My Love Forever (The Night Movers Vampire Series Book 1) by Helen Bright

searching around for another ten minutes without success I went straight back find Josh, Nik and Sergei.

Chapter 16
    Josh
    Alex arrived at my cottage about twenty minutes after I had hung up the phone, and I could tell he wasn’t the same guy that had left here earlier tonight to go to Julia and the rest of the ladies from work.
    Since his night with Julia, he had a real spring to his step, sort of like he had a purpose in life, but now he was subdued and I knew that whatever had occurred tonight had really got to him.
    “Did you pick up any trace of who was watching you,” I asked already knowing the answer due to his behaviour just now. He was pacing the floor and tapping his lip with his thumb, obviously trying to make sense of what had occurred.
    “I picked up nothing, but I do think it was a vampire. The speed in which they disappeared ruled out human. The odd thing was I sensed a familiarity but for the life of me I can’t place them.”
    “Perhaps you are sensing danger all around because of your female. This Julia I am hearing of, maybe you worry she is going to leave you for sexy Russian vampire named Sergei,” said the irritating Russian.
    “Fuck off Sergei,” replied Alex.
    Now wasn’t the time to rile Alex up. He was strung too tight.
    “Have you had any blood recently? If there is some sort of threat out there you need to make sure you are alert and firing on all cylinders, so it might be best if you had a bag of blood before you picked them up.”
    “The last blood I had was Julia’s,” he replied, a smile now appearing on his face.
    Good. I don’t like seeing my best friend and brother so on edge.
    In truth I was really happy that Alex was finally finding his special someone. His mate, and I wished him all the luck in the world at this time. As far as I was concerned I owed this man my life, and if there was a threat out there I would do my best to make that threat disappear.
    “Josh told us about Maggie’s cock talk,” said Nik.
    “It was more vibrator talk,” Alex replied.
    “Fake or not it’s still cock talk and I’ve got to say it doesn’t bode well for you if they’ve started it before the drinks are flowing.”
    “Well you and Sergei are going to the Red Lion later so you must want to hear it. Oh and Nik wait until you see Gina.”
    “Why, what she done?”
    “I’m not going to say too much, just that she looks really different, and she had Dan Saunders nearly tripping over his tongue on the minibus.”
    “She wouldn’t fucking look at Dan, not when she sees me anyway.” Nik joked. But Nik was easy to read and I could see he was itching to get to Gina.
    “We should go now to see my Gina,” said Sergei.
    He thought the world of Gina and they tended to have lots of playful banter and heated discussions, which drove everyone mad. Nik and Sergei were great friends and Nik knew that Sergei would never make a move on Gina, so he allowed him to be near her. I don’t think that would happen with anyone else.
    “They have another hour before I pick them up and bring them back to Barrowfield. Have you let the staff at the Red Lion know they are going in tonight?“  Alex asked.
    “Yes they know they are coming in.”
    I owned the Red Lion and several other small businesses around Barrowfield and Rothley. If it was left up to me I would buy the whole place, but we were still expanding Night Movers, and I was happy just to purchase the odd home or business every now and again.
    The Pub was doing really well considering that a lot went out of business during the recession. Tonight there was a disco with karaoke and we had a live band every Saturday. The pub was also known for its afterhours lock ins, but this tended to happen less and less over the years. I trusted my staff to decide when to do it. No one in the village knew I owned the pub, just a few of the bar staff, as well as Alex, Nik and Gina and I wanted to keep it that way.
    “I’m just going to drop these things off at