Cursed Moon by Jaye Wells

Author:Jaye Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary, Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal, Fiction / Fantasy / Urban, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Crime, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2014-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

October 25

Waxing Gibbous

The next afternoon I rolled into the gym feeling like I’d spent the night sleeping on rocks. Frustration and anger over my argument with Pen had pushed at my pressure points until I was tossing and turning like the princess and the fucking pea. I’d finally given up trying to sleep before the sun rose.

I’d been a cop for five years. In that time, I’d heard every excuse in the book from potion junkies. My life would have been a hell of a lot easier in some ways if I’d never quit magic. I certainly would have had more money. Most likely, I’d be the head of the Votary Coven, assuming no one put a bullet in me and I hadn’t gone down with Uncle Abe.

I had walked away not because it was the easy thing, but because it was the right thing. So my tolerance for other people’s excuses for weak behavior was pretty much zero. Especially people I knew were capable of being strong, like Pen. She’d put herself through college and created a nice life for herself despite a very troubled past. If she thought I was going to stand by and watch her throw all that away, she was sorely mistaken.

“Yo, Prospero!” Shadi called the instant I walked into the gym.

“What?” I snapped.

She paused and widened her eyes. “Who pissed in your cereal?”

“How much time you got?”

She laughed. “Might have something here could change your luck.” She waved a file folder like it was chocolate or a bottle of good whiskey.

“What’s that?”

“I spent my night going over the information we got from Dionysus’s landlord.”

“And?”

“I found him, Kate.”

I went very still, praying she wasn’t fucking with me. “Found him found him?”

“The name he used on his lease matched an alias used by an escaped mental patient from New York.”

“Holy shit, Shadi.” I couldn’t help it. Despite my best efforts to be in a pissy mood, a smile broke out across my face. “Tell me everything.”

She waved me over to a desk and opened the folder. Inside were several printed pages that looked like hospital forms.

“His real name is Scott McQueen.”

“Scott McQueen.” I sampled the name on my tongue. “Seems too… Mundane.”

Shadi nodded. “Figure that’s why he decided to call himself Dionysus.”

“What else you got?”

She pulled out some forms. “Called in a favor from some MEA agents who called in some of their own favors to get access to his files. I was worried we’d need a warrant, but turns out the MEA in New York already had his records on file.”

I frowned. “They’re looking for the same guy?”

She nodded. “Scott was arrested five years ago for murdering his parents. The guy went nuts at trial, claiming his father had been abusing him for years and his mother turned a blind eye.”

I frowned. “Did the jury believe him?”

She shook her head. “His father was a judge and his mother was on the board of every charity in their town. Real upstanding folks.” She shrugged. “Anyway,

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