Page 107 of Suck This

EPILOGUE

I like long naps and I cannot lie.

-Coffee Cup

ACADIA

“It’s nice to finally meet you.” I held my hand out to shake it.

Adelaide took it, grinning wildly at me. When she arrived, I had no clue, but now that she was here, I was relying on her to get this figured out.

Con being here among all of this was just waiting for trouble.

“It’s nice to finally meet Con’s heartbeat,” Adelaide said smoothly.

I blushed.

“Uhhh, thanks,” I stammered. “Do you have any ideas on what to do here?”

Adelaide’s eyes were almost violet in color, and she looked nothing like her brother.

Where Fox was tall, dark, handsome, and foreboding, Adelaide was an almost white blonde with skin the color of milk, eyes the color of a rare gem, and a constant smile on her face.

“I have lots of plans, yes,” she said. “But the first one is getting Con out of there before he kills everyone inside.”

“I tried to use my authority to get them out, but I was voted out in the emergency meeting as being biased and unwilling to stand on the side of the law,” Corbin said glumly. “The man that took my place is a complete imbecile and doesn’t deserve to be sitting on my chair, let alone taking up a mantle of power that protects this city from little shitheads like him.”

“It was because of who his mommy is,” Nash grunted. “Not to mention that Bradford is his brother.”

“Like that’s not suspicious,” I grumbled. “Did they forget that he used to work on the sides of the vampires?”

Nash looked at me. “He hasn’t taken a case for any of the vampires,” he corrected. “I thought it odd at the time, but he only helped me work out the case. He never helped me try them. On his end, he looked like he was working with me, but only to gather information rather than actually defending the vampire race.”

I growled under my breath.

“They have no evidence to hold him, seeing as you’re right here,” Adelaide butted in. “What I’m going to get you to do is file a grievance.”

And that was how I’d ended up in the middle of a police station that I used to work at only a few short days ago, yelling at the top of my lungs.

“I’m not a vampire!” I screamed. “I’m okay. I can walk in the day.”

A little white lie. I could do anything that I used to do. I was only harder to kill, apparently.

I still had a lot to learn about my new existence, but I knew that I wasn’t handicapped in any way. I wasn’t evil like a lot of the uninformed citizens were thinking. Hell, I was the same old me but with a kick!

Thirty whirlwind minutes later, I was being carted inside by a very enraged vampire, who was none too happy to have almost every person in the PD that I had once called a friend accuse me of being evil.

“Con,” I whispered worriedly. “It’s okay.”

“Is not,” he disagreed.

He walked straight into his office and shut the door.

“Feed,” Con ordered, dropping me down onto his desk and shoving my face into his neck.

I bit him, but didn’t break the skin, then pushed him away for all that I was worth.

The moment he was far enough away from me, I flipped him off again.