Aurora North and the Vampire Vixens by Jordaina Sydney Robinson

Author:Jordaina Sydney Robinson [Robinson, Jordaina Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781386192688
Published: 2018-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

12

“You okay?” I asked Jake.

We were sitting on a low wall outside the building watching the police wander around. We were inside the cordoned-off area of the campus, waiting for the go-ahead from Trank so we could leave. All of the drama students who’d scarpered earlier were back and I was pretty sure Carly was trying to get my attention. At least they’d be easy to question now.

After checking Seraphina’s pulse to make sure she was dead, I’d called Trank and, to his credit, he’d accepted the news with the barest minimum of swear words. He advised me how to secure the scene, since a university campus was a little different from a deserted back alleyway, and then I’d left Jake outside and nipped back in to take a few pictures of the scene. We’d waited outside the drama building until he showed up a short while later with a slew of uniforms and the police campus liaison officer in tow.

Trank had questioned us, the police campus liaison officer had questioned us, the constables had taken our statements, and now we were just waiting for them to let us go.

“Hey.” I nudged Jake with my shoulder. “Are you okay? Do you want me to take you home?”

“No, I’m good.” He stared down at the blood on the side of his canvas shoes. “I keep thinking that we only saw her yesterday. Yesterday.” He was silent for a long moment. “Did you see the puncture wounds on her neck?”

“Saw them. Took pictures of them when you went outside.”

“This was our vampire killers. The group from the members’ club.” It wasn’t a question. “This is where they came after digging up that girl last night. If only we’d followed them we might have been able to stop them.”

“Think about that, Jake.” I tapped him on the knee to get his attention before his guilty imagination took full control of his brain. “Why would they come here? Why would they come all the way across the city to murder a drama lecturer? On campus. In her office. It’s hardly opportunistic, is it? All of them traipsing across campus? Not exactly inconspicuous. I’m sure, if it had been them, they’d have passed much better feeding options on their way. And remember the girl they dug up? She drank that supposed blood bag so she wasn’t hungry.”

“Maybe the others were, though,” he suggested. “And maybe they thought Seraphina was connected to Kitty somehow. Kitty went to this uni—Seraphina teaches here. Maybe Kitty knew about them and they thought she’d told Seraphina so they were just tying up loose ends. It looked like whoever murdered Seraphina slapped her around first. Black eye, broken nose. Maybe they were trying to find out what she knew.”

“Okay, look, Kitty was a drama student so she probably knew Seraphina in some capacity, yes. Maybe Seraphina was her tutor and Kitty confided in her the same information that got Kitty killed. Whether it was that they were real vamps, or that it was a con.

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