Wicked Games (Fang and Dagger Book 3) by JS Harker

Author:JS Harker [Harker, JS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

This chapter contains depictions of domestic abuse. My intent in the telling of these events was not gratuitous, but neither is it vague. You are the best keeper of your mind and deserve the opportunity to avoid content that may disrupt your health and enjoyment.

Errand time with Seamus alternated between killing pockets of “poachers” and taking notes in the back of the room while he did business with other leaders around town. The end of the year was apparently a big time for supernaturals. Seelie fey were at their weakest, while Unseelie fey were at their strongest—leading both to ask the master vampire to meet with them. There were assurances and gifts and discussions of the schedule for lavish social parties and who was going to be responsible for what when it came to dealing with the mundane authorities.

The most surprising meeting was the one with a ghoul patriarch. Zack’s family had always taught him that ghouls were the vulture version of humans and just as wild. But the family had gotten that wrong, too. Mr. Bander had a waxy skin tone, but he could’ve passed for human. A creepy human, but he was polite and seemed decent enough. The ghouls were how the coven disposed of bodies. Zack wasn’t sure if he was more disturbed about that or the fact that his first realization was how that was practical ecology. No part of a human went to waste, apparently, and there was less lingering evidence for police or hunters. It wasn’t the worst idea Zack had ever heard of. Yup. I’m definitely a vampire now.

They had just finished with a gathering of the Chicago-based lieutenants at a private club downtown. On the outside, it looked almost like a town house, but the inside was lush furnishings, fey and shifter servants, and willing humans. It was an exclusive donor house, only open to the elites that Seamus named. While everyone else at the meeting had had their pick of donors, two of the staff had brought Zack bound captives. He’d tried to keep from killing them, but he hadn’t pulled back in time.

Eating had been the last bit of the meeting, and Zack wiped at the corner of his mouth with his thumb as he followed Seamus down the steps to the street level. There was a spot of blood, and he felt more of it on his lips.

Seamus held out his hand for the key from the valet and handed Zack his handkerchief with the other. “I know you have these in a drawer at home.”

“I’ve never used them.” Zack took it and wiped at his mouth. He was almost sorry to let the blood dirty the cloth rather than find some way to consume it. A part of him tried to flinch at the thought, but he quelled it. “So I forget they exist.”

Seamus sighed. “Time was, a man didn’t go anywhere without them.”

“Wasn’t there a time before that where a man didn’t bother with them at all?” Zack asked.

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