Taken By The Vampire King by Roxie Ray, LINDSEY DEVIN EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Leia
The light above me flickered and I glanced toward the ceiling, squinting at
it like I could diagnose the issue from a mere irritated gaze and willpower
alone. But we were lucky the lights were still on at all, with the stack of red
bills clamoring for my attention on my desk, and I sighed as I leaned over
the table to swipe my rag over the worn wood.
“Quiet tonight, cher.” Harry Allard’s soft voice broke the silence, and I
stiffened, pausing my movement for just a fraction of a moment.
I shrugged, trying to appear casual. “Guess that’s what I get for having
ancestors who missed the memo on the direction Baton Rouge would
expand in.” We weren’t exactly on the tourist trail of town, and The Pour
House stayed quiet more nights than not. Passing trade had all but been
reduced to an army of frogs and too many mosquitoes.
Pierre, Harry’s brother, chuckled. “The chicken wings were good
tonight, though.” He patted his slightly rounded belly, a smile of
contentment softening his craggy features.
Pierre wore his ex-police years in the lines and wrinkles of his face like
a badge of honor, but he was soft when it came to me—both brothers were,
the uncles I’d never had—and Pierre probably contributed the majority of
my profits on nights when I served wings.
I nodded, already automatically doing the mental calculations to work
out when those would be on the menu again. Takings had probably been
good enough to allow more food to be on offer tomorrow. It was always a
tussle over paying a bill and trying to earn more money. Speculating to
accumulate… But the only thing I fucking seemed to accumulate was more
of Dad’s gambling debt.
“One day,” I said, “life will be better, and I’ll have the money to pay all
the bills when they need paying, right?” I grinned in the direction of the
brothers, their once blond hair now shining more gray under my dim lights.
They were my most loyal regular customers. Always in the same corner
like a pair of personal bodyguards. That they were both ex-police definitely
helped keep trouble away from my place, too. Their tattoos were as
intimidating as their quiet presence for the wrong people, that was for sure.
Well, maybe they couldn’t keep the kind of trouble that answered to the
name of Dad at bay, but not many others tried anything.
Harry nodded. “Hope so, cher.” He cleared his throat and shifted in the
booth, his bulky frame not quite as much muscle now as it must have been
in his youth. “How are things going with…all that?”
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