The Invoker: A Lawson Vampire Novel 2 (The Lawson Vampire Series)

by Jon F. Merz

  I didn’t say anything. I just had to reach the damned cooler.

  She stood, massaging her throat. “Almost had me.”

  Ten feet from the cooler.

  “I ought to kill you the way I did the other Fixer.”

  Eight feet.

  “I ought to.”

  Six feet.

  “But I won’t.”

  Four feet. Almost within…reach.

  “Good-bye, Lawson.”

  I felt the plastic under my hand and tore the lid off. I felt the gun a second later and tore it out, flipping over on the sand, searching for a target.

  But she was gone.

  She’d disappeared.

  Right in front of me.

  Almost like she didn’t even exist at all.

  And if it wasn’t for my swollen and bruised scrotum, I might have almost believed she’d been a ghost.

  A ghost that had almost killed me.

  The Invoker

  Copyright © 2002 Jon F. Merz

  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

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