Vivi Anna - [Valorian Chronicles 04] by The Vampire's Quest

Author:The Vampire's Quest
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The bombing site was a media circus when they arrived. Television trucks and newspaper journalists, as well as curious onlookers, swarmed the area. Yellow police tape, and roadblocks, sectioned off two city streets around the central site, which was another bar. This one catered to lycans.

Unfortunately, the place wasn’t empty went the bomb went off. They didn’t know the exact tally of casualties, but with every minute the recovery crew dug in the rubble, the number increased. So far, they were looking at three dead and still counting.

Sophie’s stomach roiled as she ducked under the tape to enter the crime scene. She’d learned to close herself off for the most part; it was difficult to do the job if emotions clouded the process. But the possibility that she might know some of the victims hit her hard.

Sucking in a breath to calm her nerves, she tightened her grip on the handle of her crime scene kit and, head up, followed Gabriel into the blasted area. She felt a comforting hand on her shoulder as she walked. Glancing over her shoulder, she saw Kellen right behind her, his eyes full of sympathy.

It unnerved her that he sensed she needed that hand of support. Was she that readable? No other man, not even her own pack alpha, could tell what she was thinking.

“You can’t read my thoughts, can you?” she asked him cautiously.

He shook his head. “No, but I can read you.”

Uncertain if that made her happy or scared, she nodded to him, but didn’t say anything. She felt like a rookie on her first scene. There was no room for her emotions if she was going to do a thorough job. Later she could cry. But now the victims needed her to have her head on straight.

The first thing she noticed upon entering the scene was the size of the blast radius. Twice the diameter of the one at the medical center and the doctor’s apartment. The bomb obviously was twice the size. Was their bomber escalating? It didn’t make sense to her, especially if the initial bombs were meant for the doctor.

Kellen was next to her, surveying the damage. “It’s not the same guy.”

“That’s what I was thinking.”

Gabriel stopped and looked at him. “You can tell that right off?”

“The blast radius is too big for a simple pipe bomb. Our guy likes simplicity and uniformity. This mess,” he waved his hand around at the massive destruction, “was caused by C-4 or an equivalent explosive agent.”

Gabriel surveyed the area and nodded. “The superintendent thinks they’re all related. Or at least he wants them to be, to make his job easier.”

“He’s a politician. Of course he wants it easy,” Sophie added.

“Okay, let’s work the scene, gather our evidence and get back to the lab to figure this one out.”

“Do you think it’s this NORM group?” Kellen asked.

Gabriel’s face darkened and Sophie knew anger simmered just under the surface of his usually calm exterior. “Yes, I do. There are quite a few humans who work and live here.

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