Mercy of These Bones

Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life. Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead. Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back. Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe Mathias’s warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias’s nocturnal activities, and passions are flaring high. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.

Vivien Dean · Urban

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98 Chs

Chapter 11

He refused to let her fall prey to Mathias. And he deliberately ignored the stab of jealousy that she hadn’t looked at Edmund in such a sexual way since they’d first met.

Following Mathias into Birdsong had been simple, his attention diverted from Edmund’s approach. But now, with him pinned to the wall, the familiar lines of his body squirming in delicious and wrongful ways, Edmund’s darker emotions returned, his fangs elongating in spite of his better judgment, his grip contracting until he thought he might actually break something in the smaller vampire.

“Maybe you were the one I was looking for all along.”

The faint mockery in Mathias’ tone turned back the years, but if he thought it would soften Edmund’s control, he was sorely mistaken. With a violent shove, Edmund pushed him along the wall to the storeroom, not letting go even after he’d kicked the door shut behind them.

“What the hell are you doing here?” he snarled in Mathias’ ear.

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