Bricks and Murder by Ken Bebelle EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Ken Bebelle
- Language: English
- Genre: Vampire Suspense
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THE DOJO
The muggy summer heat sat thick and heavy in the air and sweat
drenched the back of my shirt as I fought in the courtyard. It didn’t
help that my opponent was my sensei, Kotori the Fox, and that she
was three times faster than I was. Every time she smacked me with her staff
I would have a bruise there for days.
And yet, I wouldn’t trade a second of it. The thwack of bamboo bo
staffs striking against each other, the twist of bodies and grunts of exertion
felt like home.
When I’d been a kid in Boston, I’d played a lot of basketball and there
was something about the squeak of shoes on the gym floor and the swish of
the net and the thump of basketballs that always sounded right. Now I was a
Slayer initiate in a city dripping with vampires and shifters and fae and the
sounds of fighting, in or out of the Dojo, was the soundtrack that made me
feel good. Made me feel strong.
And I needed that. Being a Slayer made me a target. I didn’t carry the
Midnight Rose yet but I’d earned my ink, exsanguinating my first vampire
last month. My inking ceremony was tonight and I needed to burn off my
nervous energy. Kotori had been more than willing to help.
Earning the Midnight Rose was why I joined the Slayers, part of my
plan to save my mom from further decline. The Rose was the only way I
knew to transport vampire blood across the Veil. Once I had it, my mom
would be saved.
But I had been kidding myself. I’d almost washed out of the Trials on
my way to becoming a Slayer initiate and only then did I face the truth–that
I’d been doing it all along to live up to my dad’s ideals. To step into his
shoes and be as great, if not greater than Gabriel Lim, the Breaker of
Seattle.
I still wanted that, but now it was tempered by something else–the
loyalty I felt to my fellow Slayers. Even my sensei who was currently
beating me with a stick.
Kotori’s staff found my shin with a crack. I grunted at the pain and
danced back a step. She moved smoothly into the opening, a swirling mass
of brilliant red leather, the other end of her staff coming around at
somewhere in the vicinity of the speed of sound. It didn’t matter that I was a
full head taller than Kotori, the petite woman could always get inside my
longer reach.
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