A Vampire's Curse: A Vampire, Fated Mates, Science Fiction Detective Novel (Vampire Detective Midnight Book 6) by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2022-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

PROSECUTOR

“Well.” Alan Rickson adjusted his headset, hitting a pressure trigger on the side. “I’m probably not really supposed to talk about his, but no one’s specifically told me not to talk about it, and really, no one’s asked me much of anything since telling me Gordon was found dead…”

He sounded bitter at the end.

Then, as if to brush it off, he made a noncommittal gesture with his hands.

Somehow, that vague flutter made one thing crystal-clear.

Alan Rickson wasn’t feeling all the obligated to whatever or whoever he felt might not want him to say anything about Gordon’s work.

“Anyway, no one even bothered to tell me they’d turned Gordan into a vampire.” Rickson said the words angrily, then winced, as if the reality of them was still hitting him in stages. “I can’t help but wonder if that could really be a coincidence.”

“It seems unlikely,” Nick agreed, giving Wynter a dark look.

She never took her eyes off Alan.

Nick strongly suspected she was reading the human.

For the same reason, he didn’t look at her for very long.

He focused back on Rickson.

“Gordon talked to you about his work?”

“Well. Sure.” Alan looked at Wynter, then back at Nick. “Clearly you two have that kind of marriage, as well. Gordon and I shared everything. No exceptions.”

That time, it was Nick’s turn to wince.

He bit his tongue, mostly to keep from telling the human again how sorry he was.

He was sorry though.

He was also angry.

“But you’re a lawyer right?” Nick pressed. “You can’t tell him everything.”

“Everything I could tell him, I did,” Alan said, his voice a little harder.

“Of course.” Nick cleared his throat, his voice gruff. “So what was this project? The one involving vampire venom?”

“I’m getting to that,” Alan said, a little pointedly.

A light erupted from one side of his headset.

The light sent a projection out from the camera by his ear.

Rickson leaned back, and a three-dimensional image unfolded over the coffee table that stood between the loveseat and the two chairs where Nick and Wynter sat. Nick looked up, adjusting his spine in the patterned cushion, squinting up at what looked like a warehouse by a large lake. He didn’t recognize the building, or the lake, or the surrounding land.

“Where is that?” he asked.

“Seoul,” Rickson answered promptly. “It’s where they first discovered it. Or designed it, really… then realized what it could do.”

Nick opened his mouth to ask, then shut it again.

Clearly Rickson intended to tell him.

Nick strongly got the impression he’d learn more if he kept his mouth shut.

“I admit,” Rickson said, glancing again at Nick, then at Wynter, then back at Nick. “I had wondered if there was some connection already. Even before you told me what they’d done to him. Once I saw the names of the people in the room with him when he’d been found… I suspected this had to be about that. About the project Gordon was working on at the end.”

Nick sat up straighter. “You recognized them? The other victims?”

“Yes.”

“All of them?”

Rickson nodded again. “All of them.

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