Need by R. E. Butler

Author:R. E. Butler [Butler, R. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shifter romance, vampire shifter romance, vampire romance, vampire club, shifter vampire romance
Published: 2019-10-20T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Cyrus made his way to the reception area, where the family members were gathered. Each was dressed for war, with bullet proof vests and weapons strapped on. He accepted a vest from Temple, and once that was secure, Rage gave him a knife sheath and several deadly-looking blades.

Temple handed him the tablet with the view from the alley cameras. No one said anything while he watched the footage. There wasn’t any activity aside from the vampires going from the club to the restaurant before the third shift started. But he didn’t think he was wrong. He scrolled back through the first shift, and then to the previous day.

“Just these two cameras, right?” he asked.

“Yeah, why?” Rage asked.

“I need to see the front of the alley. The camera is a foot or so back from the entrance, and I think the bomber knew that.”

“What’s at the entrance to the alley that this guy could use to get into the restaurant?” Ven asked.

“It’s the bathroom,” Cyrus said. “Both bathrooms have windows, but the men’s faces this side.”

“Ah, shit,” Temple said. “But the windows lock from the inside.”

“They’re just slide locks,” Ven said.

“Why the hell are there windows in the bathrooms? They’d let in natural light which would burn the vampire patrons,” Rage said.

Cyrus had asked a similar question when he’d seen the interior of the bathrooms. “They were in the original building. The plans called for them to be bricked over on the outside and covered with wall board on the inside, but it was decided instead to cover them with light-filtering film.” The same window treatment had been done on the ones at the front of the restaurant.

“Well, we’re sure as hell bricking them up during the rebuild,” Ven said. He folded his arms over his chest. “I am so fucking tired of the church. We’re not hurting them; we’re just trying to live our lives.”

Cyrus agreed wholeheartedly. Talk about holding a grudge. The leader of the church was a fanatic in the worst sense of the word, and he’d nearly cost Cyrus his life, not to mention the lives of the vampires working at the time.

Temple snapped his fingers suddenly. “Hey! The office across the street has cameras that face the opposite side. I bet we can see the alley from there.”

Cyrus handed the tablet back to Temple and turned to Brone. “When are they going to start on the cleanup?”

“We still have to let the human arson investigators finish their report, which will take a few days. We’re ready to start as soon as that’s done,” Brone said.

There hadn’t been any structural damage to the restaurant. It was an older building that had sat empty after Mishka bought it and the surrounding properties to protect the coven from the church moving into them.

“My impression is that the bomb maker didn’t really know what he was doing, and it wasn’t big enough to do the damage that they might have hoped for. They brought the ceiling down, but the actual structure is undamaged,” Brone said.

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