How to Elude a Vampire (VRC Vampire Related Crimes #2) - Alice Winters Page 0,8
have something lovely to look at in the morning. Isn’t that right, Artie? Just seeing your honey-brown eyes and fucked-up hair makes my day brighter,” Finn says as he reaches over to the dog. I catch his hand first and make sure he’s looking as I glare at him. “Artie, help me! There’s a grumpy vampy who looks prepared to eat me.”
“I miss the good old days when it was just me all alone, living alone, completely alone. I felt… powerful and could brood all day long. It was nice.”
He grins at me. “Nah, you’d miss me so much. You like being weighed down by my humanness. You secretly love it.”
“Do I?” I ask, even though I’m squeezing him tightly, prepared to not let go. We don’t really have to go to work, right? We could just sit here, and I could continue to hug him to me.
I run my hand down his bare back to his ass cheek and squeeze it tightly.
Yes, this definitely has to be better than work.
My phone rings, like someone has realized that I was considering the outcome of mauling Finn before work. I groan as I grab it, but I make sure to keep Finn locked down so he can’t run.
When I see that it’s from our boss, Brooks, I accept the call. “This is Church.”
“Church, we have a bit of a situation. There is a suspected body in the South Fork River. There’s suspicion that a vampire was involved, so the VRC will assist until we are positive. Can you head straight there?”
“Of course,” I say.
“I’m assuming you might see Finn between now and then and can relay the information?” he says, sounding sarcastic. He thought us being in a relationship was a bad idea when the department frowns on relationships inside the same units. But thankfully, he hasn’t spread it around, and the people that do know don’t seem to mind because they will all do anything for Finn for some extremely weird reason.
“Maybe he’s around here somewhere. He’s small enough that I usually stick him in the little cupboard under the stairs,” I say.
Finn viciously pinches my nipple. “I can hear you.”
“Why he even likes you is the real question,” Brooks says.
“Him? I’m the complete package,” I say.
Finn gasps and I realize with horror what I’ve done. “You’re… You’re saying because I don’t have an arm and a leg that I’m not complete?”
“Don’t you dare,” I growl.
“Wow, that’s low,” Brooks says, jumping right on board like the asshole he is.
I glare at Finn. “Don’t.”
He wipes away a fake tear.
“No! You’re not allowed to be dramatic! It’s not cute!”
“Now you don’t think I’m cute!” He pushes away from me, but I grab him and pull him back before kissing his cheek. “I think you’re adorable.”
Brooks sighs. “I don’t want to hear any of this. Meet your team at the location in fifteen.”
“Got it,” I say and hang up. “Did you hear all that?”
“I did,” he says as he pushes past Artemus to grab his prostheses. He doesn’t like me paying him any attention while he’s putting them on since he’s still foolishly worried I’ll look at him differently or some other nonsense. I wish he would understand that I love him and his body the way it is. But I think only time will fix that and I’m willing to give him all the time he needs. That or maybe I’ll just try shaking some sense into him someday. I swear humans are the most stubborn creatures alive.
I get dressed and head into the bathroom to finish up getting ready. Since I get done first, I grab him some stuff from the kitchen for the drive over.
“A body’s not good,” Finn says as he comes out of the back. “Things have been relatively quiet and now a body.”
“There’s a possibility it wasn’t a body or, if it is a body, someone might have fallen in and drowned. With the recent rain and wind, it’s not farfetched that they could slip into the water and drown.”
He still doesn’t look certain but nods anyway.
I drive so Finn can eat a granola bar. Since I’m a true vampire, I can eat human food, which is impossible for regular vampires. I don’t require it, but I find that it does make me healthier to add human food into my diet periodically, though I can’t live only on human food.
Once we get to the point of interest, I park next to a VRC police car. They were