Games Demons Play-Snippet 6

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She stumbled up the hillside to where Gorgeous lay, upside down, her windshield gaping open. Bits of her lay scattered on the slope. A fender. A side mirror.

Her lights blinded Izzy.

She squinched her lids shut and held out a hand to further shield herself.

“Are you sure you’re okay?” A twig snapped beneath his foot as he approached. A heavy hand settled on her left shoulder. Izzy spun away from him, hissing.

“Whoa! It’s okay, little vamp.”

“This is not okay!”

This was bad. So very bad. Valencia was going to kill her. She would not be surprised if the mansion had a dungeon somewhere. Valencia would lock her up for all eternity.

“It can be fixed.”

She started to tremble. “Fixed?” Izzy screeched, feeling more unraveled by the second.

Valencia saved her life. Turned her. Gave her a home. Protection. Taught her the ways of the vampire. And what had Izzy done? Wrecked the most expensive car in V’s stable.

Oh heavens. She was going to pass out. Was it possible for a vamp to pass out?

She quickly sat before she fell. The handsome man sat next to her. She squinted at the upside-down car.

“Do you have any idea how much it would cost to fix,” she waved her hand in the general direction of the Bugatti, “that?”

 

 

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