Christine Warren - The Others 02 by She's No Faerie Princess

Author:She's No Faerie Princess
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Graham took the news about as well as Walker expected, which meant that his bellow would have the police department in Albany fielding noise-disturbance calls for the rest of the night. Even the normally stabilizing influence of his luna didn't seem to be helping keep him calm. Walker had to wait until the walls stopped shaking before he managed to get the rest of the story out, and even then, Graham jumped in swinging before the last syllable fell.

"What the hell was the puppy waiting for?" he roared, his expression dark as storm clouds. "Did there have to be a fucking massacre before he thought we'd be interested in what was going on?"

"Walker already explained that," Missy said. Her voice stayed serene and quiet, but no one could mistake the steel in it. "He didn't think it was that unusual, and you need to calm down."

"I'm about as fucking calm as I'm likely to get in the middle of a goddamned crisis."

"Which makes it a particular relief that you passed on the opportunity to head the Council," Rafael said. He and Tess sat on the sofa in Graham's office at Vircolac. They had rushed over in response to Walker's succinct and urgent cell-phone call and arrived at the club hot on Walker's and Fiona's heels. "The last thing they need to hear at the moment is your panicked rantings."

"No," snarled the alpha, "the last thing they need to hear is that Others around the city are slaughtering defenseless humans. That should make our negotiations really pleasant."

"They won't hear any such thing, because no one is going to tell them."

Graham shoved a hand through his hair and looked about half a step away from yanking it all out by the roots. Just to keep his mind off his pain. "Right, because a series of gruesome and suspicious deaths will be so easy to keep out of the human public's eye. Damn it, the occasional death we can handle. We have our bad seeds the same as the humans, and the fact that we choose to deal with them ourselves rather than turning them over to the human authorities doesn't mean we're any more tolerant of murder. But a series of deaths isn't occasional, and it couldn't come at a worse time. If the human delegation hears about this, the talks are over."

Tess snorted. "Why would they get suspicious? This is New York City. People die in gruesome and unexplained ways at least five times every day."

"Not at the hands of Others, they don't."

"And they didn't this time, either," Rafe pointed out calmly and decidedly. "Thanks to Fiona, we already know that these humans died at the hands of a demon. Others aren't to blame, and we can say that with certainty to anyone who might become concerned. You're right that alerting the human delegation would lead to nothing more than broken negotiations and a frenzied witch hunt. But that fails to solve our problem. We need to find the demon."

"Demons. Plural." Fiona stepped out from behind Walker's shoulders.

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