Lucia shifted and swayed, like a cobra before a snake charmer, her smile bobbing up and down. Her hands still behind her back. “I know. I know! You’re all so…fucking…smart. And I’m just a dumb little cheerleader who got a C+ in English, like, I speak English. But you’re forgetting one thing.”
“Which is?”
“We’re in Texas, dumbass.”
Lucia held the pistol up to the glass and pulled the trigger.
After that, Mindy took over. Tying a rope around Haywood’s cooling legs. Throwing its length over the still ceiling fan. Giving the end to Lucia to hoist Haywood’s carcass up with her vampire strength while Mindy moved the empty paint buckets under her neck. Severing the jugular vein neatly—now that Mindy thought about it, it was possible Haywood had presided over the frog dissection in biology class. Mindy’s hand hadn’t shaken then either.
The buckets filled quickly. Mindy sealed them up and gave them to Lucia. They hadn’t gotten all of it, but something had to be left for atmosphere. A big dripping puddle of blood under an upside-down corpse—try blaming that on a tornado.
“This is why communication is so important,” she said to Lucia. “Imagine, thinking I had something against murderous rampages…”
“The important thing is that we’re doing things as a couple,” Lucia replied. “You got a smidge…”
She licked her thumb and rubbed at Mindy’s cheek, gratified to feel Mindy shudder into it.
“A little wet thumb action turning you on, Murphy?”
Mindy rolled her eyes. “We can continue this conversation away from the crime scene.”
“Babe, you are gonna make such a good vampire.”
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About Georgette Kaplan
It was never easy for Georgette Kaplan. She was born a poor child in Mississippi, where she still remembers sitting on the porch with her family, singing and dancing around her. After learning she was adopted, at the age of twenty-one, she hitchhiked to St. Louis, where she worked at a gas station and in a traveling carnival. After a shooting incident at the gas station, she decided to quit and pursue her lifelong dream of a career in writing. She now lives back in Mississippi with her life partner Marie.
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© 2016 by Georgette Kaplan
ISBN (mobi): 978-3-95533-407-9
ISBN (epub): 978-3-95533-408-6
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First edition: 2016
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