Chapter 7 #3
“We’ve decided to let the two of you be our seconds.
I think that with Kimber being my second, it will catch a great many people off guard, and they’ll underestimate her.
They’ll only do that the one time before she hands them their asses.
I know that I won’t do that again.” Rance told him what they’d talked about with babies.
“You don’t want any? That’s not usual, is it?
I thought that all vampires wanted to procreate. ”
“She said she might change her mind later, but for now, we’ve decided that we don’t want any children around.
I think the two of us like our solitude much better than having children around all the time.
” Brew said he could understand that. “You’ll have to look into David’s estate for me.
I don’t know what he had, but we’ve talked it over, and we’d like for whatever it is to go into the vampire fund for wayward vampires.
That way, someone will get some use out of it sooner rather than later. We have no use for the money anyway.”
“All right, I can do that. Is there anything else you wish for me to do? I’m in a generous mood right now and would do just about anything for the two of you.
” He told him. “I can do that too. It would be my pleasure to make sure that your parents’ money is given out the same way.
If you don’t mind me asking, why has it taken you so long to decide what you wanted done with it? ”
“I never believed what David said about them dying the way that they did. I never touched it for fear that it would be one more thing that David would want something from me for. Understand?” He said that he did and would be happy to do that for him.
“Thank you. So much. I have a list of things that Kimber told me about tonight about David that you’ll have to see if it’s in the book.
He’s been doing things that have given us a bad name for a very long time. ”
“I’m looking at the book now. It’s still filling out names that are associated with him in their death.
I didn’t know that it would also tell me that they were shifter or human.
It’s good to know. I haven’t decided to go to the police yet.
This will solve a lot of open cases for them if I do.
But I’d tell a shifter that might be involved so that they can finally have peace for the family.
The humans, too, I suppose.” He told him he’d do it a little at a time and only with the humans.
“I can see that. After a while, it won’t matter if I give them lots of names or not.
They’ll be happy to have the cases solved. I hope.”
“I would if I was a cop. I was one for a while, and getting cases off my table would be great.” After talking a bit more, they closed the connection. Getting up after putting Kimber in a deeper sleep, he made his way to his office.
There were things that he wanted to get done, and when she was around, he was too distracted to get anything finished up in a timely manner. Not that he minded. He loved having her around. After getting his computer opened up for business, he found himself drifting off, thinking about Kimber.
What she’d done tonight could have gotten her killed.
But she’d done it so fast, getting the job done, she told him that he’d had no time to react.
Once David was dead, gone from this earth, he could only stand in awe of her and her magic.
What surprised him was that she didn’t need any help from either him or Brew.
She’d seen a job that needed to be done and did it. He loved that about her.
If he were honest with himself, he couldn’t think of a single thing that he didn’t love about her.
From the freckles across her nose to the way she painted her toenails different colors depending on what she was wearing.
He thought that she had the sexiest feet of any feet he’d ever seen, and he found that he was surprised by that.
He normally wasn’t a feet sort of person.
After going over his investments, he worked on Kimber’s money.
She’d asked him to invest in some of the things that he invested in, and he was happy to do that for her.
Some of his investments were centuries old, while others were things that he had only just bought into.
He was happy to invest in smaller companies.
It had paid off well for him over the years, and he wasn’t afraid to take a chance on things like candle companies and such.
Just as the sun was coming up, he decided to go see if Kimber was all right.
She would sleep the day away if he allowed her to be in the sleep with his magic.
Taking the magic away, he was surprised when she continued to sleep.
She must have needed it, he thought, and let her sleep until she wanted to wake up.
Wandering around the house, finding little things to do, he was glad that the house was looking more and feeling so much more like a home.
He loved spending time here now and was glad that he’d been able to get a second chance from Kimber.
He’d been an asshole around her, and he was surprised every day that she told him that she loved him.
It was almost more than he thought he deserved from her.
It was nearly noon when she finally woke up.
She felt so bad for sleeping so long, but he did notice that she looked better.
Her cheeks were flushed, and even her hair seemed to be silkier.
When she ate a big meal for her lunch, he felt better for letting her sleep for so long.
She seemed to be coming around to being his mate in all things, and he was happy for that.
He was going over her investments that he’d made when Brew called.
He had someone who was insisting that the council be reinstated.
They were dead, so that wasn’t going to happen, so she told him the rules regarding the council and how to get away without having one.
It was within his power to have or not have one, but since he’d told him once they only did the small, easy cases, they were useless anyway.
He decided that he didn’t want them messing with things and told the man, a vampire who wasn’t too old, that he’d have to deal with him from now on.
That didn’t go over very well for the man, and he hung up so that he could deal with him.
There were several more calls throughout the afternoon and into the evening.
Brew said he was going to have to read over the rules again so he’d not bother them, but Kimber told him it was fun being able to help.
As soon as he hung up the phone for the fourth time, he called right back and asked her about the rules that were no longer being enforced.
“It’s up to you if you want to keep using them or not.
There are a lot of them that are so old that I’m sure no one has bothered to update the book in a long time.
One of them says that vampires that make more than one baby a year would be killed by you.
I kinda like that rule. It seems that you should be enforcing that one right away.
” Brew asked her if she knew of someone doing that.
“Yes, right now there’s a nest of vampires that are going to take over the world from humans.
I don’t know what they expect to happen if they kill off all of us, but that’s their plan.
Don’t they have to feed from humans anyway? ”
“Some people never think beyond what’s in front of them. I’ve found that out a long time ago.” He told her that he’d have to take care of the nest. “I have to take you with me on that. I don’t see how much trouble I’ll be in when I go there, but you never know.”
“I don’t mind. It’s what I do now.” She was told that she was going to be paid, and that thrilled her. As soon as they set up a time to take care of the baby vampires, she hung up the phone.
“It won’t be any trouble.” He said he was going anyway. “Good. I was hoping you’d say that. I love you, Rance.”
“And I love you.” And he would forever, he told her. Being in love with his mate had never felt so good before. He knew that tomorrow he’d love her even more than today, too.