Beggars, Sin, and Wine by JB Trepagnier

Author:JB Trepagnier [Trepagnier, JB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

New Eden Asylum stank of sadness and creepiness. This was the first Coalition facility they built in the United States. The attic was where they stuck all the extra creepy shit they didn’t want to throw away. I was a massive Doctor Who fan. The angel statues up here were just nasty even if you hadn’t seen Angels Take Manhattan. And I was still mad about that episode.

There were some saints up here, but none of them held a candle to my girl Saint Olga of Kyiv. This Russian tribe killed her husband, so she wiped them all out and used birds to do it. She got baptized, and they made her the patron saint of widows. She was just a human woman and didn’t have the same kinds of mate bond a supernatural would have, but I could appreciate she killed that many people for murdering her husband.

It was morally reprehensible that they had all these saint statues up here and Olga wasn’t represented.

But score one for the good guys because they had everything we needed to disable the angel tears up here. Thank the fucking goddess on a blessed Tuesday that shit wasn’t in the basement. The chances of us getting down there were pretty slim and even if we managed, we’d probably blow our cover if we got that close to our mate in her half-starved state.

I mean, I’d personally kill anyone down there and Pax and Cas were probably ‘Girl, same’ about that.

Some little helper gremlin had cleared a path among the dusty statues and boxes all the way to the giant diffuser. Those things were terrible for pets and not all that great for shifters even when they weren’t shooting aerosol angel tears into the atmosphere.

I was grateful we weren’t going to have to move any giant statues, but I was still killing the helper gremlins because only shitty people worked here.

“I hope we don’t need power tools to get into that fucking thing,” I said. “They’ll hear it and Cas with a drill gives me a boner.”

“Doubtful,” Pax said. “I’m not sure how often they have to add them, but I can already tell you Hannibal doesn’t do it himself. The rest of these people get out of breath walking up the stairs and the ones who don’t wouldn’t be trusted with this because they haven’t taken the same vows. If we can find it, it’s not going to need brute force or tools to get into.”

“He’s right,” Cas said. “I’ve got my network helping Coalition victims and trying to bring these people down, but I’m not the only one in the States. I’ve been chatting with similar groups across the globe since AOL chat was a thing.

“We’ve long known about the silver in the walls, but we’ve never been able to figure out what else they were using. They had to have been using a different delivery method before electricity and these devices could be purchased.

“I’m guessing they were adding it to the water supply, but then they’d have to drink it, too.

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