I am 15k words into book 17, bloody escape!
Teaser:
'Come on let's get inside. I'll take Carrie and you'll go in the front and open the door?' Shane took her hand up to his lips and kissed it. It was awfully dark outside and none of the streetlights worked anymore. She swallowed and nodded. They both knew the routine, but it had changed ever so slightly now that they had a baby basket to get inside as well.
'Okay. Be careful and quiet,' Claire warned and took the keys he handed her. Of course, he nodded and jumped out of the car. Quickly she did the same and sprinted up to the door, unlocked it and turned to see Shane hurrying after. Everything seemed legit until Carrie let out a full-blown cry, which took Shane by surprise and made him freeze for a second. A second was all it took for something to push him out of the light that came from the Glass House. The baby basket fell gently to the ground with its pink bow falling off. Shane was pinned down just where the light didn't reach and Carrie had stopped crying. Claire snapped out of the trance and felt up her pants where she usually had some kind of weapon – but not today.
'We're under Amelie's protection!' she yelled into the dark. The vampire that had Shane made sure he wouldn't make any sound. And there weren't just one. Out of the shadows came a tall, dark skinned vampire. She had never seen a dark skinned vamp, just about every other race including Greeks, Asians, Americans and even a few of them that looked like Scandinavians.
'Take one step closer and I believe your little baby here will be punished. She looks new. Congratulations, is it a girl?' He smiled. In her side view, she saw Shane fighting for his life trying to keep the hungry vamp from nibbling his throat.
'Who are you?' With only one eye scan she could tell he came from the filthy street, the place where all the less succeeded vamps were living. She barely remembered the first time Shane had taken her to the drive-in movie theatre for the first time. The fastest way there would be through the Vamp Ghetto.
'Aren't I rude? I'm Jeremy. You must be Claire?' He lifted the baby basket up to his nasty face and sniffed inside. 'Mm, infants. They smell really good the first weeks, don't you think?'
'I don't know. You kind of took her away from me before I got to smell her,' she replied with a voice ten times steadier than she felt.
'Claudette, lâcher prise maintenant!' Jeremy said in perfect French. The vampire, who Claire really thought had been a man, let go of Shane...
I will post a new chapter here as I publish chapter one of Bloody Escape. :)