Finally Dead (Eve Benson: Vampire Book 1) by P. S. Power Page B

growl at her conversational tone, he winked.
    “Good
plan. I’ll be taking off as soon as my relief gets here, but then come back.
So, are you up to helping out here for the night? Just clean, unless something
comes up. Then try to stay out of it, unless asked to help. Understood? No
matter what, don’t let yourself get to close to any Humans.”
    It made
sense to her, so she locked eyes with her new boss and smiled.
    “Will
do. Who’s on tonight?”
    That it
turned out was Cormack, who wasn’t the oldest or strongest Vampire in the
world, but he was stable enough to keep an eye on her, which should be fine as
long as she was actually useful, and not being a pain in the ass like everyone
expected her to be.
    The others
cleared out, with both Barb and Bey looking back at her, though the tiny man
smiled warmly and clasped his hands just outside the door.
    “I have
the utmost faith in you, Miss Benson.” Then he left, vanishing into the mall,
walking like a totally normal person.
    That got
her to blink. He’d been gone already, and managed to come back without her
noticing it? That was power, there.
    Edom
didn’t have to wait long, after the others got out of the place, because at
about midnight the new shift came. Without bothering to explain the situation,
her muscular and dark skinned buddy took off the girly white and green apron
and he moved to the back closet, where his very nicely cut gray suit jacket
was. Out of all of them he was the best dressed Vampire, most of the time. Bey
wore suits, but they were all old and functional. Lenore had dresses on, but
they were serviceable, not grand things.
    Her new
Vampire master looked good .
    It
occurred to her however, as she watched him leave, that looking at his butt was
doing nothing for her. Sighing, she smiled at Cormack. He also had a suit on,
but it was clearly a standard issue, black, off the rack, thing, and after a
few moments he was back out front, wearing a Yoghurt World apron that was white
and green. It was kind of fabulous, but he didn’t seem out of place wearing it.
He looked to be in his early thirties, and had slightly curly hair.
    There
was no gray, and his face held no lines except right around the eyes. She just
kept cleaning, moving at a normal Human speed, so that it wouldn’t call
attention to them, if anyone was watching.
    “Eve
girl! I wasn’t thinking to see you for a long time, or more. Is Mr. Edom
grooming you for my job then? I’d best hustle and find a new place if that’s
the situation.” There was a bit of playfulness in his voice, until he looked at
her closely and tilted his head. “Oh… My. You’re working here ? I…”
    She
smiled, and kept moving, lifting the corner of the large and very heavy silver
frozen treat machine, so that she could get under the plastic feet. Lenore
would check her work and while it was totally clean already, she could tell if
there was residual moisture in places like that.
    “Yep!
I’m not getting your job though. Ed mentioned testing me, so I think
he’s probably standing outside, waiting for me to have some kind of issue. I
won’t though. I should be done with the cleaning in about forty minutes, then…”
Well, she could do it over again, but like she’d just thought, the place was
clean.
    Cormack fake
blinked at her for a while, then cleared his throat. It was decently well done,
though the timing was a bit off. It was hard to put her finger on, but she
decided to pay attention to it, since mastering things like that was important.
Keeping that in mind, she faked a yawn, covering it with a fist.
    “Oh,
sorry. Well, you know, night shift. I can help out though, as long as it isn’t
anything too advanced? I’m supposed to avoid regular peeps, and all that.”
    There
was a slow nod, and a hand held up, as he moved to the phone. Just before it
rang. That had always impressed her before, but this time she heard the chirp
that came before the ring by a tenth of a second.
    Eve got
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