Life Slowly Faded Marty Phillips [Book 1] by Kieran Double

Author:Kieran Double [Double, Kieran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal & Urban Fantasy | Vampires
Published: 2018-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

I sat in the Den for a few hours that night. The barman, Schlaukopf’s cousin, was a Fuchsmann too. I should have known. The Fox’s Den. Jesus Christ, they had a sense of humor. Walker came in, sometime around nine. He sat beside me. “Beer please.”

“I’m sorry for the way I acted yesterday, Phillips. I didn’t know…it was her anniversary” he said, sipping his beer. “Wil told me last night.”

“Yeah, well, life’s tough, Andrew,” I muttered, taking a sip of my bourbon. “You of all people know that.”

Walker raised his eyebrows.

“Wil told me there was trouble at home, after a bit of squeezing. No details. He’s very loyal to you, after only two years,” I said, trying not to sound sore. “We were together seven years, me a rookie at the start. And he wasn’t far out of the blocks either, two years. His old partner had just died, heart attack. Funny, he helps keep us both together, and yet dishes the dirt on us to the other. He’s one of the strangest men I know. The best too, but that’s beside the point.”

“‘Suppose it is,” said Walker, taking another sip of his Bud. “You remember when we had that bust up. Oh, god, it must have been four years ago. Annie comes in – Wil called her – and she marches over to me and slaps me straight across the face. I laughed. There’s something about you, Phillips. Something funny. That whole thing was a joke anyway. Just some fooling around. Sometimes I wonder whether we’d be a good team.”

“Most of the time, I’d say we would be. Just when times are tough, we’d butt heads too often. With Muller in the middle, I wouldn’t worry too much. He’ll make us work.”

“I’m not so sure about that.”

“Really? I mean Muller manages to somehow stay detached from everyone, as if he’s trying to stay attached to everyone. He seems so shut off and distant from the whole thing.”

“He looked close enough to your sister. Last time I saw him, there wasn’t an inch between them.”

“You peeping at Ashley kissing your partner? No wonder the wife’s being a bitch.”

“That’s the worst part; I’m not even sure she is. I love her, and the children. But this job…”

“You can’t let go, even when you go home. Because if you did, then you wouldn’t be doing your job properly. There is no time off. They don’t get that. You know, that’s the only thing we ever used to fight about; work. She was a middle-school teacher. They weren’t her kids, as much as she loved them. She could forget about it when she got home. All of it. I couldn’t. I’d always see the bodies. Now it’s just the same one, over and over again. Work and love combined. And it’s just as shit as when they were separated.”

“If it comes to it,” said Walker, standing up. “I’ll leave Merkel for you. He’s yours. And I won’t stop until you can put a bullet in his head.

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