Blood in the Water by Angela Roquet

Author:Angela Roquet [Roquet, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Records detention duty proved neither easy nor educational. And Alice did not like me, I soon realized. So the vampling bias extended beyond competitive cadets. Super.

The librarian vamp at least didn’t hurl snide insults non-stop. There was class and couth to her animosity. Her disapproval was revealed in the way she all but refused to acknowledge my presence. When I showed up at the library and asked what I should do, she silently handed me a typed list with precise instructions, and then pointed to the stairs leading up to the records department.

I spent forty-five minutes after my first harem break and forty-five minutes before my second harem break upstairs at the library, sorting through undead private records and filing them into a new set of cabinets that had been brought in.

The cabinets were the first exciting delivery made since I arrived at the bat cave, and several mystery boxes had been stashed inside the drawers. Sorano ordered us to unload and move them into her office within the barrack. One box proved to be the silver handcuffs. I wondered what new horrors awaited in the other packages.

After being emptied, we helped move the cabinets to the library and upstairs, positioning them around the lofted space at Alice’s discretion. And there they’d sat, for nearly a week, empty and waiting. Almost as if the BATC sergeants were just waiting for someone to step out of line so they could offer Alice the needed help free of charge. Like I said, they were an efficient bunch.

But, Alice really did need the help. The records department was like a legal document time capsule. Storing tax forms, birth certificates, scion appointments, living wills, and all those other miscellaneous things for vampires who were, in some cases, several hundred years old…well, it created a lot of paperwork. A lot of questions, too. And since we were working with some seriously sensitive information here, it was hardcopy only. No digital files to risk being hacked.

And someone had to sort all that shit and keep it organized. And when it outgrew its current filing system, someone had to transfer all that shit to its new home. That someone might as well be me. I was an easy target, after all.

My library research was put on hold that week, and I didn’t even get an update on Mandy’s trip until she’d been back for several days. We met outside the cafeteria at the picnic table again, along with Collins. He watched me the whole time Mandy relayed the details of the elk hunt through the mountains she’d participated in. How, after feasting on the thing’s carcass, she’d slept in a dogpile with a dozen other wolves. How it was the most exhilarating and liberating night of her life, and she couldn’t wait to go back. When she finally caught on to Collins’ edgy vibe, her voice trailed off.

“What?” I barked at him. His eyeballing was creeping me out.

He frowned and bit the tip of his tongue, as if trying to find the right words.

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