Bad Seed by Gareth Vaughn

Author:Gareth Vaughn [Vaughn, Gareth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2018-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“Closed,” said Sean when he looked. “The place has hours this weekend, though.”

“We’ll go to BigFroots and get you a health sludge tomorrow then,” said Dane, trying not to think about what might be in something like that. Not tequila, that was for sure. Health sludge was overrated.

Sean sighed and pocketed his phone, then took a step forward and frowned into the bowl of ash. Ned had fucked off, probably to get away from more of Sean’s questions, and Dane couldn’t blame him.

“Seriously? He drew boobs?”

Dane laughed and left them there. Sean sighed again.

“How old is he?”

“A hundred, two hundred, I don’t know.”

“You could look at the dates on his stone.”

“The point is he’s funny,” said Dane, moving to his weapons wall to grab a few smaller items. He had gear at his own home, but nothing stashed away at Sean’s yet. Shit, he was thinking in yets.

“And completely disrespectful. Those are someone’s ashes.” Sean paused. “Well, some of them are.”

“She tried to kill you and you’re defending her de-souled cremains? Loosen up, professor. Besides, I figure if anyone has a right to toy with the dead it’s probably another dead person.”

“I’m bringing your tablet,” said Sean, changing the subject. “In case we want to look anything up. BigFroot Smoothies sounds suspicious to me.”

“Sure it does. You know we live in a place called Bleu Falls, right?”

“It’s not suspicious, Dane. Weird, all right. Pretty sure it was originally called Blue Falls—nice, pretty waterfalls a little outside of town, we should go sometime, it’s romantic—but at some point the spelling was switched.”

“Yeah, well, it’s cheesy now and therefore suspicious. And you can take any romantic ideas you have and shove them up your ass.”

“I’d rather have you up my ass. You finished yet? I’m guessing this means you don’t want me to cook you food when we get to my place.”

“I don’t do salads.” Dane considered bringing additional bullets, then put them back. What the hell was going to happen at the professor’s cute little house in a boring middle class neighborhood, anyway? He figured the worst that happened there was someone mowing their lawn too early in the morning or putting their garbage out a day ahead.

“I was planning on chili, but we can pick you up a frozen burger from someplace on the way.”

“Screw you, I eat chili,” said Dane. He hauled his duffle bag up and motioned Sean to the stairs. When he wasn’t around he kept his Lair locked; as he turned the key, Sean went out to his car.

“Are you…?” asked Winter, and when Dane turned he saw she was eyeing his duffle bag. She blinked several times.

“Going out?”

“With the professor?” She mouthed the last word. “Overnight? Together?”

“I’m not coming back, no. You know how to shut the place down?”

“Yeah,” said Winter, but didn’t ask any more directly whether Dane and the professor were fucking. It was just as well—she was still pretty young and Dane figured thinking about her teachers having a sex life was a bit much.

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