Chapter 1
A Vampire, A Werewolf, A Rachasa and a Human Walk Into A Bar…
“What the hell do you mean, you haven’t seen her in three months?” Christian demanded.
“Just what I said,” Jeremiah answered. “She claimed there was a problem in Colorado, and I haven’t seen her since.”
“Christian, I already told him it was bullshit,” Stephen Buja interrupted as he walked a step behind the two handsome monsters.
Christian was not so much bothered by the idea that Jeremiah was letting himself be taken advantage of, or ‘played’ as the kids say. As far as Christian saw it, that was already an established dynamic in the relationship Jeremiah shared with Lily, the Werewolf Queen. What bothered him was the fact that he had seen Jeremiah several times within the queen’s three-month absence and this was the first Christian was hearing of it.
“Your love life aside, Lily being missing is a serious issue,” Christian chided. “You guys are supposed to be providing leadership to the werewolf packs, not vacationing in Colorado.”
“Dude! People are going to hear you!” Jeremiah hissed, noting the people bustling all around them in the crowded streets of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen area.
“No one on this street is listening to me,” Christian dismissed. “And even if they were, I don’t care at the moment. I’m taking serious heat for the Werewolf Rehabilitation Project. And I still can’t believe I have to do this fuckin’ interview tomorrow.”
Earlier that night, before deciding where he and Jeremiah were taking Stephen for his twenty-eighth birthday, Christian had lamented about having to appear onVampire’s Weekly. The talk show, broadcasted over an encoded and strenuously password protected website, was a product of the vampire nation’s newfound interest in availing itself to Internet usage. Ironically, the inspiration for the building of an Internet based television network for vampires had been drawn from Stephen Buja’s successful use of that very technology during The Battle in Osaka. Jackson Witherspoon, a traditional conservative and rabid supporter of the old vampire regime under Emmanuel, hosted this show that Christian was expected to appear on. While many vampires had witnessed the events that took place in Japan on their computer screens and walked away feeling that the right side h