Innocence and Evil (The Arcadia Falls Chronicles #6) Read Online Free PDF

skinny and pale with hair so blond
it was almost white. He wore a white tank top with saggy black
jeans. The other man was large, muscular and had dark hair. His
attire consisted of jeans that actually fit and a black hoodie.
Both men had a dragon tattooed on their face.
    They stood close together, whispering. The
back of the pickup was open and several boxes sat on the edge of
the tailgate. It was hard to tell just yet if they were taking the
boxes into the building or carting them out to the truck.
    The next thing I knew, Christina was beside
me.
    “Shhh,” I warned.
    She said nothing in response, so I focused
my hearing again. I wanted to know what these guys were talking
about. If it wasn’t for the Dragons, they could have just been
taken for some guys out delivering or picking up some stolen DVD
players or something. Ever since the vampire takeover, the looting
and crime had actually gone up, not down. So, it wasn’t uncommon to
run across that sort of exchange.
    “How many more boxes in there?” Black hoodie
tilted his head toward the warehouse.
    Tank top wiped his hands on his jeans. “Six
I think.”
    “Well, let’s get a move on, the boss gets
cranky when the deliveries are late.”
    Tank top lifted the lid on one of the
cartons and reached inside. When he withdrew his hand, a blood bag
was dangling from his fingers.
    Without looking away, I tapped Christina’s
leg to make sure she saw what I was seeing
    “This is so nasty.” Tank top glanced at his
friend. “You ever wonder what it would be like?”
    Black hoodie took the blood bag from his
friend and gently set it back in the carton, then replaced the lid.
“Don’t touch those.”
    “But do you?”
    The larger man pushed the carton the rest of
the way into the truck and then headed for the doorway to the
warehouse. “Of course I do, Alec, who doesn’t think about what it
would be like to become immortal.”
    The other man, Alec, nodded in agreement.
“But what about the blood drinking?” He pointed at the cartons.
“Could you do it?”
    Black hoodie nodded as he headed for the
door of the warehouse. “Yes,” he answered. “And I would probably
love it. Every vampire I’ve ever met loves it.”
    Both men went back into the building. I took
the opportunity and pushed Christina back around the corner. “I
think we have some questions for these guys.”
    She raised an eyebrow. “We could just follow
them. That would lead us to the vampires they are delivering to and
probably more Dragons.”
    I shook my head. “No, we don’t have a
vehicle, they do. We would never be able to keep up with them.”
That was only partly true. She may not be able to keep up with
them, but I could. I wasn’t as fast as Chloe, but being a dhampir
did have its perks.
    “Crap, I forgot.” She rolled her eyes.
    I leaned toward her. “So are you in? We have
to decide now.”
    She nodded, her ponytail swinging. “Of
course I am.”
    With the plan made, we waited for the
Dragons to reappear so that we could put it into action. When they
emerged, both men were each carrying two carton’s in their arms.
Neither of them suspected that we were there.
    I counted down from three on my fingers.
When my pointer finger disappeared into my fist, Christina and I
charged around the corner.
    Just as the two were bent over to set the
cartons on the tailgate, Christina grabbed Alec, and I went for the
larger man whose name we hadn’t heard yet. My beautiful and
fearless girlfriend had a knife drawn, its blade pressed against
the tender flesh of the man’s neck.
    In an instant, I had the man in the black
hoodie in a headlock, the barrel of my gun poking into his side.
“Don’t move,” I whispered, “Unless you want to die.”
    “Wha … what do you want?” Alec
stammered.
    Christina pushed him a few steps until his
hip was against the tailgate. “Shut up,” she snapped. “We ask the
questions.”
    The big man struggled beneath my grip. As he
fought against me, I felt