Page 17 of Suck This

The blush was absolutely darling, too.

“All right, thank you again. Go eat your food.”

Marcy scampered off, and I grinned at Nash before turning my attention back to Corbin.

“Corbin and Marcy, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G,” I sang. “First comes love…”

“Stop it.”

“Then comes marriage…”

“I said stop!”

“Then comes a baby in a baby carriage!”

“Jesus Christ, Acadia. You’re an asshole.”

I grinned.

That was what little sisters were for.

“Now, about the vampire…”

“Acadia, you say his name one more time, I’ll kick you out of this office, and you can find your own ride home,” Corbin countered.

I snorted.

“Corbin…”

“Don’t,” Corbin growled.

“Well, if she can’t say anything, you sure as hell can’t deny me. I’m Constantine Worth’s counsel. I’m officially requesting that he be relinquished immediately,” Nash said, a smirk riding high on his lips.

Corbin growled, and I chose to take my sandwich elsewhere.

Elsewhere being the jail cell that Constantine was being held.

I also swiped my brother’s keys as I left, too.

If he wouldn’t move him, I would.

The man had saved my life. I could do nothing less.

I found him in the one and only cell that was vamp-equipped, which also happened to offer the most privacy.

See, Austin, Texas didn’t have as much money as other bigger cities. And although, by law, we were required to have at least one vamp-equipped cell, that was all we had. We didn’t have the special camera system that other cities had. We didn’t have the vampire staff that would and could watch over them. Really, we just had one single cell, the only one that had the most reinforcement originally, and beefed it up.

The vamp-equipped cell consisted of silver bars—which were supposedly detrimental to a vampire—steel-reinforced concrete walls that were near impenetrable, and no light source.

Well, there wasn’t supposed to be a light source.

Our department didn’t have the funds available to take away the light source, so instead they used the leftover silver sent over by the government-issued bars and used those to reinforce the window.

Meaning, I could see outside, and what I could see made me nervous. Nervous because I could see the start of dawn peeking over the horizon.

And the man, the stupid vampire currently lying in the cell like he didn’t even have a care in the world, wasn’t even aware that his death was on the horizon.

Slipping the key into the lock, I swung the cell door open and said, “We need to move you to the next cell over since it’s almost dawn.”

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