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CHAPTER NINE

(Ryder)

As the office door closed behind the vampire whose mind I’d just scanned, I turned to Saht have found our culprit He ht have looked cool and composed, but his mind wasn’t so calm”

“It definitely isn’t hih?” asked Jared

“Definitely not”

“Dion is in our bad books after all that shit with Lexi, so it could be just that he was nervous being around me and Sam”

“Probably” Sam reached over to the phone and lifted the receiver She pressed a button on the keypad and then said, “Fletch, send the next vamp on the list in, please”

“Derek’s not here yet, luv,” Fletcher responded from his desk outside the office

Her ht Send in one of the others” She looked up at Jared “Derek had better be here by the time Ryder is done with this next one”

But Derek didn’t show, and Fletcher hadn’t been able to get hold of him

Sam licked her front teeth “Apparently, Derek thinks he’s special and doesn’t have to be here on time”

“I’ll bring his lazy ass here myself,” said Jared, who then teleported out of the office

I raised a brow at Saht be our boy?”

“It’s possible He’s never done anything to make me consider him a suspect But then, he wouldn’t, would he?”

He didn’t seem an obvious suspect toaround the rainforest infecting animals with bloodlust Hismy woman

Well Coop wasn’t dating my woman anymore And she was officiallyto me yet, but I was the only one who had any clai she’d assured ht

I glanced at the clock She was probably on her lunch break right now and—

Jared returned, his jaw hard “Derek wasn’t home I teleported into his apartment He definitely isn’t there, and he didn’t pack any of his things It doesn’t look like he up and left, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t He could be our boy”

Sam pushed out of her seat “We’ll have to send people out to find him”

“Let me be one of them,” I said “I can track him”

She nodded “All right” Again, she lifted the phone receiver and spoke into it “Fletch, so has come up Send the others home, tell them we’ll pick this up later”