Wormwood Summer (San Amaro Investigations Book 1) by Kai Butler

Author:Kai Butler [Butler, Kai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

After an enjoyable hour, when cuddling had overtaken passion, my stomach rumbled, waking both of us from our easy post-coital doze.

“I hope that food was sturdy,” I said.

He grinned and stood, naked. “Come and find out.”

Amused, I grabbed a pair of sweat pants and followed him into the living room where he was digging through a duffel bag. He pulled out his own pair of lounge pants, and I huffed a laugh when I saw an Adidas logo. If the man owned a pair of white tube socks, they were probably name brand, too.

As I watched, he picked up the two large paper bags and put them on my kitchen counter, grabbing plates out of the cabinet. A large, colorful salad came out first and I groaned.

“Is this about my refrigerator?” I asked.

“I’m just saying, you’re about to die of scurvy. A few more vegetables might prevent you from losing your teeth,” he said, portioning it out between the plates. He took out some tacos I was excited about until I sniffed and didn’t smell that telltale rich scent of cooked meat. They must be filled with some vegetarian non-meat. I squinted suspiciously when he portioned out beans and rice, but they looked normal.

“What’s in the other bag?” I asked.

“Be a good boy and you’ll find out,” he said. And hello, that voice. If I wasn’t starving, I would have dragged him back to the bedroom.

I took my plate and fork back to the couch and poked at the salad. He sat down next to me and watched me make faces at the salad for a minute before sighing.

“Are you going to try it?” he asked. “Because I can promise it won’t taste any different if you stab it into wilting.”

“Fine,” I muttered. “But you’d better tell me about the autopsy.”

Watching me take a bite, he said, “It went about the same as the incubus. We found a trace of the spell under UV light, but it looked like whatever went wrong with the incubus’s spell had been worked out by the time he got to the vampire. The expert is staying an extra day to examine both bodies and write up her report, but she said that the incubus was probably killed about three months ago, and the vampire two.”

“Who was patrolling the area? Or do most cops think vampires spend all their time face down, not breathing?” I asked, frowning. With a courage I wasn’t sure I had, I stuffed a bite of the salad into my mouth and chewed.

“We rarely patrol looking for vamps,” Nick said. “But it revealed that some patrol logs had been altered to make it look like the officers did their rounds.”

“What about the incubus? I mean, the garbage company couldn’t have been ignoring that dumpster for three months, even in Sintown.” My words came out around another mouthful of salad. I wasn’t going to tell him, but the salad tasted amazing. Whatever the dressing was, it made beets and Swiss chard taste not only edible, but like something that I’d want to eat a lot of.

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