Dragon's Blood (Black Planet Book 1) by Belinda McBride

Author:Belinda McBride [McBride, Belinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BelMac
Published: 2016-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Once the pasta was ready, they took their plates to a table by a window. They ate while looking out over the rooftops to the bay. He could see Oakland gleaming across the water. Alcatraz Island was a dark smudge in the night. The view was as elegant as that of a top rated restaurant.

“So, what do we do next, Chen?” She soaked up a bit of red sauce on a crust of bread and looked at him expectantly.

“Fighting or the investigation?” He decided to forget his refusal to help. Now he was invested in the hunt. And he was intrigued.

“Both. I think it came out to look at me. Maybe it remembers me from before. The last body was a week ago. We’ve got about three days.” Greene’s people had complied a rough profile. The thing was killing about every ten days.

That wasn’t much time. Annie was in rough shape from that last fight. She needed time to recover. But how else were they to track and lure the killer?

“There’re matches almost every night in the City. I could talk to some people.” He looked down at his plate, unhappy to bring up the topic of another fight.

“Okay, but aren’t the City fight a little high stakes for me?”

“Not you. Me.” He looked at her. “It’s after me, isn’t it?”

Annie looked stricken. So, she did care, and more than a little. Or maybe she was still locked in her terror of the beast. She set down her fork and folded her hands on the edge of the table. In all their hours of training and preparation, they’d both ignored the fact that he wasn’t just a coach, he was a fighter. An elite fighter. Many didn’t survive the City matches.

“It’ll be good, Annie. Out there, I won’t be the only target. And I’ll have you free to watch my back.” It made sense. And it kept her safe a little longer.

She bit her lip, and he fixated on her sweet, bee-stung mouth. She wasn’t wearing make-up, but her lips were rose-red, her teeth straight and white. She looked up, saw him staring and even in the dim light, he saw color rise to her cheeks. He looked away, out the window. Cool breeze swept in, ruffling his hair.

Lisa would never have allowed him to let it grow so long. Annie liked it. He’d caught her looking more than once. She was looking now.

She cleared her throat and picked up her fork. Her vulnerable moment had passed. “I’m just not that familiar with the City. I’d have a better chance hunting it here in Wharf.”

“Then I can look for a match here. Tell folks I’m getting back to the alleys, looking for raw talent. Would that work for you?”

“Yes, that would be better.”

She still looked troubled. Her black hair was damp. It tumbled down her white silk robe in an inky spill. She looked at him fully. “Why’d you come back to Wharf? You and Lisa had such a nice place in the City.

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