Heartless (Crossbreed Series Book 9) by Dannika Dark

Author:Dannika Dark [Dark, Dannika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dannika Dark
Published: 2020-06-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Instead of returning to the White Owl, I headed back to the hotel. Now that I had my connection, it left me with mixed feelings. When the bust went down, I would have no choice but to report Flynn. He seemed like a regular guy who just needed the money.

I left a message with the club manager, informing her that the owner had sent me on a special errand that would take the rest of the night. I knew she’d relay it to Houdini, and he could decide if he wanted us in his club anymore. He’d only given me two hours, but Houdini needed a taste of his own medicine. He worried that showing me favoritism would cause his employees to break more rules. It sounded to me like someone needed a little chaos in his rigid structure.

After towel drying my hair and putting on a pair of sweatpants and a tank top, I sat on the bathroom floor. I had thrown up twice, but my stomach had already absorbed most of the blood. Crawford’s dark light had a more caustic effect than his blood, however. It tangled with my own and made me sick in ways I couldn’t articulate. It felt like insects were crawling beneath my skin and devouring me from the inside out. When the chills came on, I sat against the wall and hugged my knees to my chest. It always took a day or two for another Mage’s light to leave my system. The darker the light, the worse the energy hangover. It lived inside every cell of my body and invaded me like a virus.

When a knock sounded at the door, it took every ounce of energy to stand up and answer.

Blue glanced around before she forced her way in and shut the door. “Are you okay?”

I returned to the bathroom and slumped to the floor. “You wouldn’t happen to have a bottle of tequila, would you?”

She sat across from me with her back to the sink. I could always tell when Blue had come out of a shift. Her brown hair was long and silken, but even more so when she changed back to human form. No tangles, shiny, and perfectly straight.

Meanwhile, I looked like something the cat spit up. I drew up my knees, the pain bone-deep.

Blue sat cross-legged and studied me. “I saw everything.”

I pursed my lips. Not much I could add in my defense to killing a man in cold blood.

Her blue eyes narrowed as she looked away. “I could have stopped you.”

“Viktor won’t blame you.”

“Of course he won’t. I’m not telling him what happened.”

My jaw slackened. “What?”

She shook her head. “I saw the video. No matter what reasons we give him, he won’t support what you did. It’s not because he wouldn’t have wanted justice, but he has rules that keep our operation running. We only have permission to kill declared outlaws or in self-defense. Now that the car is gone, along with the phone and video, we don’t even have evidence to justify your actions.

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