Birds of Prey by Crissy Smith

Author:Crissy Smith [Smith, Crissy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Cody pointed Byron to where Aubrey and Mike were standing with another man against the railing two doors down from the open room.

“Watch them,” he ordered. “They are not to go anywhere.”

“Yes, sir,” Byron said as he moved quickly.

Fuming, Cody entered the motel room.

Of course Aubrey hadn’t called him as soon as she’d realised she had something solid to go on. No, she’d had to go off on her own and come across another dead body. He wanted to strangle her. And at the same time pull her into his arms to comfort her after finding the scene. But he would have to think about that later. Right now, he had work to do.

The kid on the bed—and damn, he was just a kid—was lying flat with legs stretched out and arms out to the sides.

Dark blood spattered the body and soaked the sheets. Cody gulped, hard—everything from the mattress to the walls was covered. Even tiny, gooey droplets dangled from the edges of the nearby lampshade. The stench was enough to make him gag.

Cody’s sharpened senses always were a bit of a hindrance at crime scenes. It could be overwhelming at times. He’d learned several tricks to get through the blood, guts, and other disgusting things he found himself in.

It was never easy.

He peered down at the wound across the neck. The edge of the cut wasn’t smooth. There was a jaggedness to it that told him that it had been a military blade. He had seen it before.

“Make sure you get plenty of pictures,” he ordered.

When Ryder didn’t respond, Cody looked up at him.

Ryder was staring at the body.

“What?” Cody asked.

“He was at the bar last night,” Ryder told him.

Cody frowned. “You’re kidding.”

“He was at one of the tables by the door. We passed him when we left. He was with another man. Black hair, about six foot two, hairy and ugly as sin,” Ryder provided.

“Did you get a picture?”

“Yeah.”

“But no sign of our guy?”

Ryder shook his head.

“So did we make someone nervous last night? Or was the kid going to be killed no matter what?” Cody backed away from the body to look around the rest of the room. The closet doors were missing. Five shirts and two pairs of jeans hung inside it.

A pile of dirty clothes lay on the floor.

He strolled to the bathroom. Small bottles sat scattered around the tiny lavatory. The kid had obviously been living on a tight budget.

Cody had to wonder why anyone would want to live this way.

Why hadn’t he been trying to join one of the groups? Cody knew he was a bird shifter. Owl was his guess, but he would need more information before he knew for sure.

He could have joined the Flock or even the Owl Parliament. They would have made sure that he was taken care of. The groups of shifters took care of one another. His family had always been a member of the Flock.

A Flock, which was made up of several different species, had worked well for them.

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