Devils and Details by Devon Monk

Author:Devon Monk [Monk, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Devon Monk
Published: 2016-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I am not ashamed to admit I spent the next hour under the blanket on my couch trying to sleep while the conversation with Ryder played on endless loop through my brain.

What I had gained from our talk had to be separated into two distinct piles in my head. The case-related stuff, and everything else.

Ryder insisted he was innocent. Told me he was working for an agency that suspected, and now knew, there were vampires in Ordinary. An agency that apparently could take that revelation not only in stride, but also had a plan in place for how they wanted to contact vampires. That suggested to me that they were already in contact with vampires outside of Ordinary.

I wasn’t sure if that was a good or bad thing. What did he mean they wanted oversight? was that just a code word for nefarious experiments? Blackmail? Something worse? For all I knew that agency could be building an army of vampires, or be making sure that no one else could do so.

While I might trust Ryder, I was not dumb enough to blindly trust some secret agency.

Ryder all but told me those men he’d met in the bar were behind Sven’s death. Maybe one of them had been the hand in the security camera. He’d told me those men were hunting vampires but weren’t part of whoever he was working for.

So we possibly had two groups in town, at the same time, looking for fangers.

Why?

Rossi had said it was an invitation. That Sven’s death was a calling card from his past. Someone who he or Lavius had taught the ichor techne.

Someone who wanted Ryder blamed for the death.

Which could be someone in the opposing group of hunters. Or some other vampire. Or, hell, Old Rossi himself if he had decided the double-double cross was in his best interest.

There simply wasn’t enough hard information to go on at this point.

Maybe when Jean went through the video files she would come up with something solid we could pursue.

Until then, I had a meeting at midnight I didn’t want to be late for.

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