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Prologue
Kimberly
Nothing says “fuck you” like a vampire standing with his foot on your throat.
The creature pressed harder, digging the toe of his boot into my skin. It hurt, but I wasn’t about to let him know the effect he was having on me. This was the kind of monster I was trained to kill. I wasn’t going to let him get away with hurting me like this. I definitely wasn’t going to let him know how much he was affecting me.
“Talk,” he said again.
“Suck my dick,” I replied. It didn’t matter that I didn’t have one. That was my response to anyone who threatened me or my way of life.
This creature was nothing to me but a blip on the radar that was my existence. I’d figure out a way to wiggle out from beneath his boot. I had to. Failure wasn’t an option for someone like me. It definitely wasn’t an option for today.
The vampire’s boot was cold and wet, and my skin started to feel gross and dirty. Looking up at him, I could see his leather trench coat floating in the breeze. Despite the fact that it was the middle of the night, I could see his cold, calculating face clearly.
Too bad he was a vamp.
If he wasn’t, I might actually think he was kind of hot.
“Nice try, love,” he said. His voice was smooth as silk, but it did nothing but piss me off. “Last chance. Why are you slinking around the Grove?”
He sounded like he actually didn’t know, which was good for me. The bad part was that he’d caught me, so if he told the other vampires that there was a hunter running around, they’d scatter. No longer would this be the hunting ground
I was counting on it to be, and I really, really loved my hunting ground. The Grove made finding vampires to slay really easy. Anytime someone caused any sort of trouble in the human city attached to the Grove, the vampires would just walk back through the iron gates and pretend they were safe.
Well, they weren’t safe.
I opened my mouth, ready to spit out another clever retort, but I was suddenly saved. A bird flew by just then, dangerously close to the vampire’s face, and he was distracted just long enough for him to slightly lighten the pressure on my neck. He probably didn’t even notice how his boot lifted just ever-so-slightly, but it was enough. I slid to the side, rolled over, and leapt to my feet.
Then I ran.
I started moving as fast as I possibly could. I knew that it wasn’t going to be fast enough. No matter how fast I ran, they would be able to catch me. That was the problem with vampires, after all. They always seemed to be just a little bit faster. They were just a little bit stronger than their human counterparts. Regardless of how long a human trained, at the end of the day, we were still mortal.
Sure enough, I felt something hit me from behind and I went barreling down, landing hard on the grass. He was on my back then, holding me down. I struggled, trying to break free, but I couldn’t get of his hold.
“Oh, little huntress, you can’t run from me,” he whispered in my ear. His breath was hot against my skin.
“So, you know who I am.”
Interesting.
He wasn’t a complete fool.
“I know a lot more than you think,” he said.
I believed him. Vampires didn’t live to be hundreds of years old by being idiots. It was almost always the young ones that I was able to kill. That was the thing about being a vampire hunter that people didn’t understand: learning which ones to kill was almost as hard as actually doing the killing. The young ones were stupid and reckless. They were wild and bloodthirsty. They were the ones who were bad and truly dangerous.
The older vampires mostly kept to themselves. Some of them would even stop drinking human blood and switch entirely to animal blood. They didn’t like to be bothered very much. They were tired, and they were ready to relax their way into eternity.
