Lady of the Dead: A Lawson Vampire Mission (The Lawson Vampire Series) by Merz Jon F

Author:Merz, Jon F. [Merz, Jon F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

9

When she finally stopped laughing, I just stared at her. “How’d you find him?”

La Calavera spread her arms. “Do you know how powerful we are? Do you even know how much influence we wield in this part of the world? Once El Chapo was taken out of circulation, we flourished. And we made a decision to become a lot more active than we had up until that point. We realized we could have more power than we had ever dreamed of possessing.”

“In other words, you got tired of living by the Council’s laws.”

La Calavera smiled. “Bright boy. Why should we subjugate ourselves to such things? The Council doesn’t rule us. They don’t know what sort of life we’ve had to carve for ourselves down here. It’s easy for them to pass judgment from the safety of their buildings back in Boston. But out here - in this place - it’s survival of the fittest.”

“Or the most murderous,” I said.

She laughed. “Indeed. We aren’t known for being the most merciful of opponents.” She nodded at Juarez’s head. “As he found out. We caught up with him at the bar he’d chosen to stop at. Outsiders aren’t exactly inconspicuous around these parts, if you get my drift.”

Juarez had been stupid. He never should have stopped at a local drinking hole. Talk is cheap in places like that. And he would have stuck out like a sore thumb in that environment. Someone dropped a dime on him and he’d paid for that bad decision with his life.

And if I got out of this mess alive, I was going to have to tell Silvia

Great.

“You killed a Loyalist. Did you know that?”

“He was human. Who cares what type of human he was?”

“He helped our race. He didn’t deserve to die like that. You could have let him go with a warning.”

La Calavera cocked an eyebrow. “What do I look like to you, Lawson, a school teacher? I am the most powerful woman in Mexico. There are none who will not eventually kneel before me and if they don’t, I will tear their very souls from their bodies.”

“I heard a rumor about that,” I said then.

She came closer again and I realized that I definitely did not enjoy having her as close to me as she seemed to like to stand.

“It’s not a rumor, Lawson. I can literally tear your soul out of your body and kill it.”

“I didn’t know that was a skill Invokers possessed.”

“Invokers,” La Calavera sniffed. “As if they are the-be-all-end all of those of our race who can wield magic.”

“I know there are Enchanters, too,” I said. Memories of Madagascar flooded my head and I tuned them out in order to focus better on La Calavera. “But they are rare.”

La Calavera shook her head. “It amazes me how little you actually know about our kind, Lawson. I thought Fixers were supposed to be fully up to speed on every bit of history and variants and myths and legends.”

“I think you’re mistaking me for being an Elder.

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