A Flush of Diamonds (Magic City Chronicles Book 3) by TR Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:TR Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Cameron, TR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649714374
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Ruby had considered arguing, especially when she discovered that it involved a road trip. Still, she’d wondered in the back of her mind when the PDA would show up again, knowing the appearance of masked fighters who used magic would be like a beacon to them, and decided now was as good a time as any to deal with the agency. She spent the drive to Reno lying in the back seat of the government sedan, drifting in and out of sleep. Aches and pains announced themselves as her body stiffened from the stresses she’d put it through, and she longed for a hot bath and a long nap.

When they finally arrived in Reno, the agents parked the car in an underground garage, and they rode an elevator up to the lobby. She passed through a metal detector and felt the pull of the built-in anti-magic emitter trying to peel away her visual humanity. Fortunately, she was able to counter it by drawing upon her pendant. The sensor probably would’ve pierced the disguise of any magical without the innate illusion skills of the Mist Elves, but she was pretty sure by the lack of reaction that she’d made it through okay. The emitters commonly used in detection equipment were on the weak end of the scale, thankfully. Hopefully, I’ll still have enough juice to pull it off on the way out.

Another elevator ride, this time to an upper floor of the building, and they escorted her down a hallway dotted with offices on either side. It ended at a door, and beyond it sat Agent Paul Andrews. He nodded at their entrance, and the agents escorting her pushed her fairly gently into the chair that rested across the desk from him. They departed, closing the door behind them.

Ruby said, “How did your people get there so fast?”

Andrews chuckled. “They were already there. You didn’t think we’d forgotten about you and the strange stuff that’s been happening in Ely since you returned, did you?”

Again, she said, “Coincidence, not causality. Not that I’m not flattered by the attention, but why did I need to take a trip to freaking Reno? Wouldn’t a call have sufficed?”

He shook his head. “I want to look you in the eyes for this particular conversation.” He leaned forward in his chair and put his elbows on the desk as he stared at her. “Tell me what you know about the vigilantes that keep popping up in your city and today, in your casino.”

Ruby scowled. “Seriously? You’re worried about the people fighting to defend others rather than the hoodlums who broke in and tried to kill a bunch of our employees?” She attempted to inject some of the authority of a casino owner into the question, but his unchanged expression showed the tactic had no particular influence on him.

“I’m worried about magicals operating outside the law. That’s what we do here, you know.”

She countered, “I saw some of those. They were smashing things in the casino, setting fires, and injuring or killing the people we’d hired to protect the place.

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