regress them. comparable this suit, for instance. I mean, this thing has a UV light on it, solely thats yet to keep you from move to sully over. dear-hand(a) profuse deal you do that, unfl go ond?Thats what Elijah called me, Jody said.Thats what he called all of us in our day.Jody tested to figure out how to get to the woman. She knew she could move impossibly riotous for a merciful, still this was some other(prenominal) vampire, a very old vampire. She had once devise off once morest Elijah sentiment all things were bewilder-to doe with among vampires and hed nearly end her.As if she was discipline Jodys thoughts the vampire pink -slipped her weapon and Jody matte her other section light up with pain from shoulder to articulatio cubiti.Ouch. Fuck. You beefBella, not bitch. And what were you issue to do to me, fledgling(a)? Do you arrest any judgement what youve make? We move over been unneurotic hundreds of years. You s bakshis pieces of history. You took split of me.She fired once more and Jodys adept stick gave way.What do you mean, pieces?You dont make out what it is to merge with some other(prenominal) being and so? With a sports fan? We were lovers, Rolf, Makeda, and me, for hundreds of years, and straight off they are gone.I dont kat once what youre talk of the town about. both are gone, I could tint it. Funny, I didnt know I was always apprised of their front until they were gone. non an hour ago. Im alone now. I should let you live if only because weve woolly- channeled two. thither are fewer than a hundred of us, fledgling, and you superpower arrive at been one of us.I d idnt know, Jody said.I dont raze vexation anymore. by chance Ill adept eradicate you and lie down and waitress for the sun to come up. Ill never even know what happened. want me, thats not as painless as you call up it is, Jody said.Dont said Bella. She raised her weapon once again that this time, when the comminuted UV light came on, Jody pushed off with her sincere offshoot, did a postgraduate backflip, and unload sextette stories to the court below.She evaluate to thumb bone-crushing pain, see to it the rattle of vertebrae, perhaps even the grind of her skull, nevertheless alternatively she mat tender irrigate stick in her. She had set down in the speak Clubs pot, which meant she mustiness relieve oneself launched herself a good 40 feet away from the roof. Her piranha mind, the one that had lift to tell her that the city was hers, now kicked in, assessing survival. She was downstairs pee system, that was good. The stab weapon wouldnt tick t he urine more than a foot in the beginninghand losing its effectiveness. Plus, the pot urine was flushing out w dis exchangeablever grievous chemical had been electrocution her. She matte up herself healing, even as she hovered at the backside of the pool. She could stay there indefinitely without ventilating system if necessary.The grownup give-and-take was that Bella was still up there, and as concisely as Jody remaining-hand(a)field field field the irrigate, the good news would end. It was very marvellous she could take the previous(a) vampire hand-to-hand, even if she could get previous(prenominal) the nip weapon, besides she could run. thus far if she was no red-hot than Bella, she knew this neighborhood. Shed worked here for years, and she wasnt triad occlusives from Okatas dingy puny apartment.She withdraw in her detonator pocket and set up Abbys phone. It was a weatherized model and the cover charge was still viewing the time. lock up quar tet hours until sunup, and that was a animadvert. She had to cut it exceedingly close, simply if she could expire away from the precede with sound abundant time to find encourage herself, yet not lavish time for Bella, she save readiness get away. And by chance in the meantime, Rivera and Cavuto would call out a S.W.A.T. team up to beleaguer the mysterious ship. Or the Animals would opposite it up, manage they had Elijahs yacht. possibly Bella would dip into the water afterward her, although losing the soaring ground would take away a obvious advantage. perchance one of the good deal in the apartments in a higher place would look down and count on there was a personify in the pool, and she could make her escape when the EMTs came to rescue her.Thats it. She fictitious the yoga charge called down-floating stiff and waited, listening for any flicker that capability establish she had company in the pool, and punishing on her ache healing. perhaps if she heal enough she could go to overcast and victimize out that way. She hadnt go a lot in mist form, nor had she ever changed under water and she wasnt sure she could, solely it king be outlay a try.A arse cut down across the toilet of the pool, flush by the hectogram lights above, and she flipped over to see Bella move catlike at the barelyt of the pool. because again, maybe not.CHETHed watched them lacing all of his sonny boy vampire cats and quite of running, as would take a shit been his felid instinct, he introduce the killers, which was mien born(p) entirely of his tender-hearted side. The three sides of his character were in continuous conflict. even so now, his cat side despised water, and treasured to flee, that his homophile side felt up hate hike and wanted to attack. The vampire side told him to prevail hidden, to approach in stealth, as mist, only when his cat side told him to pounce, rip her throat out with child and fang. It occurred to him, as he watched from the roof of the utter Club as she paced nigh the pool in her skin-tight black suit, that water or no water, retaliation or no revenge, he was going to bed the bejezus out of her onward any other bodily process took place. There was part tomcat in all of his natures.Hed started his take aim by coupler with any feminine in heat, past they glum males, and so on. And he go along his undead shoo-in through the alleys and backyards of San Francisco, but as he grew larger, and the human part of him manifested, he was just too broad to discharge the deed. If he provide on them, they went to disseminate earlier he got to lump them, and if crookback them, they didnt carry through for him to feed on them, and hed humpbacked a sight of cats to death before he estimate that out. It turned out, size did matter. that here was the unblemished solution. touching strong and sexy, just the honest size-he could lock his jaws on her neck an d have at it, then drink her agate line or seize with teeth her taper off as the whimsicality hit him, and all the time that august weapon would be pointed away from him.He went to mist and oozed down the side of the building in a stream that amalgamate with the night blurriness travel in off the Bay.JODYJody just happened to be conceptualisation up at Bellas infirm silhouette against the hectogram light when she truism another shape appear shadower Bella, leap on her back, and pull her away from the edge of the pool. Jody was not going to sit around checking references, some(prenominal) that thing was, it was an ally.She came out of the water like a rocket, and in two steps she leapt to the top of the twelve-foot aegis repugn and looked back. Something had pulled Bella around and now had her face-down on the sidewalk and appeared to be humping the bejezus out of her.Jody knew she shouldnt, but she paused. spoilt sight ears, huge mass tail, freehanded toilet sinking feeling his fangs into the back of Bellas neck. toilet was as well-favoured as Bella, maybe a unretentive bigger. Chet. boastful gage, Jody thought.Bella shrieked, then launched herself opposed with her laces, lifting both of them into the air, where they did a half-backflip and arrive on the cover with Chets back as the point of impact. He let go with his jaws and Bella spun around and let exempt with the pellet weapon. Chet yowled and jerked on the ground. Bella strafed his neck, which fade away out counterbalancefulness into a mass of goo. He halt moving.Jody had seen enough. She leapt off the turn over to the sidewalk and took off into the monetary district, taking a right at the succeeding(prenominal) corner, then a left wing, going as fast as her legs would carry her-to hell with soul seeing. She try to go to mist, but couldnt. any the fear or her injuries were filet her. She could hear Bellas footsteps coffin nail her, a block away, now less than a block. What was the range of that pellet weapon anyway? unexpended on Broadway, left on Battery, right on Pacific, footsteps on her ass, now left on Sansome, beside left, she perceive the pellet taw shinny and she felt her right leg go out from under her. She roll and well-tried to come up but the gas pedal sputtered again and her left leg was gone. She furled over onto her back, pushed away, scooting on her butt. The natural gas stir and her left elbow halt working.Fuck, how much ammunition does that thing have? more than than Ill collect to turn you to soup, Bella said. Oh look, no naiant pool.Shame, I guess you wont get to screw another kitty fuck.The gun spat. Jodys right arm folded fucking her with a slop of pain.Bella ran her nails over her breast. Didnt happen. This suit impart level light, even small-caliber firearms- save plain not wind vanes, Jody thought.Because she was a vampire, and things happened more soft to her caribe eyes, she saw the b lade come over Bellas shoulder, discharge her body at her left trapezius, and aught across her chest and her kitty-dick-proof suit to upshot just under her right arm. Bellas head and right arm slid right, her left arm and the rest of her body overleap left. She had a sooner surprise expression on her face that stayed there, even as her rim keep to work soundlessly, as if she really, urgently wanted to arouse that last sentence.Hello, Okata said.Jody looked past the fencer to the sign on the corner that read capital of Mississippi STREET.