Lost Souls (Soul Charmer Book 3) by Chelsea Mueller

Author:Chelsea Mueller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Chelsea Muller
Published: 2019-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

The group climbed the rickety basement stairs together, and walked single file back to the storefront. Savannah had hopped onto the glass counter while they were gone. A bead of sweat slithered down Callie’s lower back—from the stairs or the stress, she wasn’t certain. Savannah wasn’t even goddamn dewy.

“Any customers show up?” Derek asked.

“Nah.” Savannah swung her legs enough to let her heels bang against the counter at an easy cadence.

How could she be so casual? Next time they shouldn’t pick her as the lookout. She wasn’t on alert. Maybe she hadn’t ventured past the curtained doorway into the back room. Maybe she didn’t know the place had the tornado-level wreckage of a three-day weekend kegger. Maybe Savannah was good at her normal gig for the Charmer. Maybe she coaxed people back into the building efficiently. Didn’t matter now.

“Do you know anything about the guy they had downstairs?” Callie didn’t bother faking casual.

Savannah looked to Beck and then Miguel. When the latter nodded, she said, “Just another troublemaker. You know how it is. The Charmer points, we shoot.”

The other woman had muscle. There was no denying she could probably stop a runner from the store, but right now Callie simply didn’t believe her. The words were true enough. Callie and Derek had been on the other side of that equation.

“I picked him up solo,” Miguel clarified.

Savannah scowled for a half second before flashing back to basic and bored.

“What do we know about him?” Derek asked. The soft flick, flick, flicka-flick of his thumb against the business card didn’t register with the others, but Callie understood. Derek was planning.

“Everyone I talked to called him Vega.” Miguel was all business. Thank God. He paused, and pulled a small spiral notebook from his pocket. He flipped back a few pages. “Almost everyone up in Green Heights knew him. Only around the last few weeks, but making the rounds.”

Beck sidled around the back of the counter until he was closer to Callie and Derek than Miguel and Savannah.

“Anyone renting from him?” Beck asked.

Miguel shrugged. “No one copped to it, but if that many people knew him, there had to be a problem.”

Derek could have extracted the truth from them, but pointing it out would only complicate things. If Derek didn’t need to avoid the police right now, the Soul Charmer would have sent Derek. For the first time ever having the scrutiny of the Gem City PD was working out in their favor. How the hell had that become her reality?

Derek lifted the Anonymous Souls card for all to see. “Did anyone try this number?”

The low-wattage bulbs peering from worn shades at the corners of the room couldn’t reach the black surface. Lighting was unnecessary.

Three sets of eyes narrowed on the business card.

On the blocky yellow digits printed on the back.

No names, slogans, or promises.

The back of the card held all potential clients would need: Ten simple digits and an understanding.

Derek was done with the preliminary dance. He’d been watching the others, too. She’d seen the shuffling, and the collaborative looks.

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