Lucky 13: Book 13 (The Rebel Magic Series: A Fast Urban Fantasy with a BOSS Female Bounty Hunter) by Alex Fox

Author:Alex Fox [Fox, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vivrant Press LLC
Published: 2023-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean

The phone inside the seat arm of Sébastien Gael’s Gulfstream G700 rang softly, distracting him from the conversation he was having with his soldier, Margaux Bello, about the next steps he was planning. Gael picked up the receiver, holding it to his ear.

“We have a problem,” Astor Tallis told him.

“I assume you’re calling about Rebekah?” Gael returned calmly, though his senses sharpened to full alert at the grave note in the mercenary’s voice. Bello’s pitch-dark gaze sharpened on his face as she listened to the conversation from the seat across from him.

“You aware of the fact that you’ve got over a dozen Talmage brats in the city picking fights with supernaturals?”

Gael’s brow furrowed. “We dispatched with their leader, Aleksan Nikolaev, last year. Most of their ilk were slaughtered. The few who were remaining scattered back to Europe.”

“Right, well, did you take care of their kids while you were at it?” The English vampire pressed. “Because I just finished interrogating a barely legal Earth Mage who attempted to exhume me at rest, the filthy bastard. Before I drank him down like a good chianti, he admitted he was the son of one of the mages you killed. Apparently, the mage was in town with a licorice assortment of tasty mates. Good for me—but in this case, bad for you, mate.”

Gael met Bello’s eyes, and she nodded, swiftly picking up her own phone to do some reconnaissance. She’d reach out to their contacts in the UK and get some answers on what was going on with the defunct organization that had once set its sights on ruling the world, starting with taking over the Southern Conclave. They’d been monitoring the remaining Talmage loosely, but it hadn’t seemed their numbers had been able to re-coalesce since the butchering they’d received in New Orleans. Their offspring, on the other hand, had been a different matter.

“I don’t typically make the habit of exterminating individuals for the crime of being related to my enemies. Créer des bijoux avec bienveillance. Live and let live—n’est-ce pas?” Gael responded.

Astor made a soft scoffing sound. “That’s a terribly magnanimous position for a Vampire Master to take after wiping out the leaders of an entire generation of mages. Cheeky, even. You must be aware, then, that last year’s pretty little massacre has created a terrible antipathy toward you and yours. The descendants are out to destroy you and all those cozied up to you—Rebel was simply the easiest to target. Harming a hair on her delectable little head is a direct hit on you,” Astor took a brief inhale. Gael imagined he was taking a puff of one of his expensive Silk Cut cigarettes.

His fingers tightened to the point of cracking the plastic shell of the phone’s receiver. Gael forced himself to calm down. He knew Rebekah was on the reservation in Oklahoma, but he’d assumed she’d merely left New Orleans early when Astor reported back the news that she’d departed the city after leaving her Land Cruiser with Ben Crow.

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