Demon Night by Meljean Brook

Author:Meljean Brook
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2008-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Ethan found Jake in the tech room at the back of the warehouse. The light shining in from the single, small window high up on the wall glared on his computer screen, but Jake didn’t look as if he was paying attention to it, anyway. He was sitting low in his seat, his hands tucked in his pockets.

Lilith hadn’t been mistaken; Guardians did tend to beat up on themselves better than anyone else could.

“You got the video?”

Jake nodded without looking away from the computer.

“Pull it up,” Ethan said, and crossed the room to stand beside Jake’s chair.

With a deep sigh, Jake hauled himself up and fiddled with the mouse until the video was playing.

Ethan let it run through. “There’s two things you ought to have done different,” he said finally.

“Only two?” Jake’s reply hung somewhere between sarcasm and surprise.

“You had to go out. If that had been Jane, and you’d watched a vampire get on her like that without doing anything, I’d be feeding your head to Sir Pup. And having Charlie assist you was a good idea, because with Jane’s throat ripped up, there wouldn’t be no way for her to get inside by herself.”

“But?”

“You ought to have had Charlie wait inside until you made certain it was Jane. You had to think quick once the vampire showed, and I reckon if you’d had another second, you’d have realized that. But you often don’t have seconds, so you have to think quicker.”

Jake nodded. “How would I have communicated it to her through the spell?”

“Charlie’s smart enough to figure that you taking off and running for your life was a damn good indication that it wasn’t Jane. Have a bit of faith in the people you protect—they want to keep themselves safe just as bad as you do.”

A blush spread over the kid’s cheeks. “Yes, sir. What’s the second thing?”

Ethan called in a sword, laid it next to the computer. “It takes less than a second. Next time, you leave weapons for her. Give her something to defend herself with if it all goes to hell. It may be she won’t have a chance to use them, but a little chance is better than none. A gun might have given her a second to get back into the house; a dagger might have let her get away once the vampire got hold of her.”

“All right.” Jake was silent for a moment, then he looked up at Ethan with a startled lift of his brows. “That’s it?”

Ethan frowned. “You want me to lay my fists into you? I’m willing.”

“No. No, I just—” Jake shook his head. He turned back to the computer. “Charlie’s debit card is showing a purchase at a 7-Eleven, and a pending charge at a motel in Woodland.”

“You see that she’s reimbursed for that.” Ethan leaned down to look at the name of the motel, and nodded. “All right then. You got anything else in?”

“No, but I checked your inbox, and Savi sent you some preliminary info on Senator and Mark Brandt.

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