Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust by Jessica Dalton (7 ebook reader txt) 📖

I was extremely rude and arrogant. I will never again behave so badly towards you.” he smiled at me.

“I would appreciate that Mircea, thank you. Now I think we can get back to business.” I said looking at the clock in the corner of Dimitri’s study. Just two hours now till my 21st birthday.

“yes of course, of course.” Mircea said when he realised that both Dimitri and I were looking expectantly at him.

“firstly, congratulations Phoenix, word has spread through the Vampire community throughout the whole of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Europe of your ruthless reputation. Rogues now quake in their boots and the mere mention of the Kings new Enforcer.”

“really? I have only been the Enforcer a month.” I asked in wonder.

“yes but you have killed so many rogues that even my Balaur are impressed.”

I felt so proud of myself that I found myself smiling widely at both Mircea and Dimitri.

“Secondly,” Mircea continued after smiling back at me, “word of your presence in the city has caused most of the rogues to flee from Canada and into New York and further south. You will need to start hunting them there soon.”

I looked at Dimitri and nodded. It would mean I may have to leave him for a while, it could take months though to kill them all and even then the rogues that were bound to escape would travel even further south and I would have to chase them.

I felt so much sadness wash over me as I continued to look at Dimitri. I realised I didn’t want to leave him.

***I‘ll finally be able to see how far this mind to mind thing goes, do you think we‘ll still be able to talk mentally when you’re here and I am in New York? *** I asked him lightly with a smile on my face.

***I can assure you Ashes, you can‘t get rid of me that easily. We‘ll be talking all the time.***

I barked out a laugh and rolled my eyes.

“of course I won‘t be able to get rid of you that easily.” I said out loud. “you‘ll be sitting on your throne here while I‘m traipsing the roads of New York and you‘ll still be telling me what to do.”

“its what I do best Ashes, how can you fault me for that?” Dimitri’s eyes were dancing. And I was grinning at him.

“thirdly we are having problems in Inishowen it seems we have an organised group of rogues, we will have to go there soon if we are to control the situation.”

“Inishowen?” I squeaked. “As in Ireland? As in Co Donegal? That Inishowen?”

Dimitri spoke at the same time that I did. “organised Rogues that is unheard….” but he trailed off as he caught my eye and undoubtedly saw the panic in them. I saw it when he realised what I was so worked up about.

Mircea was staring at me in puzzlement as he spoke. “Yes Inishowen in Co. Donegal.”

I stood up abruptly and started to pace, “what is the situation there. I need all the details.”

“but surely New York is more in need of your attentions right now.”

“Give. Me. The. Details. Now. Mircea.” my voice shaking with anger.

Mircea frowned at me but nodded his head anyway. “very well. Reports have come back that at the moment there is a Rogue in Inishowen who is leading other rogues, instructing them, giving them orders, they call him Lord Morrighan, and in return he allows them to kill as many Humans as they like and he will cover up the deaths so as not to draw attention to themselves.”

“how does he cover the deaths up?” I asked.

“car accidents, diving and surfing accidents, those seem the most popular….”

“we leave tomorrow afternoon for Ireland.” I said while looking at Dimitri. He nodded.

***I‘m coming with you Ashes. I was going to have to go in the next week or so with Mircea, but this is personal to both you and me. Its your home and a rogue has given himself the title of Lord, a title I did not give to him.***

“Fine by me Dimitri.”

All of a sudden there were was a lot of noise coming from the front entrance.

“that will be the Balaur” Mircea said as I heard the sound of a lot of vampires climbed the stairs towards us.

I stood as the door opened and about fifty or more Vampires filed into the room, as soon as the door closed behind them the black clad vamps knelt before us with their heads bowed and as one spoke.

“Our Liege, we are here to serve you.” I felt the fine hair on my arms stand to attention.

They all stood as one when Dimitri spoke. “welcome my loyal servants.”

Again as one they turned to me and bowed there heads. “Master we are here to do your biding.”

Before Mircea of Dimitri could speak I took a step towards the Balaur who freaked me out by just acting like robots.

“you will leave for New York tomorrow night and start to rid the city of rogues. I will join you when I have finished in Ireland.”

Again they all reacted as one and nodded . “yes Master.” I flinched at being called me Master but other wise ignored it. “now though you will go into the city and patrol. Make sure you don‘t leave any rogues behind.” I then turned to Dimitri and smiled. “you and I my dear King are going out clubbing while the Balaur so kindly patrol for us.”

“but…” Mircea started to say with a deep frown as he looked from me to Dimitri.

Dimitri smiled at me as I made my way through the Balaur and towards the door.

“be ready to leave in half an hour Dimitri.” I called over my shoulder to him.

***I‘ll race you*** Dimitri chuckled.

***your on!***

I ran all the way to my room and straight to my wardrobe to find something to wear. I paused when I saw from the corner of my eye that there was a parcel on my bed, not a parcel, two parcels. I danced over to my bed and sat down. I lifted the biggest parcel, it had a redirected stamp on it. Someone had collected my post for me at the post office today. I smiled as I recognised the two different sets of handwriting on the two parcels and the amount of envelopes that were under the parcels.

The largest parcel was from Declan and the other parcel was from Kevin. I opened Declan’s parcel first deciding to open my brothers parcel second. A huge grin spread across my face as I pulled the beautiful material out of the box. A note fell onto my lap, it had Declan’s untidy writing all over it.

Happy 21st Phoenix!!!
I hope you wear your present on your birthday!
Go out clubbing!!
And drive all the men crazy with your endless legs!
I am proud to say that I chose this dress myself and might I add you will look divine in it!!
All my Love
your good friend
Declan.
xxx

I pulled the dress out fully and caught my breath as the material fell into place. The colour was so dark blue that it almost looked black, the material was so fine and soft that I could tell straight away that it was designer. I quickly stripped out of my clothes and stepped into the dress. It fit like a glove. I looked at myself in the full length mirror, and once again caught my breath. The neckline scooped so low that I wouldn’t have been able to wear a bra even if I had left one on. The dress showed my cleavage to their full advantage and then the skits just fell a couple of inches above my knees. The dress was backless with the rest of the material just sitting on the top of my bum. Feeling a bit nervous and the amount of skin on show I moved around a bit to make sure that I was decent. The dress never once moved. Definitely designer. I smiled. My pale skin seemed to glow and I looked even more like a vampire with the dark material sitting against my skin.
I quickly pinned my curls up and only let a couple fall free around my face. Then I grabbed my make-up bag and contemplated what to do with my face. My completion was already perfect so I wouldn’t put anything on my face. I decided on just mascara, eye liner, eye shadow and lipstick. I rimmed my eyes with a dark brown eyeliner, already making my eyes pop even more, then I used dark greys and silvers to give my eyes the smoky effect then decided to leave the mascara off, my eye lashes were already long, thick and dark enough. Then I added a deep red lipstick and I was done.

I looked back at the bed and saw the parcel from Kevin. Of course I knew what would be in there. And as soon as I opened the parcel I knew I was right. Shoes. Beautiful I thought with a smile I slipped them on and marvelled and how well they went with my dress. Who would have guessed that Declan and Kevin could be so fashionable.

Again a note was inside the box this time with my brothers neat handwriting leaving me a message.

My Dearest Ashes,
I missed you at my birthday last week.
I miss you every day but I am glad you are happy over there in Canada
Make sure you dance until you drop in these fab heels on your birthday!
I will never forgive you if you just sit in on your 21st!!
Love you with all my heart
Your favourite brother
Kevin
xxx

The shoes had a three inch silver heel, but were the same colour as the dress and were made of satin.

I looked at myself in the mirror and froze in shock when I saw the beautiful women looking back, this women could not be me could it? She was just so stunning and mysterious looking, even I would mistake myself for a vampire.

I shook myself and looked at my bedside clock, I had five minutes to get to the front door.

I grabbed a thigh holster and inserted a knife into it and then I grabbed my leather jacked and slipped my Wesson into the secure inside pocket made for it. Putting my wallet into the other inside pocket I made my way down the stairs with only minutes to spare.

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If you see these *** around speech then that means that Dimitri and Phoenix are talking mind to mind***
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Chapter 11

As I walked down the stairs I could hear a female voice, it was coming from the front parlour, and then I could hear the low murmurs of Dimitri’s voice answering the female. Quickly I made sure my mental wall was closed up tight as I