Wolves at the Door by Lidiya Foxglove

Author:Lidiya Foxglove [Foxglove, Lidiya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Helena

Gaston worked pretty cheap, so I guess I should have known there was a catch. He was only here to scope us out and now he wanted to sabotage Byron. We all sat down with our sandwiches and looked at him skeptically. I was relieved to see that the others didn’t seem to trust him either, since they didn’t know Byron like I did.

Old vampires really were hard to trust. A young vampire, that was one thing. These days, the magical community had good networks of communication and ways of getting blood safely to vampires like it was a normal part of the food supply chain.

But a three hundred year old vampire? This guy had killed people. It was just a fact. I didn’t know if he was actually from France or had started out right here in the settlement of Louisiana, but he had surely taken advantage of all the travelers and rogues traveling on the Mississippi River. There was probably a time in his life when he killed people without thinking much about it.

That sort of thing sucked away your humanity, leaving you with plenty of a vampire’s innate power to entice and enchant, but no real soul.

“You look at me like I’m a villain. I’m trying to help you,” Gaston said.

“Before we get started, I want a truth spell,” I said.

“Fine by me,” he said, waving both of his hands toward himself. “Bring it on. I only intend to tell the truth.”

Damn. I was hoping he’d fight me a little.

“So what’s your deal and why should we trust you?” Jake asked.

“Jake, give me a second to cast the spell already.” I didn’t just cast a quickie, I got on my hands and knees and drew a circle around Gaston’s chair, binding him to the truth as long as he was within it. Billie polished off her whole sandwich before I was done.

“Okay, I’m done. You have five minutes. Go,” Billie said.

“You people are so impatient considering I’m about to tell you something so important. You trust this demonic ghost without knowing the first thing about his motives. Why? Who is he fucking? All of you?”

Jake spit out his coffee when Gaston’s eyes swept over him. “No! I trust him because Hel does.”

Billie looked at me. “I don’t really know the ghost but Mr. Greenwood did tell me about him. I knew they were friends.”

“Umm…well…I do trust Byron,” I said, feeling extremely on the spot. How could I explain why I trusted him without admitting that I was, indeed, fucking him…or getting fucked by him, as it usually worked out. But I did trust my own intuition. “You see, I’ve spent my whole life surrounded by bitches so I think I read people pretty well. I don’t trust easily. Byron can’t tell me much, but I believe what he does tell me because he never sets off my asshole radar.”

Billie snorted. “I believe that.”

Gaston put his hands on the table. “Do you know who killed Byron and kept him from speaking?”

“No…”

“It was his so-called friends.

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