Bloodlust by Midnight by Deanna Chase

Author:Deanna Chase [Chase, Deanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bayou Moon Press, LLC

14

“It’s never going to happen, Kilsen,” the director said in response to my request to send Allcot a sample of the toxic Scarlet. Her blue wings fluttered in agitation as she paced back and forth in front of her desk. “Is there a reason you went to Allcot’s office without informing me of your actions first?”

Yes. I’d known she wouldn’t like it, but I’d needed to give him a piece of my mind. I shrugged. “I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. His company manufactures that drug. He has a right to know someone is illegally altering it and distributing it.”

She scowled at me. “You’re making decisions above your pay grade again.”

So what if I was? That wasn’t new, and it was the reason I always got the job done.

“And you, Marrok,” she said, turning her ire on him. “You know better.”

“I think Kilsen has a point, ma’am.” He stood with his feet shoulder width apart, his hands resting behind his back.

She let out an irritated huff. “This is why I detest interoffice relationships. You can’t be trusted to keep each other in check.”

Now that just wasn’t true. If Dax went rogue, I’d take him out myself, and I knew the same was true for him. Both of us were married to the job. Not each other.

A nagging voice in the back of my mind asked, Are you sure?

The fact that the voice was even there was enough to tell me I wasn’t. Damn. I glanced at Dax. When had that happened?

“If I had anyone else in your positions to handle this case, I’d rip it away from you so fast your heads would spin,” the director was saying. “But since I don’t, I have no choice other than to let you see this out. But if I hear of you going to Allcot one more time without my approval, there will be consequences. Understood?”

“Understood,” Dax and I said together.

“Good. Now get back to work.” She pointed to the door.

Dax started to move, but I stayed put. “Is that your final answer on letting Cryrique’s scientists take a crack at the antidote for the tainted Scarlet?”

“Yes,” she barked. “No is my final answer. There’s no telling what Allcot and his morally compromised scientists would do with it. Our team is talented. We’ll have an antidote anytime now.”

I left her office shaking my head. How could she be so clueless? Allcot employed only the best and brightest. The Void? We had government workers who never seemed to stick around for the long hours and low pay.

When we were in the elevator, I turned to Dax. “If I’m going to defy a direct order, do you want to know about it?”

He pressed his hand to my lower back as he glanced down at me. His dark eyes were full of ire when he said, “Yes.”

I actually took a step back, breaking our connection. “Who are you angry at? Me or the director?”

His body was so tense he looked like all it would take was one wrong word for him to lose his shit.

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