Hunted: A New Adult Urban Fantasy Novel (Shadow Reapers Book 1) by Jack Knight

Author:Jack Knight [Knight, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jack Knight
Published: 2020-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

MY LEG WOULDN’T STOP bouncing up and down, I tried to stop it, but I was too agitated.

I was sitting in a chair in Ezra’s office, facing his desk. He had sent Magnus to tell me that he needed to speak to me and that he would be with me in a moment, but that was almost twenty minutes ago. Sitting still for that long was not my forte.

It was particularly annoying because Gen and I had been in the middle of something much more important than a chat. After I recognized one name, I knew that most of the Hunters would probably never allow their actual names to get out. If a Hunter died, they were given false records, “Arcturus Gilbert” had died at least a dozen times over the years, I was sure there were more, but I didn’t know all the false names.

Gen had started searching police reports for people with the Hunter’s Mark. “Arcturus” wasn’t the only dead Hunter. We had found twenty other Hunters dead under false names before Magnus gave me the message that dragged me away.

Someone was creating vampires. New, more powerful vampires, to kill Hunters. And, I was sitting in an empty office doing nothing.

Finally, I heard the door behind me open and I spun around in my chair.

“I was busy,” I snapped.

Ezra had to raise his eyes to look at me, he had been staring at the floor when he walked in. His face was not in its usual, confident, put together state. It was lined, and he looked exhausted.

“Yes, I thought you might be,” Ezra answered wearily as he strode across the office and took his seat at his desk. “I was as well, but something came up.”

“The vampires that are popping up, they’re killing Hunters. We aren’t sure if they’re going after Reapers, too, but Torn was killed by a vampire, right?”

Ezra’s eyes narrowed as I spoke, like he was trying to figure something out while I was talking.

“That would explain a few things,” he said quietly. “I’ll look into it,” he said a little louder. “In the meantime, I have another job for you.”

My leg finally stopped shaking and I glared at Ezra. “Are you fucking kidding me?” I demanded. “I just told you I’m onto something that’s going around killing Hunters! They might be coming for the Reapers next! You’re just going to send me off on an errand?”

Ezra rubbed his eyebrow, looking even more exhausted than he had before.

“Listen,” he said in resignation, “I hear what you’re saying, and yes, it’s bad. But, there’s someone out there right now killing innocent people. Hunters, and us Shadow Reapers, can hold our own against these things. Our immediate priority is stopping the people who can’t protect themselves from being slaughtered by a rogue wizard.”

The sigh that I gave sounded a little more like a growl, but I had to admit he was right. The vampire that Asher and I caught wasn’t killing anyone that didn’t deserve it, the rest might be the same way.

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