Deceptive Changes: Kat LaMond Book 1 by R A Baker Read Free Book Online Page A

back into bed.  Todd picked up the phone and called Charles.  The time was set for two hours. 
    “Will there be an audience when we kill them?”
    “No, that was taken care of the other day.  This will just be us and Charles.”  I nodded and lay back against their warmth.  Todd nibbled at my neck. 
    I sighed out, “Not again?”
    “Oh, yeah, Kat,” he murmured against my throat.  I shuddered as he bit my neck, not as gently as it should have but it felt damn good. 
    They all took turns bringing me over and over and I returned the favor. 
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    After we finished and took showers, we dressed in jeans and t-shirts.  I kissed each of them and we headed out in Todd’s SUV.
    We made it to a big house, a dark and decrepit house, that we used as a dungeon.  The grounds were made up of weeds, dry grass, and cracked paver stones leading up to the rickety porch.  The door was weathered and looked broken, but when Todd turned the knob, the door opened on well oiled hinges.
    We walked into the house, followed Todd down three flights of stairs, and into a room where two vampires were chained and drugged.  I didn’t think I could just kill them.  I wasn’t an assassin by any means and this smacked of assassination.
    “Todd, I don’t…” He shushed me with a hand. 
    We walked up to the vampires.  Charles took the IV’s out and rather quickly the vampires regained consciousness.  I looked at them.  They were ordinary looking.
    They looked at each of us and smirked.  “Do you want to die?” I asked curiously.
    “No, slayer.  We don’t want to die but we did kill Todd’s parents.”  I noticed that they used his name instead of title.  “We have no reason to believe that he will let us go for this transgression.”
    “You’re right, I won’t,” Todd said, his jaw set. I could tell that he didn’t want to do this but had to.  He took a long, curved blade from his hip and sliced off the vampire’s head.  It rolled near me.  I grimaced at the sight. 
    The other vampire cowered in the bed and pleaded for his life.  “I won’t give you forgiveness but I will kill you quickly,” he said softly, and chopped that one’s head off, too, then turned to look at me.  I could see the pain it caused him and I wanted to hug and kiss that pain away but I stayed where I was. 
    “Why did you need me to be here, Todd?” I asked.
    “In case things got wonky.  Outside of that, I really didn’t need any of you here.”  He handed the blade to Charles and walked out of the room. 
    I grabbed the heads, with a lot of grimacing and bluck sounds, and walked out of the room as well, dripping blood along the concrete flooring.  Trace and Erick grabbed the bodies.  I walked up to where Todd had started a bonfire.  We tossed the heads and bodies into the fire and watched until they were nothing more than ash.
    We spread the ashes around and drove home.  That was anti-climactic.  I had thought that I would be killing them but nope, Todd had wanted to do it himself.  I guess it was only right since they did kill his parents. 
    “When is your parents’ funeral?” I asked softly.
    “It’s set for three days from now.  The cops will release the body in a day or so and then I’ll bury them.”
    “Not alone, you won’t.”  He grabbed my hand and squeezed.
    We dropped off the car with valet and went back up to the apartment.  Charles took his leave as soon as we stepped off the elevator. 
    I wasn’t as tired as I thought I would be but I knew I had to rest for at least a couple hours being that I needed to be at work in about three hours.  “Guys, I’m going to bed.  I have to be up in a few hours.”  I walked into the bedroom and stripped out of my jeans and t-shirt.  I put on warm pajamas and slid under the covers. 
    I was just about asleep when three bodies crawled on the bed with me.  Erick, I could tell by his hair, lifted the