Page 26 of Suck This

CHAPTER 8

It’s not every day you see a woman’s ass pressed up against the camera and you don’t have to pay for it.

-Constantine as he watches Acadia scale his fence

CONSTANTINE

My eyes snapped open as I had the feeling that someone was where they shouldn’t be.

Somethingwasn’t right.

An internal alarm went off in my head, and I rose silently from my bed, walking through the near darkness to the bedroom door and waited.

It didn’t take long.

A knock sounded, and I opened the door to find my human personal assistant, the man that did all my daytime errands and also kept an eye on my day-to-day life for me, standing there with his hand ready to knock.

“Sorry to interrupt your sleep,” Chen said. “But there’s a visitor on the northwest lawn entrance.”

“Who?” I asked.

He already knew who. Hell, he would’ve known who it was the moment the visitor crossed onto our territory six miles before the northwest entrance.

“A woman,” he answered. “And since she’s of the same description as the woman that you saved, I felt it prudent to allow her to get this far.”

A growl rose in my voice.

“A good decision on your part,” I said roughly. “Let her in.”

Chen nodded, then left without another word.

I went to the bathroom and used the facilities before using the toiletries that never seemed to run out to get rid of the stench of fear that still clung to my skin from a nightmare that I’d been having before being awoken by the intruder.

I’d just finished when another knock sounded.

“Sir,” Chen said through the door. “I was about to let her in when she left.”

“Where did she go?” I asked as I slipped into a pair of running shorts.

“To the graveyard.”

My eyes closed on their own volition, and I sighed.

“Curious woman,” I grumbled. “I’ll handle it, Chen. Thank you.”

Chen left without another word, and I walked out of the security of my bedroom, mentally locking and barring it as I left.

No matter how much I trusted Chen, I knew that he could still be used against me if another vampire spent enough time on him. Not that Chen would ever betray me on purpose, but that didn’t mean that my enemies wouldn’t try.

They’d done it before.

Pushing outside on the last rays of the setting sun, I walked across my perfectly manicured lawn—one that got mowed every single Wednesday at three—and headed to the northwest gate that would lead to the cemetery.

The same cemetery that held my wife, child, mother, father, sister, and multiple cousins. Grandparents. Great-grandparents.

The property I was living on had been in my late mother’s family for centuries, and I’d outlived them all.

The cemetery was special to me—something that was very personal and not something I wished to share with everyone.