The Dark Side by M. J. Scott

Author:M. J. Scott [Scott, M. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Vampire Romance, Werewolf Romance, Werewolves, Vampires, magic, Accountant, The Wild Side Series, FIC027120, FIC009060, FIC009000
Publisher: emscott enterprises
Published: 2014-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The conversation didn’t take long. Dan’s sentences got shorter and his voice sharper as he made his request. Finally he shoved the phone back in his pocket, scowling. “I’m going to escort him here. I don’t want the locals freaking out. I’ll meet you at the secure ward.”

“You’re doing the right thing,” I said as he opened the door.

“We’ll see.”

I took a few minutes to compose myself and wash my face. Then I went back to the room where Rhi’s parents waited and lied to them about Dan needing me for a statement and Rhi’s surgery going well so far, guilt slicing through my stomach like shards of glass the entire time. But I wasn’t going to be the one who took their hope away. Maybe Rhi could be controlled. Maybe there was a way to cure her—not of vampirism but of the ability to infect with a single bite—if it turned out she really was that kind of vampire.

Yeah and maybe there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

I escaped from Rhi’s room, feeling like her parents had been able to tell I was lying but telling myself that was just a hangover from them knowing me when I was a teenager. These days I had a pretty good poker face.

Finding the secure ward was a little more difficult. Most hospitals have one these days; a reinforced, no windows ward where vampire or were bites can be treated. Wards designed to contain a monster.

They’d never put me in one but I’d been surrounded by pack from the get go. Ani and Sam weren’t the type to let rogues run around their city. I hoped Marco had the same philosophy.

And that he and Dan wouldn’t kill each other over the next few days.

Two guards stood outside the door to the ward. Well, I assumed they were guards. They weren’t wearing uniforms but something about the subdued cut of their black suits and the flat stares I received as I stepped out of the elevator screamed military, or, at least, FBI to me.

I held up my FBI ID. “I’m Ashley Keenan. I work with Special Agent Gibson.”

“Agent Gibson isn’t here right now, ma’am.”

“I know. He asked me to meet him here.” The suits looked at each other then back at me. One of them touched his earpiece, murmuring something I couldn’t quite make out.

My hands clenched as I waited. Dan hadn’t been kidding about how seriously the government was taking this. Up until now my Taskforce ID had been enough to get me admitted wherever I wanted to go.

The guard stopped talking then swiped a passcard through the reader at the side of the door. “You can wait inside. Please don’t go into the ward itself.”

I nodded but didn’t speak. I wasn’t going to leave Rhi alone in a ward if I could get to her. But she might still be in surgery.

The heavy steel door slid shut behind me. The room looked like just about every other hospital waiting room I’d ever been in.

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