Burning the Rule Book by Dana Cameron

Author:Dana Cameron [Cameron, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

The drive from Boston to New York City should have taken about four hours, but Sully seemed to have had a former life as a fighter pilot and drove the black Trans Am as if she was homing in on the Kremlin. She insisted on playing rap—Salt-N-Pepa—at full blast, which made Jack even more convinced they’d be pulled over, and neither of them was a vampire who could charm the inevitable ticket away. He would have said he enjoyed driving fast, but clearly he didn’t know what the meaning of the word “fast” was until riding with his new partner.

“You really don’t talk a lot, do you?” she asked two scary miles later after singing along to a track, advising some unseen someone to “push it real good.”

He shrugged. “Most of my partners have been happier when I’ve kept my nose to the grindstone, kept quiet, and gotten the job done.” When he saw she wasn’t going to leave him be, he said, “Insurance claims adjuster by day, avenging werewolf by night. I live in Portland, but I grew up in Rhode Island. Moved up here after Academy. That’s pretty much it.”

“And that’s pretty much what I got from the file,” Sully replied. “Except for those other things.”

Jack sighed. His partners—there had been seven over the ten years since the last incident—always claimed to want to talk about “those other things,” but they almost always found an excuse to ask for a new partner shortly after he did. He’d resigned himself to it; he’d made his bed with his choices long ago, and they’d changed his life. “Those other things, they’re in the file, too.”

“Yeah—you were ordered to leave a hostage situation because the police and the news crews were getting too close. Instead, you clocked your partner, who was a good deal senior to you, and went in to take on the bank robbers yourself.”

“I knew I could do it. We all make tough decisions,” he said automatically.

“Sure, it’s how we know we’re ready to take on the job. But you went too far. Your partner took a couple of stray bullets in the chaos you caused. That’s insubordination and imperiling Family.”

“I got everyone out safely, including the bad guys. If we’d left, there would have been casualties for sure.”

“You slugged your senior partner,” Sully repeated. “He almost died. You were seen in your half-wolf form. The vampires had a huge number of false memories to implant, and it took the better part of an evening. All with the press outside, just slavering to get a look inside the bank. You could have exposed us all, on the off chance someone might have died if you didn’t.”

“I thought I could keep everyone alive.”

“We all think that, but we have to work as a team. And then there was the other thing, five years after that, just as you were starting to rebuild trust.”

“It was a school bus crashing into a mall—how could I not act?”

“You could have acted without Changing.

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