Nicole Anderson

Nicole Anderson, a character in the Bloodbound series, was the Vice President of the Operations at Raines Corp. She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Nicole has fair skin, gray eyes, medium-blonde toned hair and she usually keeps a stoic facial expression- giving her a stern appearance. She has a professional and simplistic corporate style. Nicole keeps her hair away from her face: pulled back into a tight low chignon bun. Her attire is a simple, sleeveless, swan-neckline, black dress and she doesn’t wear any accessories. It is mentioned that she wears heels with her outfit.

Personality
Nicole is very strict during business and has doubts about your capabilities. However, she is seen to be extremely smart as she was able to manage the company for Adrian. She usually keeps herself calm and collected at work but will express her feelings of disapproval.

Nicole is also seen to be extremely cunning as she was in charge of espionage before betraying Adrian and stealing the serum from him.

Her desire to become immortal is what led to her betrayal. Adrian describes her as being similar to Vega in that she is ambitious but lacks any moral compass. With the right motive, Nicole has no problem with breaking company policy. She has committed revealing company secrets and giving competitors unauthorized access to the building. Nicole also has no qualms in breaking both American (human) laws as well as council laws. Her crimes would include: Criminal threatening/intimidation, accessory to attempted armed robbery, accessory to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal conspiracy to commit murder, and multiple accounts of attempted murder.

Her council crimes would include accessory to unauthorized turnings and conspiracy against a council member.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The Interview
 * Chapter 2: The Vampire
 * Chapter 5: The Coffin
 * Chapter 6: The Senator
 * Chapter 8: The Serum
 * Chapter 9: The Ball
 * Chapter 12: The Tribunal
 * Chapter 13: The Dungeon
 * Chapter 14: The Cabin
 * Chapter 15: The Showdown

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: The Calm (Determinant)
 * Chapter 2: The Bloodkeeper (Determinant)
 * Chapter 3: The Collector (Determinant)
 * Chapter 4: The Collected (Determinant)

Adrian Raines
Nicole works for Adrian as Vice President and is aware of him being a vampire. They don’t always agree with each other, such as the employment of your character. She is fine with Adrian drinking blood from her. Adrian initially sees her as a trustworthy person. He mentions to your character that Nicole wants to him to turn her into a vampire, and that while he views her as “a loyal employee and friend”, he doesn’t think she has the “restraint” necessary to be a part of his clan. Adrian doesn’t expect Nicole to take hard feelings of him turning Lily but not her. He states that “underneath it, she’s a reasonable person. She’ll understand this was a matter of life and death for Lily.” This trust in her makes the reveal in Book 1, Chapter 13, that she betrayed Adrian and Your Character surprising to him. She betrayed them by giving them away to Vega and taking Adrian's serum. Nicole felt that every day he refused to turn her, the possibility of her having what she truly wants (immortality) dwindled a little bit more. In Book 1, Chapter 14, she reveals that when your character stepped into the picture and convinced him to turn Lily, she finally saw Adrian for what she thought he really was: another shallow and weak man, easily manipulated by a pretty face.

Your Character
She is skeptical of you, but you are employed anyway. When you see Adrian drinking blood from her, she gets concerned and suggests to Adrian that they should stop her from getting away. In Book 1, Chapter 14, she believes that Your Character manipulated Adrian into turning Lily, whom she calls Your Idiot friend. She believes that You have led him down one bad road after another.

Adam Vega
After Lily was turned into a Vampire to save her life, Nicole realized Adrian never wanted to turn her so she made a deal with senator Adam Vega. Nicole alerted Vega about the existence of a top secret serum that allows Vampires to walk in the sun. Vega promised to turn Nicole in exchange for the serum. Together, they conspired to frame Adrian as the culprit of the unauthorized Turnings and the feral attacks in New York City. Nicole developed a liking for Vega to the point where she wanted to be Turned by him specifically, admiring him in a way, and believing that he was the only one who understood her and had the guts to break the Pact.

Langdon Kavinsky
If you didn't go after her in the premium scene of Book 1, she will reappear in Book 2, Chapter 3. She is working for Langdon Kavinsky now. She also appears if you gave her one more chance in the premium scene and seems to show some remorse for working with Kavinsky.

Fate
In Book 1, Chapter 15, during the battle with Nicole and Adam Vega, if you select the premium choice of not allowing Nicole to escape, Your Character is given the option to either kill Nicole, capture her, or give her one more chance to make things right by leaving forever. It is noted that whatever the player decides to do will have subsequent effects in Book 2. If the player decides to let Nicole go, she simply runs into the woods and disappears.

If the player decides to kill Nicole, she and Your Character engage in a rough fight before Your Character launches an arrow directly at Nicole's head, killing her almost instantly. If the player decides to capture Nicole they will still engage in battle but Your Character will tell Nicole she doesn’t believe she deserves to be the sole decider of her fate and that she deserves a trial before the council like Adrian was and then knock her unconscious by beating her on the back of head with a flashlight. She’ll later be tied up by the clanless to keep her from escaping.

In Book 2, Chapter 1, six months after the battle, if you killed her in Book 1, you suffer from PTSD from seeing her ghost. If you choose to incarcerate her, according to Jax Matsuo, he said that she had been rambling off about "getting her and Jax and to mark her words". Jax even states that she doesn't deserve any sympathy knowing what she is like.

Trivia

 * She shares the same forename as Bookish Sister's default name from the Rules of Engagement series.
 * The name Nicole is of Greek origin and means "victory of the people". It's the female French variant of the name Nicholas.
 * The surname Anderson is of English and Nordic origin, which means "child of Andrew". The name Andrew is of English and Greek origin, which means: Man, manly, strong, courageous, brave, warrior.