Dark Choices: Paradigm Shift (The Children Of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series Book 42) by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

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Vlad

“You make the best steak, Roni.” Vlad rubbed his stomach. “I haven’t eaten that well in a long while.” He chuckled. “It’s good that Bowen and Leon are not here. They would have been offended. Both think that they are barbecue masters.”

“They don’t have the right tools.” Roni patted his egg-shaped grill. “This baby makes all the difference.”

Vlad glanced at the sliding door and the living room beyond. After it had gotten hot outside, the ladies had taken their plates into the dining room to enjoy their meal in an air-conditioned space.

Out of solidarity with Roni, Vlad and Jackson stayed in the backyard to keep him company and to wolf down the remaining steaks.

It was a good opportunity to talk with Roni about searching for Wendy’s mom, but Vlad still wasn’t sure that he should. The problem was that he knew his reason for doing so was selfish, and all the excuses he’d come up with to justify it morally were kind of lame.

If Wendy’s mom was still alive and they found her, they could bring her into the village. She was a confirmed Dormant, and since she’d had Wendy at a young age, she wasn’t too old to transition.

That would be wonderful for Wendy, as well as for some lucky male whose mate she could become. If the mom was half as pretty as the daughter, she would be a great catch.

Even if she was indeed a drug addict, and Wendy’s father hadn’t invented the story to make her seem like a bad person, they could help her with rehab. Many of the trafficking victims that the clan was rescuing were addicted to drugs when they were brought to the sanctuary, and Vanessa had a team of therapists who helped them. Wendy’s mom could start there.

“Do you have a stomachache?” Jackson asked.

“No, why?”

“You’re grimacing.’

“It wasn’t about my stomach.” Vlad patted his belly. “It’s very happy at the moment. I was thinking about Wendy’s mom.” He glanced at the sliding door again, verifying that it was closed, then turned to Roni. “I’ve been thinking about asking you to help us find her.”

Roni paused scrubbing the grill. “Is she missing?”

Vlad nodded. “According to Wendy’s father, who is an abusive jerk, she left when Wendy was a baby because she was addicted to drugs. I have a bad feeling that it was a cover-up story and that he’d murdered the mom. But in case he didn’t, if we find her, she can join the clan. She had Wendy at nineteen, the same age Wendy is now, so she should be only thirty-eight. She could still transition.”

“Not without risk, but yeah.” Roni resumed the scrubbing. “Give me any information you have on her, and I’ll do some snooping. Does Wendy have a picture of her mom?”

“No. But I thought that maybe we could access her high school yearbook and get it from there. Maybe Dalhu could draw an age-adjusted portrait based on that?”

“Dalhu can’t do that, but Tim can.” Roni dipped his brush in a cleaning solution and went back to scrubbing.

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