Aberrant Magic 1: Deductions by Lyn Gala

Author:Lyn Gala [Gala, Lyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTTQ, Multicultural, Paranormal, Suspense, Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2016-06-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Darren understood that affecting someone’s free will was one of the most offensive of all the moral lapses a shaman might commit. He never wanted to cross that line, but he wasn’t sure how to open a conversation about how he might control the magic to avoid doing it again. During the entire drive back to the offices, Boucher clenched his teeth and took sharp corners any time Darren tried to say anything.

The wrath of Boucher was never pretty.

Darren kept silent as Boucher signed them into the employee parking lot and then headed to the holding cells to sign the paperwork to have their suspect transferred up to an interrogation room. They were back in the elevator before Boucher spoke.

“Take primary,” Boucher ordered.

Darren nodded.

“If you can’t do this without engaging your Talent, tell me now because this could put the case at risk.”

“Absolutely no magic. I can do that,” Darren vowed. He wasn’t sure how to make it happen, but he would. Besides, questioning mundanes was his job on the task force. Mundanes had a right to demand that shamans be barred from the interrogation room, and fanatics got absolutely twitchy around magic users like Coretta and Traci. This was Darren’s job just like computers were Wyatt’s job and annoying Boucher with incorrect English was Les’s job. “I have this,” Darren promised.

For one horrible second, he thought Boucher might refuse to let him try, but then the elevator opened, and Boucher nodded before heading for the interrogation rooms. Darren’s chest hurt at the suspicion that colored Boucher’s attitude. For all the rough times they’d gone through as a team, Boucher had never questioned Darren’s ethics.

It wasn’t as if he’d tried to use his Talent against the victim.

Right now Darren didn’t have time for his own emotional wounds because he had a suspect waiting for him. He walked toward the observation room so he could read the background information before starting. When Darren reached the central prep area, he expected Boucher to follow him and read the suspect’s profile over his shoulder. Instead, Boucher kept on going down the corridor.

Darren nodded at the agent in charge of the room before settling down with his suspect’s information. The monitor showed the killer handcuffed to the table. He was in his late forties or early fifties, and he was not well preserved. He looked saggy. The heavy jowls and swollen face suggested alcohol abuse.

After opening his file, Darren read through the details. Carl Ranger was an auto mechanic and member of the First Purity Church of Maryland like Zach Nestor. So that gave him a motive for a hate crime, but it didn’t explain why he would charge the crystals and sell them on the magical black market. Wyatt and Frane had done a good job digging up financial information. Ranger deposited two hundred in cash every week, so he was working for someone under the table, because he didn’t have a job the IRS knew about. He was on the roster

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