The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 183
Alexander
Every coroner in the region had been called in. The block was lined with medical transport vehicles. It was going to be a long and slow process getting all of the bodies into them and on their way somewhere that our kind could treat them with honor and begin the process of attempting to identify them.
The medical professionals tasked with pulling the bodies off of the pile and moving them into the waiting vehicles were wearing full hazmat suits, on account of all the still-tacky blood slicking the steps and surrounding area, as well as the rotten condition of some of the bodies.
atrocious undertaking.
arantine suit stagger down to the street, unzip and rip her face mask off frantically, double over and vomit into the gutter. I was a little surprised that she was the only one. I t
of course, before we allowed civilians to come near and begin processing the scene.
s under his command, with whom he was debriefing. Kayden was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
and called Fiona. She picked up the phone right away.
“Al
kay, baby.”
d,” she breathed. “I am so happy to hear your
calling.”
on as I could. Things are finally sett
“And Kayden?”
kay. Is Nina with
ight here. You’re on speaker.”
is okay. He was injured, though. He’s going to be just fine, but he got bitten. He just need
Alex?”
”
w, sweetheart. You just take care of Lexi and we will be back as soon as we can.”
. “There must be something that I can do.
lp, Alex.”
t she was right.
point. Some point soon, later today I guess.
d here, you could find out when and where all that will need to take place. And help me start prepar
ne.
Thank you, Fiona.”
. It’s my job.”
I’m heading home.”
oon.”
the passenger seat, and snoring lightly.
kin in ways that could only be terrifically painful.
of pill down his throat myself if he didn’t. He chose option one.
sary when I finally saw his eyebrows unfurrow and his jaw unclench with relief from the severe pain he’d been enduring for hours by
ould, before pulling on the change of clothes I’d brought along, but it had seeped and dried into my hair and skin and needed to be scrubbed out with soap and n
hing vampire blood draining down into the floor of the shower I shared with Fiona in our bedroom. I could not, would not do that.
en route.
es before returning to our room. I needed to get Kayden to his, and then wanted to clean up in my study.
e like a baby. Would have served me right, though, for forcing the meds on him. He passed back out as soon as he hit the sheets.
study.
ike this.”
ppraisingly, but she did not flinch or grimace at the sight of my blackened hair, teeth and fingernails. “Alex. You don’t have to be alone right now.”
er to stop. “I want to clean up before I touch you,” I said gently. She nodded.
e entered my study. There was a bathroom suite off one end of it.
ower.”
staff and have them send some food over.”
r that, and then we parted ways.
as I closed the bathroom door behind me. I cranked the hot water and stripped my clothes off. Before stepping in, though, I fished around the cabinets and found a toothbrush and some toothpaste, and took them with me.
and rinsed my body. Then washed my hair again and ran some condi
hard I gagged myself, but it was necessary. I doubled over and spat out a small rush of liquid, aiming it right into the shower drain. It was blackish green. Bile mixed with a little vampire blood I’d accidentally swallowed. At last, I could no
she removed her own clothes and joined me in the shower.
cleaning myself.
was blood-free by now.
es and kissed me. I wrapped her body up in my arms. She felt tiny and feather-light when I picked her up – she was losing her baby weight fast these days.
The shower had been feeling pretty good. But that kiss actually made m
en feeling and turned it into s****| desire. I took her once in the shower.
the bearskin rug in front of the fireplace, which the staff had been kind enough to start a blaze inside of when they’d come in to set out a breakfast spread.
to eating that feast, and did a real number on it.