Dead Certain (Eve Benson: Vampire Book 3) by P. S. Power Read Free Book Online

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and see to scouting the area first. Do not engage, unless it becomes needful.
If that happens, execute them all. Do you understand? This is a great honor. One that I hadn’t thought you would ever be allowed. I’m very proud of
you.”
    Then he turned and walked away,
getting both of them to follow along. Nikki, who was a decently old Vampire,
about the same age as Lenore, most likely, started to whine a bit, almost
instantly. Like she hadn’t even heard the part about it being a great honor?
Even better, that Bey, her maker, a being that was practically her father, was proud of her?
    No, that didn’t seem to be the
case. Instead she kind of seemed like a wimp, as they covered the slightly
sparkling red brick of the main walkway, heading back toward Yoghurt World.
    “I can’t. I have things to do
here. Besides, how are we getting there? I don’t really like long ocean voyages
that much, if it’s all the same. I get seasick.” She plodded along, grumpily,
which did seem pretty realistic if it was all about pretending to be a
Human. For a Vampire talking to The Bey, it was practically suicidal. She had
things to do? More important than putting down a freaking rebellion, and saving
innocent people from almost certain death? Not that anyone had mentioned that,
but any fight Vampires had planned would end up getting innocent people killed,
wouldn’t it?
    Bey gave her a tolerant smile,
and clapped, happily.
    “Wonderful, Nicole, you have
already discovered the plan! You shall run the distance, except for the smallest
of journeys by water craft. You have two days to make the trip, and then two to
get the lay of the conditions there. I trust that will be enough time?” He was
being willfully mean about it, acting so happy and like it was an easy thing to
do.
    “Two days? No one can do that? It
must be six thousand miles! We won’t have enough night to make it.”
    Eve took over then, moving a
little faster.
    “So we go in during the day, too.
Really, we can do it in two major legs. The first to the coast, in Alaska, then
the rest of the trip, once we get across the ocean. That should only take about
ten hours, even if we run slow. You have super speed, and so do I.” She
looked at Bey, and then shrugged. “I get that we’ll need to be careful on the
ground over there. Hiding, and all that, while we travel. No one has officially
announced that other countries have Vampires, yet. We need to keep that secret
for them, until they’re ready. Still, other than being boring and hurting, it
won’t be an issue. We can go eat now, so that you’ll have fresh links for it. Think
of it as a road trip?” Eve hoped that Nicole would leave it at that, but didn’t
really count on it happening.
    She was psychic, apparently, on
top of her other powers it seemed, since the woman managed to complain the
whole freaking time they were getting ready.
    Eve ignored it, trying not to
seem like she was about to tear into the local Proctor physically. That she was
actually being edged toward that, well, it was a sign of her own weakness,
wasn’t it? She had to be stronger than that, and controlling herself was a big
portion of what she needed to be doing. While it might be tempting to give in
to her anger, she knew that if she did, people would die. Ones that shouldn’t.
    Thankfully, they were able to
start shortly after that, Lenore having given them a nice and brightly colored
printed map. It had the complete route marked out, along with instructions on
how to find the right house once they got into place. Otherwise they’d probably
end up lost and wandering around, until they were killed for their nifty
running shoes.
    She had on those, at least. Nikki
had boots. It wouldn’t really matter, except that they were going to end up
being ruined by the distances traveled. Her shoes would too, but they’d only
cost about twenty bucks at Wal-Mart. The boots on her new companion’s feet
looked expensive, and had cool buckles on the