Vampire Romance Series - Coffee And Vampires 1-7 (Vampire Romance Bundle) by S L Hartley Read Free Book Online

soon. As for a place to sleep, well! She smiled a bit to herself. Let’s see how this date goes.
    Nicholas had brought with him a large canvas bag to hold their smaller purchases, and immediately volunteered himself as a carrier.
    “ I’m a lot stronger than any human,” he said casually as they walked into the first shop. “It wouldn’t make sense for you to struggle when I’m here.”
    Page carefully chose out some lightly-used aluminum pots and pans that looked like they’d last a good while. Nicholas managed to locate an almost complete set of matched plates and bowls on one of the top shelves of the packed shop. Even better, when they went to check out he greeted the cashier by name and immediately another ten percent somehow slipped out of the total.
    “ Do you know everyone out here?” Page asked in an undertone as they left the shop.
    “ Just about,” Nicholas said. “I keep a lot of folks around here, um. . .” he searched for words for a few moments. “Supplied, if you catch my drift. The average Wal-Mart doesn’t stock what we need.”
    Of course , Page reasoned silently. He takes blood home from the hospital. It was certainly better than leaving the vampires to hunt for themselves.
    The two of them found a few more dishes and even a working coffeepot in the next store, and ultimately even found a slightly battered but still usable wooden bed frame in the back corner. Nicholas and a clerk made short work of dismantling it, the clerk making such light work of detaching the heavy pieces that Page immediately assumed he was a vampire, too. They stacked the pieces neatly and, ignoring Page’s offer to help, Nicholas tossed the loaded canvas bag over one shoulder and picked up the entire stack.
    He maneuvered easily back out the door as Page paid, and she hastened to follow him back to the apartment. The stairs provided a momentary difficulty, but Nicholas was able to sidle sideways up them without dropping anything. Wordlessly, he began to re-assemble the bed frame in the middle of her new bedroom.
    “ Thank you,” Page said a little awkwardly, watching him. In a few places, she could clearly see nails that had been pulled straight out of their places. Nicholas deftly knocked the wood back together with his bare hands, occasionally steadying a piece with a few dabs of glue from a tube he’d pulled from his pocket.
    “ Normally I’d thank someone who did all this for me by treating him to dinner,” Page said as Nicholas finished piecing the bed frame.
    Nicholas laughed ruefully. “Of course, I don’t eat. I suppose it’s too late to find you a mattress?”
    Page shrugged. “It’s well after six. I’ll look around tomorrow.”
    “ Damn,” Nicholas said. “I’d lost track of time. I’m sorry.”
    Page shook her head, rejecting his apology. “Can I at least buy you coffee somewhere?”
    Nicholas inclined his head to one side, thinking deeply for a few moments. “I know another place around here, and you should know a few other places to go besides Armand’s.”
    The other place turned out to be a fifties’ style diner with passably decent coffee and very good burgers. Page was too hungry to feel self-conscious about eating in front of Nicholas but still tried to eat daintily as he drained what must have been a pot and a half of black coffee.
    As she finished her meal, Nicholas grew thoughtful. “I can’t imagine that Armand would object to putting you up for one last night.”
    Page made a noncommittal noise. “He wouldn’t, but I would, a bit. He’s done so much already. As have you,” she added smoothly. She reached out under the table with one leg, gently brushing Nicholas’s ankle with her foot. “I’m sure we can figure out something else.”
    Nicholas blanched. “Page, it’s not that I don’t want you, but. . . .” he trailed off uncertainly.
    Page raised her eyebrows. “I just meant maybe I could crash on your couch or something.” She smiled wickedly, enjoying