DeLeina, Maya - Veil of Seduction [Ambrose Heights Vampires 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Maya DeLeina

learn, but if it doesn’t affect him directly at this moment, his attention span is very minimal. It’s like trying to teach a seven-year-old about the laws of physics,” Steffan blurted in realization. “Shit, I didn’t tell him about the house yet.”
    “Speaking of the house, let’s see what the progress is, shall we?” Eilian ran back to the foyer.
    Outside, daylight still burned.
    The blackout Roman shades safely shielded the sun’s harmful rays from seeping into Steffan’s home until the timer would send them open. Like Eilian, Steffan was curious if the new owner of 6417 Ambrose Heights Court had made his or her appearance.
    Eilian punched in his override code for that particular window, and the Roman shade sailed up the length of the window. Steffan stepped back into the dark recessed corner of the room as Eilian stood in the full sunlight and peered through the window.
    “I see the moving van,” Eilian reported. “I see Fat Eddie eating something in the cab of the van and talking on the cell phone. I don’t know if this is possible, but it looks like Fat Eddie got, well, fatter. It looks like they’re wrapping up. The plastic floor covering is being pulled out of the entry and being placed back in the van.”
    The house was situated first on the street and quite a distance away from Steffan’s house that sat in the bend of the crescent-shaped road. Eilian, however, could easily make out all of the details even from that distance.
    From the darkened corner of the room, Steffan began to speak, “The deed was transferred to an Anya DeVera—”
    Eilian interrupted Steffan, “Now that’s the part I still don’t get. Ryan sent the proposal to buy the house from us. Why wasn’t the house in his name? What name was it under again?”
    “Anise DeVera. From what the attorney said at closing, Ryan purchased the house under an associate’s name for business purposes. This must be her sister who inherited the house. We’ll have to talk to M.J. and her team to get the latest transgression reports and find out what happened to Anise. I never intended for a mortal to move into our neighborhood, one we didn’t already have an evaluation on.”
    “I know!” Eilian looked down at the floor, shaking his head. “I guess we will have to do some recon on her.”
    Steffan continued as he changed the subject, “Keep looking. Can you see if it’s an entire mortal family moving in? If we have to, it would be a much easier task to enthrall one and not an entire family. And one is much easier to have as a feeder, if the palate is right.”
    “Actually, it looks like this is her coming up in the SUV now. I don’t think she was here earlier.”
    Eilian watched as Anya got out of her vehicle and thanked Fat Eddie and his crew. He caught the detail of a most delicate symbol tattooed on the back of her right shoulder before she wrapped herself in a shawl. As the moving truck turned around and started back down the road, Anya went back to her vehicle.
    Eilian was delighted to report the news of what he saw next. “No children. No boyfriend. No ring on her finger. No dogs. Just a…a cello”
    “A cello?” Steffan smiled. “Nice.”
     
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    Anya’s long, black hair flowed all around her face in the wind.
    She raised her sunglasses and settled them on her head in effort to keep her hair back and out of her eyes. She took a moment to examine her surroundings.
    It was quiet. No cars. No children. No one was outside.
    In the distance, she could see the home high on the hill. It looked like a castle right out of the countryside somewhere in Europe. She walked to the edge of her driveway and tried squinting out a better detail of the home.
    Is that a formal English garden?
    “Oh, I gotta see this!” she said out loud.
    Anya hurried and placed the cello in the house, closed the door, and jumped back into her vehicle. She backed the SUV down the driveway and headed down the street.
    Anya pulled in front of the