Reaper of Souls (SPECTR) by Hawk Jordan L

Author:Hawk, Jordan L. [Hawk, Jordan L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-06-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“I’m fine,” Caleb said. He sat on the curb, knees drawn up to his chest, while Gray twitched and snarled just under his skin. “Goddamn it, we almost had it!”

John crouched beside him, looking grim. As well he might—what had started as a simple incubus killing had just gotten a lot more complicated. “You did your best,” he soothed.

Caleb sighed, but he had to admit, yeah, they really had. If the incubus had just played by the rules, Gray would have chased it down and that would have been that. Case closed.

Instead, he apparently had human helpers shooting sniper rifles and giving him a lift in the van. And oh yeah, running over Gray’s ass.

He could still remember the feel of bones breaking. Gray healed fast, but not instantaneously, and by the time they’d been able to get to their feet, the van had been out of sight.

He remembered how other things had felt, too. Running and jumping. Hunting. Gray’s certainty and how, for a minute, everything had fallen away, and they existed only as pure purpose. Unified.

“What about you?” Caleb asked, forcing his mind onto another track. A bruise bloomed on John’s chin, but otherwise he looked okay. “Sorry Gray tackled you so hard, but there just wasn’t any time.”

John’s blue eyes darkened slightly, with thought or emotion, Caleb couldn’t say. “I can recover from a few bruises a lot easier than from a bullet in the head.” He reached out and wrapped his fingers around Caleb’s wrist. “Thank you.”

Caleb shrugged awkwardly. “Thank Gray. He acted way faster than I could have.”

John nodded, fingers tightening. “Then thank Gray for me.”

God, this was weird. Almost as weird as the whole conversation when John had made his latest try at an exorcism. “He can hear you. You don’t have to tell me to relay messages.”

“Got it.” John glanced away, as if gathering his thoughts. “So the incubus wasn’t still human? His forty days had passed?”

“Hell, I don’t know.” Caleb rubbed tiredly at his eyes with his free hand. “He didn’t look human, not really. Sort of, but his eyes…and the way he moved…but shit, I’m sure I didn’t look human at the moment, either.”

“True, but Gray seems to be an exception,” John said with a rueful twist of his lips. “From your description, it certainly sounds as if the possession has become permanent.”

“So we could have eaten it.”

Don’t sulk.

“I do not sulk.”

“What now?” Caleb asked.

John let go of his wrist and sat back. “The sniper is in custody and on his way to HQ, if he’s not there already. While Kaniyar and Pittman interrogate him, Sean and some of the others are heading to the address on his driver’s license.”

“So we’re going to find out what the fuck is going on?”

John rose to his feet and held out his hand. “I sure as hell hope so,” he said ruefully, as he pulled Caleb to his feet. “I think we’ve spent enough time groping around in the dark, don’t you?”

* * *

The next morning, John once again addressed the entire department in the conference room.

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