The Strip by Heather Killough-Walden

Author:Heather Killough-Walden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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ISBN: 9781452655208
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 2011-12-30T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve, The Blaze

They chalked it up to a gas leak.

All of the proper authorities from all of the right departments were all over it within minutes of the explosion. The Strip’s main access was cut off from both ends and the sound of choppers whirling overhead was accompanied by the songs of sirens from below.

The second-most amazing thing, the news anchor said, was that The August had been built with such sturdy forethought, the explosion only managed to set the first three levels on fire – and did no damage, whatsoever, to the steel foundation and frame of the sky-rise hotel.

The first-most amazing thing was that the first three floors of The August had been utterly and completely empty at the time.

The mayor had something to say about that…

“I personally think that the opening of Magic Mirrors had a lot to do with it and the timing was perfect, but I’m not a fool. This is nothing short of a miracle.”

The lives of the werewolves who had gone into The August that afternoon were probably indebted to James Valentine, who had smelled the gas and had taken control, issuing everyone out of the basement.

But the lives of the humans had been saved by Lily Kane and her ability to divine future events. That was the miracle that happened on The Strip.

Malcolm, too, could smell the gas before the explosion rocked the foundation of The August hotel. He had perceived it; a very faint scent that wafted in and out of existence, a thin thread of danger that took a back seat to a wolf’s instinct to protect his mate. He’d noticed it. But, in his anger, he’d ignored it.

The anger that ruled his every functioning fiber in the dungeon was the same anger riding him hard at that very moment, as they sat Vincent Cromwell down in a motel room on the outskirts of town and told him to talk.

“Gabriel Phelan is a Hunter,” Cromwell said right away. “And not only is he a Hunter, but he’s the leader of the Hunters and has been for more than fifty years.”

At this, Malcolm’s gaze shot to James Valentine, who seemed as surprised as he was.

“Does he go by any other name?” Valentine asked, putting two and two together.

“David Reese,” Cromwell replied, nodding. “And because I know you’re about to ask – yes – St.James has known him for years. He was her trainer in Pittsburgh. He killed her parents and then… sort of… stalked her, for lack of a better word. He’s always planned on making her his mate. He just likes to toy with people and because she was a female born, she was perfect for-” At that, he cut himself off, as if he knew that saying anything further on the subject would cause the already boiling wrath within Cole to finally blow its lid.

The Council had recalled most of its enforcers directly after the explosion, along with the witch, Dannai. However, a few of the burly werewolves

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