Feathers From The Sky: A Dark Vampire Romance (The Hunting Vengeance Duet Book 1) by Jess Wisecup

Author:Jess Wisecup [Wisecup, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

18

ROMAN

It’s too goddamn soon for me to be here, but I’m running out of time. I don’t know how long I have, even though Margot is listening to the police scanner from the comfort of her bed. They only had two cops stationed at the crime scene, and it was simple to send them off for a break. An already hungry belly at lunch time is quick to trust someone suggesting a restaurant nearly an hour away. It’s just a matter of time until dispatch or someone at the station catches on, so I work quickly.

Charlie’s house is a fucking disaster. Covered in dust and packed to the brim, it’s a doomsday prepper’s wet dream. There’s an entire room devoted to canned goods with no organization whatsoever. Towering cans of assorted meats and beans block the blacked-out window, and the dust floating down over it in the beam of my flashlight makes me wonder how long some of the shit has been there. He must have slept on the worn out recliner in the living room, an outline of a body on the cushions clear. Though he paid for electricity and his usage was regular, not a single light switch in the main level of the house is operative. When I find the contents of his basement, I understand what the money was paying for.

Computer monitors line the wall, a surveillance system to rival Margot’s taking up the entire one-room basement. It explains the usage and exactly how he knew we were here last night. One monitor is blinking, and some sort of coded message appears on the screen in red text.

“The wind is blowing and that vicious shark is hungry,” I read to Margot on the phone. “Know what the fuck that means?” The rest of the monitors show camera footage of the surrounding woods, and there’s even one of the main road. He knew we were coming for a while if he was paying attention.

“Sounds like a failsafe. He probably has to type in a code or something or it will all lock down. Don’t fuck with it. I’ll get out there as soon as I’m able.” The television is quiet in the background, and I hear the sound of her blankets ruffling. I’m still sore as hell, but Margot is much worse off than me. It took far longer for our friend Nico to pull out the silver pellets embedded in her skin, and her healing time as a made vampire is longer than mine, anyway.

“It’s like he barely even lived here. Everything is dusty as hell.”

“You find anything at all?”

I trudge upstairs, satisfied I can leave the basement in Margot’s capable hands. “Nope. Not in the house, anyway. I found the keys to his old Chevy, though, so I’m going to check that out. Anything on that translation?”

Not bothering to lock the door behind me, I let it slam shut as I go out to the truck parked behind the cabin.

“I have a couple people working on it, but they seem to think it’s going to take them months to decode it.

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