Super model, glamour queen, rich, famous, vampire? That's Andromeda Redfern one of the 'vermin's' top models and a Night World council enforcer. When she's asked to hunt down a renegade illegally made vampire, she sees only another job. Even after the warning from her concerned brother that all is not what it seems. After being forced to re evaluate her own immortality she begins to wonder whether serving her own ends could be as profitable as serving the councils and runs into deadly danger.
Thanks to: Ki, for what? Oh you'll find out later, Camilla, Diomede* who told me to write another one (sorry shes not as bitchy as Lynx....i dont think its possible) and everyone else who reviewed Night Blade
"Turn and stop.....walk and pout, perfect! Ok Andrea, that's a wrap" She opened her mouth and then shut it again before walking away from the cameras swearing under her breath in Spanish. She made it to a swarthy looking man in a puce suit before she exploded "I am never working for this imbecile again" she shouted bringing several chins up from his chest. For a second he appeared about to protest but gave up under the baleful stare of a pair of perfect aqua eyes. "Fair enough Ms Andromeda, lets just get your money and go then" and they did.
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Andromeda was still swearing when she arrived for her meeting at around 11.55 p.m. "Why do vermin have so much trouble with four simple syllables?" she groaned to the wall at the end of the alleyway she hadn't expected an answer "They have trouble wiping their asses how can you expect their higher functions to work?" she spun custom pistol in hand when a low chuckle that she recognised floated from the top of the wall and her in-drawn breath sighed outwards "Talon Solitaire, must you creep up on me?"
The were wolf she had been expecting dropped down into the alley swiping back mud brown hair and still laughing at his own humour. "Creep up on you? Andromeda my sweet, creeping up on you is damn near impossible, so I'll take your little explosion of temper as a compliment."
She would have laughed except for the fact that Talon Solitaire was the best at what he did and he crept up on people for a living. She straightened her shoulders and looked him over, at 6'3 he was tall for a Were wolf he was also smart, very very smart. The hair was a dye job she'd seen it in its full glory a bright auburn that came very close to her sisters blood red and eyes black as midnight spilt oil, the contacts were a nasty brown he looked like a college geek.
"What's the news?" He looked at her with one eyebrow raised before leaning back against the wall suddenly serious. "Your sisters gone AWOL from her apartment, but that's nothing new, we have an assignment, in two different places"
An assignment in two different places, that was the more worrying piece of news, Lynx was quite capable of taking care of herself, plus an entire regiment of hungry Dragons if necessary. But she and Talon had been together for almost forty years now, they were an effective team, she looked at him a question in her eyes.
A sigh almost worked past his guard and he suddenly looked tired "Please don't ask me, they've sworn me to secrecy, even from you, but they want you after some rogue vampire with a passion for beautiful women" He made a mock lecherous glance but his heart wasn't in it, he normally teased much closer to the edge of her tolerance. She smiled and threw a bundle at him "Here, I can't be the best dressed Enforcer on the team with you looking that bad, especially if you insist on coming to Aspens Samhaine doo next month."
His grin reappeared in a sudden dangerous motion "I've been coming to Aspens doo's longer than you have, you overdressed slapper" She felt her smile curve up the corners of her mouth "True, and looking as if you got blew up with dear old granddaddy every time" he flipped her a finger and threw a CD at her, she fielded it out of the air and flipped one back.
"That's the data you need on your man" the innuendo in the sentence was almost painful, she winced and made a mock moan, he had slipped up the wall like a lizard and was looking down at her, the moon reflecting like fire in the darkness of his eyes. "Take care Andromeda, I want to you alive to see me wearing whatever crap you've dreamed up for me" She winked up at him, unconcerned to the core she was the best there was at what she did, a family trait.
"Redfern Rules apply Talon my lovely, Redfern Rules apply" a momentary chuckle from the top of the wall and then he was gone but his last words floated back to her as she made her way to the Lexus that was waiting for her.
"Isn't that what your mother thought?"