A Cat's Chance in Hell by Hannaford Sharon

Author:Hannaford, Sharon [Hannaford, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

With that last question, Gabi knew she’d been right earlier. The woman Gregory was talking about must have been the donor for Julius’s ‘dinner’. While Gabi may have initially felt fear or revulsion when she realised what he’d been up to, now there was no horror, no distaste, only annoyance, and another unfamiliar emotion she hoped against hope wasn’t jealousy. She decided that this issue would have to wait until they’d cleared up a few others.

“No, thank you,” he said addressing Gregory’s questions, “you can take her home now. We’ll be fine.”

Gregory departed in a hurry, clearly pleased to be leaving the room.

Alexander let out an amused chuckle. “Poor Gregory,” he chortled, “You really are unkind to him Julius.”

“I am?” Julius asked mildly, “In what way?” He moved to join them, leaning back against one of the pool tables facing the other men but positioning himself where he could still see Gabi’s face. She knew that to humans it would appear she had a very good poker face, but it was more than possible that he noticed every tiny twitch of muscle, every tightening of her jaw, every change in the dilation of her pupils, her breathing and her heart beat. She schooled herself not to betray any of her internal disquiet.

“You just brought the big, scary bogey monster and her Werewolf sidekick into his domain, and told him they are to be protected at all costs.” Alexander stopped chuckling long enough to take a sip of his bourbon. “He’s going to walk out and kiss the sun one of these days, and then where will you be?”

“He wouldn’t dare.” Julius disagreed shortly.

“Hey,” Kyle said in an injured tone, “since when did I become the sidekick?”

“Since your name isn’t Angeli Morte” answered Alexander sardonically.

“True.” Kyle conceded. “To Hellcat,” he raised his beer in her direction, “bogey monster to Vampires everywhere.”

“Hellcat,” Alexander repeated, “I like that. It suits her better than ‘Angeli Morte. To Hellcat.” He toasted as well, raising his glass and downing the rest of his whiskey.

“Drunken idiots,” Gabi muttered, picking up a handful of chocolate truffles and throwing them at Kyle.

He caught most of them and shoved them in his mouth, munching cheerfully before washing them down with beer.

“Ugh!” Gabi pulled a revolted face at him.

“I have a question,” Gabi declared, looking pensively at Julius.

“Only one?”

“For now,” she replied. “Will you answer me honestly?”

“As honestly as I can.”

“Who is your informant in the Society?”

“Ah,” he said, apparently taken quite by surprise by the sudden change in subject. He paused, deliberating his answer. “I’m afraid I will have to get your assurance that punitive action won’t be taken against them before I divulge that information.”

“We can’t allow the people close to us to betray our trust in them without some kind of disciplinary action. What if that same person is also supplying information to other sources? Like Danté for instance?”

“I understand your viewpoint, but I’m afraid I’m not telling you anything unless I know they won’t be harmed.” Julius was unmoving.

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