Strangers in the Night by E M. Jeanmougin & Jay Wright

Author:E M. Jeanmougin & Jay Wright [Jeanmougin, E M. & Wright, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

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Happy Hunting

It was early afternoon when Alcander cut the feeds for the second time. They timed the moment deliberately, waiting until the hotel was at its busiest so they could attempt to blend in with the crowd of guests coming and going. Three of the five remaining reeds would be used to mask their individual auras and, with any luck, once they were amongst the crowd, it would be easy to slip away undetected.

Jasper believed the Hunters valued their secrecy enough to try to avoid causing too much of a scene, but knew also they could be very clever when it came to finding ways around being detected by civilians. It wasn’t much of a plan, and more of a gamble than he preferred, but it would have to suffice.

Jasper, Crimson, and Alcander moved out into the hall, Crimson taking point and Jasper following in the rear, with Alcander in between them.

The elevator was too dangerous; if the Hunters had some way of stopping it, they would be trapped and, frankly, selfishly, Jasper didn’t want to be stuck in a lift with two panicked demons should something go wrong. Not that he thought they would harm him, more that it simply didn’t seem like his idea of a good time.

They made for the stairs at a run. Crimson reached the door at the end of the hall and was shouldering it open when the door Jasper was tasked with watching popped open a sliver. “Behind us,” hissed Jasper, his voice soft so only the demons would hear.

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The demons had been quiet all night. Ryan, his eyes heavy with sleeplessness, sat at his computer, at the desk near the window, and watched the identical lines of unmoving doors, the empty hallway. Holly and Constance were sharing a room four levels down, and Stefan and Colt were two levels below that.

Constance’s assessment of Jasper was grim. She didn’t think it was a good idea to contact him and attempt to coerce him out of the demons’ company. It was Selena who decided they would attempt to capture him instead.

Holly and Constance set the trap days ahead of time—a warding charm on the twenty-eighth floor, one in the stairwell and one in the elevator. They’d only held off thus far to make certain they had all their ducks in a row. They intended to spring the trap late at night, when other patrons were unlikely to interfere.

Selena was suspicious of the pair’s behavior, and she decided they would keep an eye on them every waking moment. So Ryan was doing just that, but it was boring, and he found it difficult to focus for hours and hours on what was essentially nothing. He rubbed his eyes and stood up, stretched his arms and cracked his bones, then turned towards Selena, who was sleeping in the bed nearest the window, to tell her it was her shift.

“Hey, Captain, you wanna…” He did a double take. The feed went black very suddenly. A moment later, it went blue, with the same error message he’d received the other night.

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