Bitter Blood by Lyn Gala

Author:Lyn Gala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire, vampires, police
Publisher: Lyn Gala
Published: 2018-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Paige stared at the screen, and goose pimples appeared on her arms. John Monagas, an Hispanic male aged thirty-seven, had raped fourteen women in the Memphis area. He’d been shot by police while fleeing. Paige was going to ignore the fact that the cops were not supposed to ever shoot fleeing suspects. This guy deserved to have an overeager officer put a bullet in him.

Most interestingly, the coroner’s report included a long addendum attempting to explain how the body of John Monagas had vanished. A week ago, Paige would have said some victim’s family member had stolen the body to have a good old-fashioned bonfire where they could spit on Monagas’s remains before letting coyotes eat his bones. Now...now she wasn’t sure.

Paige hit Print on his official mug shot. He had a wide face and big eyes—he didn’t look particularly dangerous, although he was a large and muscular man.

“Have something?” The profiler came out of nowhere with his smile.

“A dead man,” Paige said as she tried to keep from showing her aggravation. The last thing she needed was the profiler or the captain demanding answers.

The profiler pulled the picture off the printer. “John Monagas?”

The profiler looked at her, confused. Paige gave a shrug. “I don’t know, but something about this guy is ringing bells,” she said, scrambling for some sort of explanation. “I’m probably just imagining things.”

The profiler went over to Paige’s computer and scrolled through Monagas’s file. “This looks like our guy’s M.O.”

“But this guy’s dead,” Paige pointed out, hoping to get the profiler off the trail before he started jumping to conclusions. She figured he could jump for a long time before landing on the same conclusion she had. However, she couldn’t exactly explain her logic.

The profiler didn’t look as put off by that as Paige had expected. “Let’s run this by Captain Foley.”

“But I don’t know anything,” Paige protested. However, the asshole was already on his way to the captain’s office. Gritting her teeth, Paige trailed along behind him. Captain Foley was on the phone, and the profiler waited, Paige’s printout in hand, until he put the phone down. The profiler didn’t even have time to knock before Foley was gesturing them to come into the office.

“What ya got?” he asked, leaning forward and reaching for the printout.

“Officer Silver was looking for homicides and assaults in the surrounding counties, and she found this.”

Captain Foley scanned it quickly. “He’s dead.”

“Yes, but he looks familiar to Silver, and he has the same pattern of behavior. We may be looking at a sibling or a partner who still has Monagas’s picture up on a shelf in his living room as some sort of memorial. Sometimes these predators will work in pairs, and if Monagas was the dominant partner, then the junior partner is going to be missing his friend. Continuing his friend’s pattern of killing is a way to maintain that relationship.”

Captain Foley perked up. “Did Monagas have a partner?”

“Not that the detectives in Memphis knew,” Paige hurried to say.

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