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Stake That (Blood Coven Vampire #2)(10)
Author: Mari Mancusi

Something inside of me aches a bit. You know, it’s so not fair that this is Sunny’s life and not mine. I did everything I was supposed to and now she’s reaping all the rewards. I should have the riches, the powers, the gothed-out limo. The hot blood mate.

Speaking of, Magnus is sitting beside Sunny, all decked out in Armani as usual. I can see why she digs the guy. He looks just like Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Carribean. Long black hair, pulled back, deep soulful eyes. (Though that might just be a trick of the light seeing as the guy has no soul. . . .)

I turn to my side and sigh when I see Jareth, the vamp from the Blood Bar, sitting next to me. Still dressed in his Goth best, a serious frown on his otherwise delish face. I sigh again. Great. He obviously sold me out. Sunny’s going to be sooo pissed I didn’t tell her the 411 about the whole slayer thing before heading out.

“What’s going on, Rayne?” Sunny demands. Dressed in flip-flops, jeans, and tank top, she looks so out of place in the elegant, Gothic vampire limo. Annoys me to no end the fact that she now belongs here more than I do, let me tell you. At least they didn’t fit her with a crown or something. Though I guess technically she’s not Magnus’s queen unless they get married, right? Can vampires even get married? I can’t remember if that was covered in the training. I guess if they did it’d be more country club than church. . . .

Sorry. Digressing. I know.

“Uh, what do you mean?” I ask, not quite sure why I’m even attempting the innocent routine. There’s no way she doesn’t know.

“Jareth says he saw you down at the Blood Bar,” Magnus clarifies. He has a sexy English accent, too. According to Sunny he was once a knight in shining armor for King Arthur in Camelot. I wonder if Jareth was as well. Not that I care.

“He assumed you were me,” Sunny adds.

“Hm. I wonder why,” I say sarcastically, still mad at him for scaring me so badly back at the bar. “Oh, wait. Could it be that he didn’t shut up long enough to listen to one word I had to say? Could it be that he was too much in a hurry to run and go crying to Magnus before I even had a chance to explain?” I narrow my eyes and shoot daggers at Jareth. Jerk-off. Getting me in trouble with the vamps. So help me if this interferes with my position on the blood mate waiting list. “Thanks, dude, for selling me down the river. Two seconds and we could have cleared this whole thing up. But no. You had to assume. And you know what assuming does, don’t you?” I elbow the vampire in the ribs. “Makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘you’ and ‘me.’ Or however that stupid phrase goes.”

“I wouldn’t mind you turning into an ass,” Jareth growls in his throaty voice. “Then at least you couldn’t speak.”

“Oh yeah?” I cry, my blood boiling at this point. I’m, like, this close to smacking the guy upside the head. Or whipping out my stake, even. That’d show him. No one should be able to talk to me like that and live. “Well . . . then I could, um, bray, and I bet that would be even more annoying.”

“I’d take my chances.”

“Jareth! Rayne!” Magnus scolds. “This childish bickering is not helping us get to the bottom of this.”

“You’re right,” I agree. Then when Magnus isn’t looking I stick my tongue out at Jareth. He scowls back at me. OMG, what a loser, right? And that “ass” comment was completely uncalled for. Especially since back at the Blood Bar he wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise while he ranted and raved and pulled out his hair. I take everything back about him being a sexy guy I’d want to have vampire babies with.

“Why were you at the Blood Bar, Rayne?” Sunny asks, her voice all concerned and big sister like. Technically though, I’m the older one. By seven whole minutes. Just cause she’s dating some guy who’s, like, a thousand years old doesn’t mean suddenly she’s more wise and mature. “And that thing in your blog? About being a vampire slayer? Was that just a joke? Cause if that was a joke, it wasn’t very funny.”

Oh, I see. NOW she reads my blog. Now that she’s back to being a human and it makes no difference whatsoever. I begged her to read the thing when she was about to turn vampire. As you know, it has a ton of important info about the process. But no! She had better things to do. Like make out with her cheeseball prom date Jake Wilder.

I swallow hard. Explanation time.

“It’s not a joke. Your drama coach, Mr. Teifert, is really vice prez of Slayer Inc. And he’s tagged me as the next slayer.” I lean back in my seat, crossing my left leg over my right, somewhat enjoying the shocked looks on everyone’s faces. Especially Jareth’s. Heh. I bet he wishes he didn’t make enemies with me now. Now that he knows how dangerous I can be. One wrong move and BAM! Stake that!

“Why would he pick you?” Sunny asks, the first to recover her voice.

I shrug. “I don’t know. He was all saying it’s my destiny or something.”

“Can’t you just refuse?”

“That’s the messed up part,” I admit. “He claims he’s put some nanovirus in my bloodstream that will be activated if I refuse to perform my slayerly duties. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I don’t want to take any chances, you know?”

“Nano what?” Sunny asks, scrunching up her freckled nose. “That’s crazy. He’s got to be pulling your leg. Maybe he overheard us talking and . . .”

   
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