Breach of Magic: A Druidverse Urban Fantasy Novel (The Cerberus Paranormal Detective Series Book 2) by M.D. Massey & D. William Landsborough

Author:M.D. Massey & D. William Landsborough [Massey, M.D. & Landsborough, D. William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Modern Digital Publishing
Published: 2023-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

At least it wasn’t tough to find the café. Technology can be a real pain in the ass with all the hot takes, dancing, and stupid shit people post in an attempt to get famous, but it makes tracking down a vampire coffee shop really easy when you have a name. A quick search not only gave me the address for La Crème, but it pulled up a bunch of social posts and news articles with a familiar name: Luther.

Of all the people I thought Luther might have been, café owner wasn’t one of them. I made a mental note to look more into the entrepreneur and presumed vamp after I was done with the case.

I had to admit, though, I was expecting more than the café I found. Maybe some heavily tinted windows, heavy metal playing, and a much darker BDSM vibe.

Vampires are into leather and bondage, right? Is that stereotyping?

But parked across the road from the café, everything looked… normal. Hipsters leaving with coffee cups as wide as their forearms, beanies on despite the early evening heat. Maybe they were students pulling all-nighters in need of a caffeine hit. Or they were getting drinks filled with syrup and plant milk that took five minutes just to order right.

I sat there for over an hour, long enough for the surrounding buildings to cover the street in shadows. Every moment that passed where I wasn’t doing something drove the serum-driven dominant side of me closer to boiling over. I had satiated it by tracking the vampire and the not-mothman. Even visiting the morgue seemed to keep it calm.

Anything that took me one step closer to proving myself kept it at bay. But sitting here, doing nothing, made me twitchy.

Instead of giving in and kicking down the coffee shop’s door, I turned on the app Perez had recommended through the car’s speakers. Whether or not the ocean noises and soothing British voice actually helped was up for debate. But I didn’t get out and do something stupid, so I considered it a win.

For a good ten minutes, at least.

The darker the streets got, though, the more I realized I was wasting valuable time. If the thing that killed the Jane Doe and those four others was hunting at night, nothing was stopping it from killing someone else as the sun set.

So, I stepped out of the car and crossed the street, earning myself a honk from someone I cut off.

Ignore him, Tony, I repeated in my head.

Instead, I flipped the driver off and continued to the sidewalk in front of La Crème. My phone vibrated in my pocket, but I ignored it. Probably Strickland wanting to reprimand me for disobeying a direct order. Again.

Through the window, I could see baristas helping a line of people get their drinks, some couples sitting at tables, and a handful of college kids on laptops, either working on their future screenplay or homework.

The door opened before I could reach for it. Warm air spilled out from inside the café, carrying the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, baked goods, and corpses.

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