Chapter 17The candy-colored lights of the Strip reflecting off the night sky brought a wry smile to Edmund’s face as he climbed back into his car. Whatever Mathias and Darby were doing at the moment was likely to be more interesting than his attempts to track through the seedier part of the Vegas vampire community. For whatever personal, inane reason, Mathias didn’t want to go out with her, and after spending the day in bed with Edmund talking about the future and the past and how she fit into both of those, Darby was determined to try and establish some sort of non-rancorous relationship with Mathias. The result was bound to be electric. He wished he could be there to witness it.
Instead, he was trawling through narrow streets, watching prostitutes try to pick up work to last them the ni
