Blood, Dirt, and Lies by Rachel Graves

Author:Rachel Graves [Graves, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, paranormal, witch, vampire, hot
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

My Sunday was bliss, absolute perfection. Sure, my back hurt, bruises and scratches never make for a fun next morning, but the thing that happened made it all right. The thing? The most important thing? The Saints won the Championship game. In two weeks my team, the team I adored and worshiped, would play in the Superbowl.

My father’s Saints jersey, faded and tired, was the only thing I had of his. It hung neatly in my closet six days a week. My dad watched football with me when I was seven; our special time together each Sunday with snacks and treats, a time for just the two of us. I watched alone after he died, imagining him next to me but I’d never imagined anything as great as the Saints heading to the Superbowl.

Monday morning I dropped off my weekly donuts in the break room and headed to my desk where I found Amadeus’ coffee cup right where it always was, only this time it was upside down, resting on a clean paper towel, neatly washed; sometimes that man could be almost human.

A case came in almost immediately, a man whose wife had changed her personality overnight. It was a frivolous case; one I didn’t expect the lieutenant to let us take. But he did, insisting that the media and special interest groups weren’t going to dictate how he ran his squad room.

We spent three days tracking down the people he thought might be responsible, hunting for a charm or a spell that could be doing it. We found several, all of them designed to keep him guessing. The change in her personality? That came from her new boyfriend.

By Thursday, our docket was clean and I wanted to see Christine’s boyfriend again. He’d been dodging my calls for too long to show up in a newspaper article calling me ineffective. In another three days January would be over and I planned on having the case solved before the calendar flipped over. Danny and I rode together to the MetroTech Chemical Corp. processing labs.

“I’m thinking of having a Superbowl party. Would you come?”

“American Football?” Danny scoffed and I knew I was in for it. “Why waste a Sunday? Now if you want to ask me about the World Cup and how Ireland is doing this year…”

“So that’s a no, for you?” I ignored his question. The girls would come. Phoebe could bring Ethan. It would be a nice little party. Of course, if Phoebe brought Ethan, Anna would bring Nancy who I didn’t particularly love, but hey, that’s the breaks. Sometimes your friends make bad choices in their love life and then they let them move in and you’re stuck with them…

“We’re here,” Danny interrupted my party planning.

I didn’t care for the industrial side of town. I knew it had to exist, to process the drugs and chemicals that made our world what it was but I didn’t like it being there. The giant white tubes coming out of the

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