Under a Blood Moon by Rachel Graves

Author:Rachel Graves [Graves, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal, witch, werewolf
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The kitchen counter wore red stains, a brighter, sunnier color than the blood I’d seen recently. I shivered a little anyway, drawing my eyes to the pints of bright red berries. The plastic containers of three empty pints were stacked neatly. Jakob was cutting a fourth pint into quarters, leaving the scraps on a newspaper. I could see a fine dusting of sugar on top of the berries that were already cut.

“Miles away from here is an organic, family-run farm. A few years ago, I took a chance on them. Now every summer I can get the best of field.” He offered me a berry too perfect to cut. “Sweets to the sweet.”

I’d been eating Indigo’s chocolate all week but the tart juice of the strawberry that had been on the vine just hours before still dazzled me with its perfection. Strawberries are the taste of summer, red and full. I savored the first one, but devoured the next four.

“They’re divine,” I said between bites of heaven.

“I was worried you might be allergic,” he frowned. We’d talked for long hours about everything and nothing. It felt wrong that he didn’t know if I was allergic. “I guess not.”

“No allergies, none. Cook whatever you’d like for me and I’ll happily try it.” I reached for a fresh pint, intent on getting more. Distracted, it took me a minute to add, “Within reason, none of that gross head cheese stuff or anything.”

“Black pudding? Haggis?”

“No!” I caught a bit of the paper between berry tops. “Are all of the headlines about the werewolf killings or just the ones I can see from here?”

“Most of them, but they haven’t been described as werewolf killings. I can’t tell if the papers are being sensational or purposely ignorant. They keep alluding to some mysterious killer who must have supernatural powers. They go on to rule out everything but a werewolf without mentioning it.”

“There hasn’t been an official statement saying ‘werewolf’. It’s too soon for us to have any hard evidence yet.”

“Isn’t your insight enough?’

“It’s enough for the department, for us to base an investigation on, but for a conviction we need fiber, tissue that sort of thing. We won’t tell the press until we have something that can hold up in court. If we went ahead now the WPL would cry foul. They might even sue the city.”

“So the papers skirt the truth, ensuring that no one can properly protect themselves, because one small special interest group might be offended?” His voice dripped with disdain.

“Pretty much.” I popped another berry into my mouth and thought for a minute. As the only death witch anyone had heard of in the last century, I was never going to have to face this problem. Jakob was a member of a supernatural minority. “Would you feel differently if we thought the killers were vampires?”

“If the killers were vampires I’d deal with them before the papers could print the story.” He was grim.

“You’re avoiding the question.” I kissed him on the cheek as I went for a glass of lemonade.

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