by V M Black
“Stealing his car? That was your idea,” Harper said.
“No, I meant trying to convince him he was crazy.”
“I thought it might buy us a few more minutes,” she said. “And maybe the police will think he’s high when he files his report.”
“A Mini Cooper?” he said then. “Really, Harper? That was the best you could do?”
“You’re the one who wanted the big shoes,” she said. “Hijackers can’t be choosers.”
Levi got the reader free and slotted it into the tablet. “Card now,” he ordered.
Harper pulled it out of her pocket and handed it over. “Sorry. There weren’t any prepaid smart phones. If you can get the data off that, we’ll have to pull in near a McDonald’s or something to use their WiFi to send it off.”
“We can deal with that,” he said. He slotted the card into place, then tapped around.
After a long moment in which Harper hardly dared to breathe, Levi broke the silence.
“Damn.”
It was such a casual word, said almost carelessly, that for a moment the full significance didn’t hit her.
And then it did, and her heart almost stopped.
“It didn’t work,” Levi said. “There are files on the SD card, all right. But I can’t get to them through the reader.”
“It didn’t work,” Harper repeated, her hands tightening on the steering wheel.
The words sounded like a death sentence.
The story continues in…
The Alpha’s Captive
Part Four
Aethereal Bonds
On Sale July 2014
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Harper and Levi are on the run from the vampire mafia, who will do anything to get back the files they’ve stolen. All they have to do to be free is make copies of the data, which is proving to be far more difficult than they’d expected.
Their first attempt failed, so they run the gauntlet to reach someone who can help. But with the vampire hot on their heels, their chances of success—and survival—are quickly shrinking. And so is the wall that Harper has put around her heart.
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Table of Contents
Aethereal Bonds
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Afterword