Dead and Everything (Eve Benson: Vampire Book 2) Read Online Free

been a drunk back then, but had managed
to move up in the force with no real trouble even given that. There had just
been no room for her in his life. He’d been all about nailing chicks, and
probably having kids that he didn’t even know about. That he’d been married to
her mother once was the only reason that Eve knew he existed. She had his last
name. Not that he’d hidden from her really, but she hadn’t known him when she
was little. Finias was Zack’s grandfather, but the same kind of thing applied
really. A lot of evil shit had happened to him, and The Mind Taker hadn’t
stepped in to help him, until it was too late.
    Darla
took a breath, a thing that Eve wouldn’t have heard as a Human. Super powers
were so cool.
    “I’ll
let you get to that, then. Remember, don’t accept any deals or bargains. He
isn’t Keels , but he’s also not a slouch that way. I’ll get with you in
the next day or two? Tell Zack I said that he was being a coward.”
    She
would, but later, when they were alone.
    “Love
you. Talk later.” Then Eve hung up first. There were too many people listening,
and all of them were too worked up for her to keep giving Darla a chance to
mess her up by saying the wrong thing.
    Everyone
was staring at her already.
    Probably
because she’d just told a Greater Demon she loved her.
    She
grinned as she hung up the phone.
    “It’s
just a turn of phrase. Freaking homophobes.”
    For some
reason no one laughed.

Chapter two
     
    She loaded
Zack down with treats in a cardboard carrier, since he needed to eat a lot, and
then made up some for Calley and her Shifter buddies. Then she looked up at
Lars, who was still walking around looking like he normally did. White and
chalky, with an impressive double row of fangs. His hair was a bit darker than
most Manthori’s, which probably meant something.
    Like
he’d been black before his change, hundreds of years before?
    Normally
he used compulsion to pass though, looking like a rather tall, white, gamer
geek. The role playing kind that met up with other people in the park to
pretend to be things they weren’t. Lot of different types of beings did that in
their area. Mainly because it let them pretend to be something other than they
were. Human. That was probably going to end now. It was kind of obvious, wasn’t
it?
    Then
again, they could just say fuck it and go on, couldn’t they? One guy, even a
politician, showing that he was different, or even had powers, wasn’t going to
make everyone suddenly believe.
    She
smiled a lot for the rest of the night, tried to call Finias, The Mind Stealer,
and left a message, since he was both busy, and savvy enough to use voice mail,
no matter how ancient he really was.
    The
lights inside the shop stayed the same, too bright, for the entire time, and
neither Edom or Lenore came in. It wasn’t like they were asleep, so it probably
meant they either hadn’t heard about the news, or they realized that fretting
over it in the middle of the night wasn’t going to make any difference at all.
Bey and Zack left, and while she ended up doing a lot of cleaning around
people, most of the others eventually realized that they just didn’t know
enough, and that at present there was no vast plan to hunker down and get ready
to fight.
    Finally,
they all left, a few more asking to be placed on the watch map, just in case.
    Eve
marked things out carefully, but that was all. It honestly wasn’t going to come
up, she didn’t think. Even if things happened, it would take time and going
after the undead was a bigger risk than anyone would want to really take.
    So, when
morning came, Linda the well dressed, curly haired, and tiny Vampire came back,
just about the time that Lenore came in. They both seemed pleased enough to see
each other, or were at least willing to fake being nice to keep the peace.
Either thing was going to work out well enough, as far as Eve was concerned.
    Lenore
seemed baffled though.
    “To what
do we owe the