About The Assignment

by Ann Taylor
17 pages / 4200 words
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Vampire hunter Kellen is assigned to keep an eye on Sanders Wakefield, romance novelist/recently turned vampire. He expects boredom and maybe some good, old-fashioned bloodshed if worse comes to worst. Kellen could deal with a pair of fangs to the jugular, but what is he supposed to do about an offer of tea?

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He'd been watching the vampire relentlessly for about two weeks now, two entire weeks in which his subject had failed to do anything even remotely vampiric. The guy revived at sundown like they all did, but instead of going out to hunt like any self-respecting vampire would, Sanders Wakefield seemed to spend all his waking hours hunched over his laptop, alternately typing and muttering to himself. Kellen had no doubt the guy was a vampire, as he had witnessed Wakefield drinking blood a couple of times. The problem with that was that the blood hadn't come from some unsuspecting virgin's carotid artery; rather, it seemed to arrive in unlabeled bottles -- the kind normal people kept milk in -- every other day. It was delivered to Wakefield's door during the daylight hours by some kid; Kellen hadn't wasted any time checking him out because he was very clearly human.

Kellen was starting to get fed up with this assignment. He needed to see Wakefield in action in order to stake him, and that was clearly not happening. Maybe he was aware of being watched? But if he'd noticed Kellen watching him from the roof of the building opposite his, he would have made a move by now, surely?