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Authors: Arvin Loudermilk
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with you for as long as you need me to stay. I’m here for you. I’ve got money and some decent contacts in the vamp community. We can find a blood source there, I’m almost certain.”
The car kept rolling along. “I don’t need your money, but thank you.”
“I’m not sure if you realize this,” he said, “but when you were declared dead, your account with the credit union was emptied out and passed on to your brother. There’s nothing left.”
“That’s not where I kept my money, not most of it at least.”
“You had other money?”
“Yeah, my inheritance from my father. I distributed it to separate offshore accounts, under a handful of assumed names.”
“Why in the world would you do that?”
“Because a paranoid weirdo raised me to be a paranoid weirdo.”
“How much do you have altogether?”
“A lot.”
“How much? I’m curious.”
“4.25 million. But that was last time I checked. I never paid much attention. I lived off my take-home pay.”
Muttering, Mac repeated the 4.25 number several times. “So, you really don’t need my money.”
“No, not really.”
“The question is, do you need me?”
I reached forward and patted his hip. “Clearly, I do. I couldn’t have escaped without you.”
I felt the car slow and caught a glimpse of a beat-up gray van. It was time to make our big switch, to start all over again.
With access to stockpiles of cash, anyone with half a brain would’ve headed straight out of town. Hell, with a covert government agency bearing down on their ass, a truly intelligent person would leave the country—maybe even the hemisphere. Just so I’ve made everything perfectly clear. Someone out there crossed me, and I am the dumbest bitch who ever lived.
TO BE CONTINUED IN
THE UNDERGROUND
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Arvin Loudermilk hand wrote his first novel—a high school superhero fantasy based embarrassingly, and almost entirely, on himself—at the age of seventeen. A ‘sequel’ followed, but his focus soon turned to the intricacies of comic book writing.
In May of 1989, Arvin met Mike Iverson, a skilled illustrator and designer, and together they created the comic book series Vigil , a crime fiction epic featuring a gun-wielding vampire vigilante. Hot on the heels of a thousand pages of Vigil , they produced a sci-fi comic called Collective .
In the years that followed, Arvin became more and more convinced that Collective and Vigil would be natural fits in the world of prose. The development process to shift to this new creative platform was long and frustrating, but the end result, an assortment of novels and novellas, began its long-term publishing schedule with the 2012 release of In a Flash .
The car kept rolling along. “I don’t need your money, but thank you.”
“I’m not sure if you realize this,” he said, “but when you were declared dead, your account with the credit union was emptied out and passed on to your brother. There’s nothing left.”
“That’s not where I kept my money, not most of it at least.”
“You had other money?”
“Yeah, my inheritance from my father. I distributed it to separate offshore accounts, under a handful of assumed names.”
“Why in the world would you do that?”
“Because a paranoid weirdo raised me to be a paranoid weirdo.”
“How much do you have altogether?”
“A lot.”
“How much? I’m curious.”
“4.25 million. But that was last time I checked. I never paid much attention. I lived off my take-home pay.”
Muttering, Mac repeated the 4.25 number several times. “So, you really don’t need my money.”
“No, not really.”
“The question is, do you need me?”
I reached forward and patted his hip. “Clearly, I do. I couldn’t have escaped without you.”
I felt the car slow and caught a glimpse of a beat-up gray van. It was time to make our big switch, to start all over again.
With access to stockpiles of cash, anyone with half a brain would’ve headed straight out of town. Hell, with a covert government agency bearing down on their ass, a truly intelligent person would leave the country—maybe even the hemisphere. Just so I’ve made everything perfectly clear. Someone out there crossed me, and I am the dumbest bitch who ever lived.
TO BE CONTINUED IN
THE UNDERGROUND
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Arvin Loudermilk hand wrote his first novel—a high school superhero fantasy based embarrassingly, and almost entirely, on himself—at the age of seventeen. A ‘sequel’ followed, but his focus soon turned to the intricacies of comic book writing.
In May of 1989, Arvin met Mike Iverson, a skilled illustrator and designer, and together they created the comic book series Vigil , a crime fiction epic featuring a gun-wielding vampire vigilante. Hot on the heels of a thousand pages of Vigil , they produced a sci-fi comic called Collective .
In the years that followed, Arvin became more and more convinced that Collective and Vigil would be natural fits in the world of prose. The development process to shift to this new creative platform was long and frustrating, but the end result, an assortment of novels and novellas, began its long-term publishing schedule with the 2012 release of In a Flash .
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