Damon by J C Daniels

Author:J C Daniels [Daniels, J C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, POV, Damon
Publisher: Shiloh Walker
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

That icy cold sensation had spread to my gut and even further.

Yesterday, when I talked to Chang, I’d been uneasy.

Now, after three days of not seeing the kid, I was as close to terrified as I’d ever been.

I couldn’t find Doyle.

He wasn’t in any of his normal hang-outs and when I talked to his friends, I got the run around.

I couldn’t say they were lying, but they weren’t being straight-up with me either and I’d spent the day talking to just about every single kid Doyle knew.

Late afternoon found me just a block away from a burger joint near the trenches.

It also found me facing a couple of shifters, two more of Annette’s enforcers. One of them was little more than brainless muscle. The other one was a fairly average-looking man with white hair, an easy-going smile and a similar easy-going manner that could fool almost anybody into thinking he wasn’t much of a threat.

That was only one of the reasons he was a threat.

He was sly and quick-thinking, and he didn’t serve under Annette out of sheer fear or because he liked inciting it, either. One of Annette’s higher-leveling enforcers, he approached me with a friendly smile that didn’t fool me at all.

“We need to talk for a minute, Damon,” he said. He gave me an affable smile. “You need to go to see the Lady. She’s got some questions for you.”

“I’m working.”

He hitched up a shoulder. “I’m just passing the message. She’s got people out looking for you. Apparently, the past few days have been a bit of a problem…no tithes coming in from you.”

Tithes.

She brought in more money in a week than a hundred families here combined and she was bitching because I hadn’t deposited her tithes for a couple of days. “I’ve got it,” I said. Most of it. “I’ll get it into her accountant’s hands in a couple of hours.”

“That’s fine. Now go back to the Lair,” Roger said, still smiling. “And tell her. She’s not happy. Said you haven’t been answering her calls, either.”

I eyed him, then shot a glance at the still-silent shifter at his side. Was it worth taking them both down?

But just as I figured it would be, I grew aware of several others. Like five of them. All enforcers, and they were drawing in closer.

“Don’t try it, Damon,” Roger said, shaking his head. “We’re just doing what we do—like you. Working.”

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