“Yeah, speaking of that, what’s going to happen with Kim? Not that I care,” Shane said quickly when Claire looked at him. “Just curious.”
“I asked,” Eve said. “Chief Moses says they’ll keep her in the nuthouse for a while, see if she gets better. But even if she does, she’ll be in jail a long time.”
“You okay with that?”
Eve took in a deep breath. “Yeah,” she said. “Yeah, I guess I am.”
Claire looked down at the hard drive in her hand, the Sharpie-marked evidence, took it out, and handed it to Shane. “You do the honors,” he said.
One smash against the bricks, and it shattered. He kept on smashing it, just to be sure, and then tossed the remains into a handy trash can at the end of the alley.
“The end,” Shane said.
It wasn’t. Michael and Eve were walking together, but not touching; Claire could see the tension between them. Ada was dead, and that meant the vampires were risking everything, at least for a while. As for Amelie’s “gift,” Claire knew there had to be a catch, and a big one.
It wasn’t the end at all . . . but Claire was content to pretend for now. With Shane warm at her side, and the future stretching out in front of them, she could pretend for today that it was happily ever after.
Of course, tomorrow was another day.
TRACK LIST
In case you want to listen along to the songs I used to help me write this book, here they are! Buy the tracks, please. Don’t be a vampire preying on the artists.
"Ghost Town" Shiny Toy Guns
"Falls Apart" Hurt
"Under the Gun" Supreme Beings of Leisure
"Auditorium" American Princes
"Devil in Me" 22-20's
"John Barleycorn" Traffic
"Glory Box" Portishead
"The Hop" Radio Citizen feat. Bajka
"Roads" Portishead
"My Old Self" Wide Mouth Mason
"I Got Mine" The Black Keys
"C'mon C'mon" The Von Bondies
"Every Inambition" The Trews
"Ladylike" Big Wreck
"Numb" Holly McNarland
"Beauty of Speed" Tori Amos
"Best Way to Die" Jet Set Satellite
"Love Hurts" Incubus
"Little Toy Gun" HoneyHoney
"I Don't Care" Fall Out Boy
"Many Shades of Black" The Raconteurs
"Headfirst Slide into Copperstown" Fall Out Boy
"URA Fever" The Kills
"Manic Girl" Radio Iodine
"Take Me to the Speedway" The Dexateens
"Alsarian" White Rose Movement
"Posion Whiskey" Tishamingo
"Welcome Home" Coheed & Cambria
"Tick Tick Boom" The Hives
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" Joe Bonamassa
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" Beck
"The Ballad of John Henry" Joe Bonamassa
"Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter" Joe Bonamassa
"Happier Times" Joe Bonamassa
"Faster" Rachael Yamagata
"Around the Bend" The Asteroid Galaxy Tour
"Slow Dance with a Stranger" Danger Radio
"Ardmore" Cardinal Trait
"Prayer" Lizzie West
"Bounce" The Cab
"Time Bomb" Jessy Greene
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Caine is the author of the New York Times best-selling Morganville Vampires series as well as the best-selling Weather Warden series, which includes Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air, Gale Force, and Cape Storm. Her ninth Weather Warden novel will be released in August 2010. She also recently started another series, Outcast Season, with the release of the first novel, Undone.
Rachel and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their igua nas, Popeye and Darwin.
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