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"I suppose ant to look for so that seems out of the ordinary around that tiently question Claudia As I flipped through, her voice echoed softly through the roo over o, starting on Monday Nothing seemed odd there Nor on Tuesday But Wednesday there was apenciled in between two and three pe
"V & J? Van and Jaycee?" The words burst out of myat Cay Exchange Fuck We should have checked that place out before I kneas trouble fron And I’ll bet…we suspected they had so to do with it" She looked up as Claudia leaned forward
Claudia started "Yes, that was the place he roup of…vampires? No…not vaathered our things to leave, taking the appoint We’d suspected Van and Jaycee were involved with the club--but we’d gotten sidetracked after we shut down the Koyanni the first tiout for the ical set--namely sorcerers It wouldn’t surprise roups weren’t all that different Which ht just point to a connection between the pair and Telazhar
Thanking Claudia, we exited back to the prowl car All I could think of was I wanted this over and soon But a creeping feeling in the back ofwe had a bumpy ride ahead of us
Chapter 6
Back in the fresh air, which hung heavy with the scents of rain dripping fro on the swing set
"They have no father now," Ca her lip "But at least they knew he loved the about our own father "True…but not all fathers can show their feelings in the right way They’ll be okay" I touched her ar mother Claudia will continue to run the hotel She won’t let Exo’s dreaer seat It was a text e from Tim Winthrop Tim--aka Cleo Blanco, female impersonator turned computer whiz--ran the website for the Supe Cohed
"People have been overwhel what to do now And a few of thewhere it’s going to be held now"
"Callous idiots, worried about a dance after what happened" Camille leaned forward between the front seats, as far as the bulletproof glass would allow "Frostling was right We need to call an eh the phone trees We don’t want these freaks setting off a bo"
"I don’t knohy they didn’t wait till the actual dance" I pondered the thought and the more I poked at it, the more it botheredinto the right-turn lane We were headed to Marion’s café next
"Why not wait until the dance? Why set off the bomb with only a handful of victims inside? Wait a feeeks and they could have had a lot more casualties It doesn’tafter volu to instill fear instead?" Chase pulled into the parking lot to the side of the Supe-Urban Café "Let’s run with the thought that they weren’t just looking to kill Supes…what else could they want?"
"To stir up unrest?" Caht about it for a moment "What about to throw suspicion on somebody else? To start a hate war between the FBHs and the Supes?"
"But there was clear evidence of who created it--wouldn’t they take the trouble to hide the canya if they were trying to bring it on between the FBHs and us?" Camille shook her head "There has to be nize the snized the scent And that talishts, that metal should have melted in the fire"
"You have a point there Thento drive a schism even deeper between the FBHs and the Supes But why?" Caot to find theain"
Chase cleared his throat "Yeah Tell h "I have soot the results of my tests from the Triple Threat Aeval su"
"And?" We were all ears Ever since Chase had been given the Nectar of Life, he’d been changing Powers that had been lying latent within hi flashes of what he ht become, but nobody was quite sure what the potion had done to hirudgingly agreed to test hi on below the surface
As he parked the car, then turned off the ignition, his hand seemed to shake for aquite like it Most humans, when they drink the Nectar of Life, pretty much just stay the way they are only…a little stretched out as the years go by They looked into my past--I don’t kno, so don’t ask--and Aeval said that I don’t have Fae in reat-great-and-so-on grandrandfather as part elf It’s not h to set off ers "I knew it had to be solinature, but I kneasn’t Fae But thatto Aeval, is that I’irlfriend And to Queen Asteria They were able to trace it"
As Cah It seemed so ridiculous…our detective, as so very human, was related to the Elfin Queen
"That’s why you have been having these bursts of power coe" Camille nodded as if she’d justto be severely fucked with due to the fact that you areto be in the same position, relatively, to my sisters and me--powers amok because of the mixed blood"
"That’s pretty e is terribly diluted--so much that I wouldn’t ever think to call h that the Nectar of Life set things off She couldn’t tell me exactly what those powers are, except that I’ll havewith the astral plane or with the voice Language, commands, co areas"
He stared up at the sky The clouds were thick, proone, noere in the throes of the days of icy rain Everything felt waterlogged: the ground spongy, the very air laden with o from here," he said softly