Scarlet Dusk by Megan J. Parker

Author:Megan J. Parker [Parker, Megan J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 21956962
Publisher: Tiger Dynasty Publishing
Published: 2014-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

“An atlas?” Zane laughed, “Really? We have millions of dollars of top-of-the-line computer equipment literally right behind you and you’re using an atlas?”

Raith sighed, “Let me start by remarking that it’s because of things like this atlas that the information on those computers exist. I’d also like to add that, with Zoey unconscious, nobody seems to know how to work the millions of dollars of top-of-the-line computer equipment short of logging onto Facebook or watching porn.”

Zane frowned, “I thought I cleared the history…”

Raith chuckled, “Busted.”

Zane rolled his eyes, “Moving right along to Raith’s ancient map of wonders.”

Raith laughed at that, “Fair enough.” He pulled out the file that Zane had gotten from the club and flipped it open; Zane seeing that a bunch of the pages had been highlighted and scribbled on. “These are all of the various events that your informant felt had something to do with Maledictus, and, in that, he wasn’t wrong. Mind you, yes, some of these are unrelated—either having some connection to other clan cases that have been wrapped up since then or random on-goings and a few pranks—but, for the most part, these all outright stink of that asshole.” Raith pushed five of the pages—all of them with a red X scribed in the upper-right of each page—off the table.

Zane stared at him. “Really?” he nodded to the pages that now littered the floor, “Was that necessary? You could’ve just—”

“It was for effect, asshole,” Raith sighed, “an effect, I’d like to point out, that you just deflated.” He shook his head and spread out the remaining pages before taking out a Sharpie. “I was looking through these before I came to get you, because I genuinely think I’ve narrowed in on his hideout,” he shook his head, looking over at Zane, “but I don’t know the area well enough to determine where exactly.” He opened the atlas to their city—Zane already seeing a few marks from Raith’s Sharpie—and pointed the tip of the marker to Ben’s club on the map. “This is where you first spotted him before he led you to the lumber yard”—he dragged the capped tip across the map in the direction they’d taken—“which actually tells us something.”

Zane frowned, “What? That the asshole likes wood?”

Raith cupped his face in his free palm. “Sometimes I just cannot believe that I actually went on missions with you. No, you dunce! It has nothing to do with the lumber yard, it’s the direction!”

Zane looked back at the map and frowned, shaking his head, “What about it?”

Raith retraced the path from the club to the lumber yard several more times as he spoke. “A lot of animals—birds especially—will, when the threat of a nearby predator is felt, travel away from their nest or burrow. It’s an instinct—a baser one—to lead the threat away from their home; to protect their families.”

Zane’s eyes widened, looking at the map. “Then that son of a bitch high-tailed it to the lumber yard because…”

Raith was already nodding.

Zane studied the map harder, taking in the various marks that Raith had already applied.

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