J C Daniels - 04 Edged Blade by J C Daniels

Author:J C Daniels [Daniels, J C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

There were any number of ways we could have played it when Justin announced he would be meeting me at my office. He didn’t know that Abraham would be joining us, but what he didn’t know would help me.

I hoped.

Justin had done some thinking, he’d told me, and decided that maybe the best way to handle the abductions of the clan was to just work with me on it. After all, he’d drawled, he still had to get to the bottom of it and he could try to do it on his own but the job offer had already been extended toward me and he knew I’d get a more than fair payout.

Why risk getting maybe a third of that and getting stonewalled at every other turn?

Translation: He’d already been trying to do just that and doors were getting slammed in his face.

The clan was secretive as hell, something I’d learned back when I was trying to find Doyle all those months ago. I’d had a giant Damon-shaped shadow at my back and I’d still been pulling teeth.

Things were different now—for me, at least—thanks to that Damon-shaped shadow and the doors that Justin was banging his head against would open on oiled hinges before I even lifted a hand to knock.

Justin would know this.

Sometimes, he could be smart.

The silence lingered as I pondered that phone call. I hadn’t mentioned Saul and neither had Justin. He knew it wasn’t done, but if I knew him, he was going to hope he could handle it during the down time on this job. Or in all likelihood, while I was doing the legwork for the clan case, he’d be doing the face-work for the Saul case—as in smashing Saul’s face in.

“You don’t intend to let it go with Saul.”

I looked at Abraham. Canting my head to the side, I said, “No. No, I do not.” Closing my hand over a dagger I kept on my desk, I started to toss it, letting it dance in the air until it became a blur over my fingers. Abraham’s gaze flicked from the dagger to my face and back. “Justin’s so caught up in this, he can’t see the forest for the trees, but once he lets himself look, he’ll see it. It’s too connected. Too tied up together. You can’t separate the strands of a thread and not expect it to unravel.”

Abraham leaned back, his gaze thoughtful.

I continued to play with the dagger.

He continued to watch me. The silence was…odd. I didn’t feel uncomfortable in his presence, something that made more sense to me now.

Still, it was strange. Almost every person I knew in my life, almost every person I called friend was somebody I’d known for an extended period of time and we’d gotten closer after they’d somehow…proven themselves to me.

Even Damon, in a way.

Doyle, too.

But this odd kinship I felt for a vampire was…bemusing. It wasn’t anything remotely romantic. That idea was laughable. I couldn’t deny the fact that I felt comfortable with him, though.

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