Vampire's Kiss

NEVER LET DOWN YOUR GUARD....

"Acari Drew." A mellow voice spoke from behind me.

Oh God. Too late, I noticed the shadow that had fallen on me. My skin rippled with goose bumps, as if a chill breeze were at my back instead of a vampire.

I looked over my shoulder and had to force myself not to startle when I saw how close Alcántara had managed to come behind me. Stupid. Things like that could get a girl killed in my world.

He stood there, tall but not towering, with bottomless dark eyes and smooth black hair that brushed the collar of his black leather jacket. He looked like a beautiful indie rocker... carved out of marble.

I hopped to my feet as reverently as one could when wearing damp, sand-encrusted gym shorts. It struck me that all the other Acari had grown quiet around me, and even Tracer Otto was standing in respectful silence. They knew as well as I did how the sudden appearance of a vampire could mean somebody's imminent evisceration. I only hoped it wouldn't be mine.

Also in The Watchers series:
Isle of Night
Vampire's Kiss
Blood Fever
The Keep
Dark Craving
Reckoning