The Blood Of Ivy by Jessica King

Author:Jessica King [King, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 11:50 a.m. | Central European Standard Time

When they arrived back at St. Peter’s, Father Dominick spotted them and waved them over. “I was going to call you. I think we might have found something.” He led them back into the offices and ushered them to the computers where feeds from security cameras littered the room. “The cameras outside were still on. I thought they had been off but look here.”

He fast-forwarded through the crowds leaving the basilica until the crowd had mostly moved away from the doors, only a few trying to capture last-minute photos in the dying light of the evening. As the picture grew gray with the evening, a woman approached the church, and Father Dominick slowed the video. A woman in a long dress came to the doors and tried to open them. Rattled them. Then walked away toward the side of the building. Father Dominick moved from one video to the next with an ease Ivy had not expected. She shot a glance at Vince. He shifted his eyes to Father Dominick’s hands and back to Ivy. He was thinking it, too. He was the eldest of the three priests they’d met, and he had a strong command of the technology that was manipulated on the night of Tatiana’s death.

Ivy pulled her focus back to the video, showing the woman trying her way all around the church, unable to get in. The woman on the video even went to knocking, appearing to be begging, even. Why make noise if you’re sneaking in? Was she meeting someone else?

“She couldn’t get in,” Ivy said.

“Indeed,” Father Dominick said. “This is twenty-five minutes after the last few people left the church.”

“But wasn’t it too crowded to kill anyone before that? I would guess she’d maybe died seconds before this,” Ivy said. “If she couldn’t get inside, wouldn’t that make her the only person we know for certain didn’t kill Tatiana?”

Father Dominick shook his head. “I don’t think you understand. This woman is the leader of the Roman witches coven. She’s known to try dealing with the necromantic arts.” His nose twisted as though the words themselves smelled horrible to him.

“Jesus was raised from the dead,” Vince said matter-of-factly.

Father Dominick’s head jerked up, his face an odd mix of emotions when he looked at Vince. “That was different, Detective.”

“God, Vince,” Ivy said, covering her face with one hand. When she opened her eyes, she could see the priest now looking at her with raised eyebrows at the flippant use of his Lord’s name. “Sorry, Father,” she said, biting down on her tongue. From behind Father Dominick, Vince was pressing his lips together in an attempt at holding in a laugh.

“What matters here is she might have been returning to the scene of the crime, or at the very least, she knew before anyone else that Tatiana was dead,” Father Dominick said, zooming in for a closer picture of the woman, her eyes locked with the camera, her face contorted.

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