Edge of Night by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan [Jordan, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-09-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Luca pulled open the program on his computer that would allow him to look up information on Asher Kondan. Not a strictly kosher use of his authority in the Bureau, but it was for a good cause, so he didn’t think twice about bending the rules. The phone on his desk rang, and he glanced at it, seeing Tess’s name on the small screen.

Since she wasn’t the type to call and chat him up, he snagged the phone and pressed it to his ear. He continued to click through pages on his computer that would lead him to a search field. “Cavalli.”

Not bothering to say hello, she got right down to business. “Elinor Hammond is down here to collect her son’s effects and officially identify his remains. She asked to see you.”

He fought a snarl at the interruption. He really wasn’t interested in being yanked away from something relevant to deal with a dead case, but tough shit, that was his job. “I’ll be down there in a bit.”

“Hurry.” The word was furtive, edged with nerves. “She’s freaking me out, Cavalli.”

That made him sit up straight. If Tess was asking him for help, she was serious. “On my way.”

Bypassing the elevator, he took the stairs down three at a time. In less than a minute, he was pushing through the door to the morgue. The same keening wail he’d heard from Elinor the day her son died pierced the air, making his sensitive vampire ears ache in the enclosed glass and tile space.

Tess stood outside her own exam room, watching the female vampire through the window. The she-wolf paced a few steps, stopped, fidgeted, her hands clenching and unclenching. Relief flooded her face when he approached. Definitely not normal.

“What’s she been doing? Just screaming like this?” Luca sent his private thoughts to her telepathically, not wanting to run across the same issue they’d had with Elinor listening in as they’d had at her son’s house.

“It’s not the screaming.” Tess was sharp enough to respond in kind, keeping their conversation confidential. Distress shone in her golden gaze. “It’s…I can’t put my finger on it. Some wolf instinct I don’t understand. A warning, maybe? Something’s not right. Something’s wrong with this woman.” She fidgeted some more, cleared her throat. “Peyton’s out of the building, so I called the agent in charge.”

“Understood. I won’t take it personally.” He stepped around her and into the room. There was no way for him to know what a werewolf might sense about Elinor, but he’d been around enough of them to understand they had abilities similar to vampires. Not that most vamps would admit that aloud, but those similarities meant Luca took wolf senses as seriously as he took his own.

If Tess said something wasn’t right, then something wasn’t right.

“Why don’t you call a couple of agents down to help me escort Mommy Dearest out of the building?” He didn’t even glance back as he sent the thought to her.

There was a low-level hiss to Elinor’s voice as she cried over her son’s body.

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