Dead Weight (Magic, Mayhem, and the Law in Precinct #153) by G.P. Robbins

Author:G.P. Robbins [Robbins, G.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen & Page Publishing
Published: 2023-07-24T18:30:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

“Warning noted and respected.”

Wednesday, April 12, 2057

Upper North Lake, Precinct 153

Cauldron City, Nebraska.

One coconut, pineapple, and mango binge later, Captain Farthan concocted several good threats to get me to shift back to human. Sophie took pity on me, and with the help of some products, a comb, and an hour, she tamed my hair before sending me home. As I’d come in well after midnight, I beelined for my couch, flopped onto it, and conked out, leaving the tagalong co-workers to see themselves out after confirming I made it inside without incident.

I woke to a slender finger poking my cheek. “Jace?”

Right. I had a dragoness living in my apartment with me, and if I didn’t feed her, she might try to feed me. Before I could say something stupid, my phone rang. I grunted and reached out for the device.

Alicia laughed and put it in my hand. After a bleary-eyed battle, I figured out how to answer and put the damned thing near my ear. “What?”

“It’s upside down,” the black dragoness informed me.

Damn it. I flipped the phone. “What?”

Captain Farthan laughed at me. “I would have let you sleep in a little longer, but we need you to come be the brains of our operation for a while. We have evidence.”

Maybe he had evidence, but I had a cracked pot theory, and if it bought me five more minutes of sleep, I’d fling it out with zero care of the consequences. “The killer was hired, and the hiring entity wants every unicorn and griffon in the city to destroy him, thus removing the evidence chain and limiting the chances of being arrested. Cash payments because the hire is too smart to write his crimes down. The killer-turned-kidnapper is either desperate, stupid, or both—or knows nothing about unicorns or griffons and just did as told. Can I go back to bed now?”

“You can’t go back to bed,” he replied.

I held the phone out to Alicia, who took it. “Tell him I’m going back to bed.” To make it clear I would not be moved from my couch, I grabbed the nearest object, which proved to be some papers, and shoved them over my head.

“Hello? Oh, Captain Farthan. Jace just threw papers over his head. I’ve been trying to get him up, but I don’t know if he’s going to be moving anytime soon. Where’s a good place to order breakfast? I paid just enough attention to his first cooking lesson to understand I will poison us both if I try right now. It would have been better to learn that before I had poisoned my grandpappy, but at least I’ve learned.”

There was a pause, and the black dragoness giggled. “No, he didn’t even make it to the bed. He’s on his couch. I tried to lure him to his bed, but all I’ve gotten out of him is a groan and some handwaving. No, he isn’t running a temperature. He’s just tired. That could be because someone kept him at work until after midnight.

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