Ángel wrinkled his nose. “They stink,” he declared.
“How did your phone calls go?” Octavia asked Remmy.
“When you know as many people as I do,” Remmy told her, “catching up can take a while. I just had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine in the DEA.” He looked at them both. “How would you both like to work for the DEA as consultants? He knows who you are and what you were doing in Chihuahua. That’s priceless insider knowledge he could use.”
Octavia shaded her eyes, considering him. “Go back to the old game?” she asked. There was a note of doubt in her voice.
“You don’t want to?” Remmy asked, surprised. “I thought both of you would break your necks getting back there. You both have very big axes to grind.”
Octavia’s face tightened. “The animals down there are worse than the vampeen, who didn’t have a choice. I would spend all my days working to wipe the world of them, no problems. It’s just that, Remmy, we’re still strong, all of us. Nothing has faded. I can feel it. Ángel feels it. If we were to work with the DEA or any human agency, we’d have to throttle that strength and follow their channels and it would be horrible. I think of everything we did, fighting the Grimoré. It was amazing. It was so good being able to help people the way we did. If we go back to the DEA and surveillance and wire taps and all that tiresome red tape, it would be like spitting in the ocean, when we could part the ocean to get at what we want.”
She stopped, breathing heavily.
“I had no idea you felt this way,” he said.
“Yeah, well, I do,” she said flatly.
“So do I,” Remmy admitted. “Only, for a long, long time now, those human agencies have been the only way to fight the real evil in the world.”
Ángel shook his head. “It doesn’t have to be the only way. Not anymore. You’re both used to thinking inside the rules. I grew up learning how to break them.” He smiled. Ángel had been doing a lot more smiling lately, Remmy realized. The anger that had once burned in him was gone.
Ángel wasn’t finished though. “Don’t use the human channels,” he said. “Why should we? Octavia can go where she wants and she can take us with her. Besides, she would never leave her garden for long, now, either.”
Octavia shook her head and crossed her arms.
“So, let’s not leave here,” Ángel said. “Except to jump to where the bad guys are. With our speed and strength, we could do more to hurt the cartels inside a month than the DEA could do in a year. Between Octavia and me, we know exactly where and how to hit them, too.”
Remmy let out a breath. Weak relief was trickling through him, along with a growing excitement. “Work outside the channels…. Well, it will be a change of pace for me. I’ve been an official lawman for my entire life.”
“You’re going to have to stay one, too,” Octavia said. “Someone has to pay the bills and later on, we’ll need DEA intelligence to track down the assholes, too.”
“I’m going to have to find a new identity,” Remmy said slowly, thinking it through. “Bear Newman died in Mexico.”
“What’s wrong with Remmy Dalton?” Ángel asked.
“Nothing. It’s a fine name,” Octavia said firmly.
“Be myself?” Remmy asked, startled again. “I’m not sure I know how to do that anymore.”
“You’ll figure it out,” Ángel told him. “Just as we’ll figure out how to be our real selves, too.”
Chapter Twenty-Three
McGinty’s on any day of the week was a busy place, usually filled with students with their infinite capacity for alcohol and a need to wind down from studies.
Beth ordered a glass of red wine and grabbed the last booth along the back acre and sat quietly nursing the wine while listening to the noise of a bar in full swing. It sounded so alien now, yet this had been her workplace and she had found the sound of people drinking and having a good time energizing.
Yet even Jerry, the manager, wasn’t on duty tonight. The shift manager was a stranger to Beth, as were most of the staff. Jenny, whom Beth vaguely remembered, had looked at her with zero recognition and Beth chose not to remind her who she was. There were some familiar faces among the bar patrons, although they didn’t recognize her, either.
She was left alone in the booth, too old for the very young crowd to be interested in her, her nervousness building by the minute.
She smoothed the short skirt she was wearing and tugged the waistcoat back into place. She was starting to feel foolish for wearing the combination, now. She glanced at the old-fashioned clock on the wall over the bar. Twenty-five past eight. The date had been for eight o’clock. Was she being stood up?
She didn’t like that possibility. It fed into too many nightmares and the paranoia that had been building in her heart and thoughts for the last week.
A glass of champagne slid onto the table in front of her. “Buy you a drink, sweetheart?”
Beth recognized the strong wrist and the voice. She gasped and looked up at Zack. “Oh my god, you’re here,” she breathed.
His black eyes narrowed. “You really thought I wouldn’t show?”
“I didn’t know what to think.” She got quickly to her feet and wrapped her arms around his neck, holding on tightly. “I haven’t been able to feel Lindal all week. You’ve been gone, too. Everyone else is off, having their own lives and that left just me and I don’t know what I am anymore.”
“Shh…shh…” He pulled her arms from around his neck and held onto her hands. “Damn, you’re trembling.” He looked at her more closely. “Please don’t start crying, huh?”
He looked so frightened at the idea that she would shed tears that Beth found herself laughing, instead. It was a shaky laugh.
“Is there room at the table for a third?”
It was Lindal’s voice.
Beth spun to look at him. He caught her as she almost tripped over her own feet and pulled her up into his arms.
“I can feel you again,” she breathed and kissed him.
His hand settled on her thigh just below the hem of the skirt. His fingers moved softly. “So can I.” His voice was warm with promise, making her heart give a little squeeze and hurry on.
“I meant…you know.”
Lindal pulled her away from him and looked at her much as Zack had done. Zack was standing with his arms crossed, a smile on his face.
“You couldn’t feel me because I wasn’t here,” Lindal said. “I just got back, a moment ago. Outside in the alley, is where I jumped to, actually.”
“Oh….” She bit her lip. “When you said you had things to take care of I didn’t realize they were back on your world.”
Lindal eased her back onto her seat and nudged her along so he could sit next to her. Zack sat on the opposite side.
“I didn’t tell you it was there because I didn’t want to worry either of you. And it’s not my world anymore.” He picked up her hand. “This is my world.”
“So, you’re a Terran now?” Zack asked teasingly.
“No, this is my world,” Lindal said, not rising to the bait. “You and Beth, Zachariah. You are my world and always will be. Nothing can threaten us anymore. I won’t let it.”
Zack’s expression grew warmer. “If we were not in public, I would kiss you for that.”
Lindal shot him a glance that was heated. “Watch this, then.” He kissed Beth, taking his time, making it thorough, until her body was aching with the need to have them both, now.
Then he pulled back and looked down at the buttons on the waistcoat she was wearing. “Wait. Is this the same…they are! These are the same clothes you were wearing the night we saw the first vampeen.”
“When I found out you were an elf and Zack was a vampire and I was supposed to be the savior of the world, according to some ancient prophecy I’d never heard of,” Beth said, smiling.
“Well, that didn’t work out, did it?” Zack said dryly.
Even Lindal laughed. He toyed with the buttons on her
waistcoat. “If I remember correctly, these buttons got torn off.”
“They did,” Beth said, struggling to keep her tone calm.
“While you were sitting on my knee, in Zack’s car,” Lindal added.
Zack leaned forward. “The Maserati is just outside.” His voice was low, thick with lust.
Lindal got to his feet and pulled Beth out from behind the table, onto the floor next to the booth. “How fast can we get the bill paid and get out of here?”
Beth let him lead her from the bar, her hand in his, with Zack brushing up behind her in his haste. The two of them, a son of night and a son of morning and they loved her.
She had no idea what the future held. She suddenly didn’t care, either. It was enough that they were in it.
More MMF Ménage Vampire Romance
by Tracy Cooper-Posey
The book you have just read, Terra’s Victory, is the last book in the Destiny’s Trinities series.
In the meantime, if you like vampires and ménage:
Blood Knot: A Vampire Menage Urban Fantasy Romance – The Blood Stone Series Book 1
To survive they must trust each other. Only…can they?
Winter, a professional thief who can manipulate others’ biologies by touch, accidentally “healed” her former partner—and former vampire—Sebastian, whom she secretly loves. Her healing created a symbiotic pairing between them that neither of them wants.
Nathanial, a sexy thousand-year-old vampire and Sebastian’s ex-lover, talks Sebastian and Winter into stealing evidence that will expose all vampires to the world. But Nathanial is a puppet-master who doesn’t believe in falling in love with humans, leaving Winter unsure of his real feelings for her once he seduces her, or how he feels about Sebastian, the former vampire-now-human whose life he has turned upside down once more.
But the evidence they steal is hot property. The future of all vampires is on the line and others will stop at nothing to get it, leaving Sebastian, Winter and Nathanial with no allies but each other. They must trust each other to survive. Only...can they?
WARNING: This paranormal MMF urban fantasy contains two hot, sexy alpha heroes, frequent, explicit and frank sex scenes and sexual language.
It includes heart-stopping sexual scenes between the aforementioned sexy heroes, ménage scenes, anal sex and the use of sex toys. Don't proceed beyond this point if hot love scenes offend you.
No vampires were harmed in the making of this novel.
This book is part of the Blood Stone Series
Blood Stone 1.0: Blood Knot (#1 Amazon Best Seller, Fantasy Romance)
Blood Drops 1.1: Southampton Swindle*
Blood Drops 1.2: Broken Promise
Blood Drops 1.3: Vale
Blood Drops 1.5: Amor Meus (Anthology)
Blood Stone 2.0: Blood Stone
Blood Stone 3.0: Blood Unleashed
Blood Stone 3.5: Blood Drive – Blood Stone Boxed Set 1
Blood Stone 4.0: Blood Revealed
Blood Stone 5.0: Blood Ascendant (upcoming)
[*Blood Drops are short and novella length stories featuring the characters and situations in the Blood Stone series. Droplet sized morsels for your reading pleasure.]
These are continuing characters and storylines. Reading the series in order is strongly recommended.
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Top 100, Amazon Vampire Romance Best-Seller
Winner, Coffee Time Reviewer’s Recommended Award
Goodread’s “Most Drool-worthy Covers“
Erotic Vampire Book of the Year, The Romance Reviews, 2011
CAPA Nomination, Best Paranormal Book of the Year, The Romance Studio, 2011
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About the Author
Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, paranormal, urban fantasy, futuristic and science fiction romances. She has published over 65 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.
She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year and Byzantine Heartbreak was a 2012 winner. Faring Soul won a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.
She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
Other books by Tracy Cooper-Posey
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Blood Knot Series (Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)
Blood Knot *
Southampton Swindle
Broken Promise
Vale
Amor Meus (Anthology)
Blood Stone
Blood Unleashed
Blood Drive (Boxed Set, Bks 1-3)
Blood Revealed
Blood Ascendent (upcoming)
Beloved Bloody Time Series (Paranormal Futuristic Time Travel)
Bannockburn Binding *
Wait
Byzantine Heartbreak
Viennese Agreement
Romani Armada
Spartan Resistance
Kiss Across Time Series (Paranormal Time Travel)
Kiss Across Time*
Kiss Across Swords
Time Kissed Moments I
Kiss Across Chains
Kiss Across Deserts
Kiss Across Kingdoms
The Kine Prophecies (Epic Norse Fantasy Romance)
The Branded Rose Prophecy
The Stonebrood Saga(Gargoyle Paranormal Series)
Carson’s Night*
Beauty’s Beasts
Harvest of Holidays
Unbearable
Sabrina’s Clan
Destiny’s Trinities (Urban Fantasy Romance Series)
Beth’s Acceptance*
Mia’s Return
Sera’s Gift
The First Trinity (Anth.)
Cora’s Secret
Zoe’s Blockade
Octavia’s War
The Second Trinity (Anth.)
Terra’s Victory
Interspace Origins (Science Fiction Romance Series)
Faring Soul
Varkan Rise
Cat and Company
Short Paranormals
Solstice Surrender
Eva’s Last Dance
The Vistaria Affair (Romantic Suspense)
Red Leopard*
Black Heart
Blue Knight
White Dawn
Go-get-‘em Women (Short Romantic Suspense Series)
The Royal Talisman
Delly’s Last Night
Vivian’s Return
Ningaloo Nights
Jewells of Tomorrow (Historical Romantic Suspense)
Diana By The Moon
Heart of Vengeance
Scandalous Sirens (Historical Romance Series)
Forbidden*
Dangerous Beauty
Perilous Princess
Romantic Thrillers Series
Fatal Wild Child
Dead Again
Dead Double
Terror Stash
Thrilling Affair (Boxed Set)
The Endurance (Science Fiction Romance Series)
5,001
Greyson’s Doom
Yesterday’s Legacy
Promissory Note
Xenogenesis
Contemporary Romances
Lucifer’s Lover
An Inconvenient Lover
The Sherlock Holmes Series (Romantic Suspense/Mystery)
Chronicles of the Lost Years
The Case of the Reluctant Agent
For reviews, excerpts, and more about each title, visit Tracy’s site and click on each title in turn: http://tracycooperposey.com/books-by-thumbnail/
Copyright Information
This is an original publication of Tracy Cooper-Posey
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for third-party websites or their content.
Copyright © 2016 by Tracy Cooper-Posey
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