Felony Magic: A Druidverse Urban Fantasy Novel (The Cerberus Paranormal Detective Series Book 3) 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: 2023-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

NINE

“I didn’t sign up to be a fucking soccer mom.” We’d only been driving for half an hour, and I already missed the days—yesterday, to be precise—when it was only me and the scratchy sounds of classic rock blaring through the speakers.

“But it suits you so well.” Hill shot me the biggest shit-eating grin she could muster. “Just treat Sheila with respect.”

She and I had already had a verbal sparring match before we left Camp Stanley. She’d argued taking her EV to the job was more economical, environmentally friendly, and provided more cargo space for equipment.

I’d countered with, “EVs are pieces of shit, and I don’t want to spend more time with you than I need to.”

Little did I know, Strickland had already decided we would use the EV, claiming carpooling and fuel efficiency would help with the budget long term. As director, the budget was second only to the number of dangerous supes we cleared from the street. That didn’t mean he wasn’t taking sick satisfaction in this new team he’d created, specifically how much I didn’t want to be a part of it.

To make matters worse, Raine had informed Melvin and me about the name she’d given the vehicle: Sheila.

“Come on, you two,” Melvin pleaded from the back seat. He’d surrendered the front to the two of us without complaint. “We’re on the same side.”

Raine snorted. I shook my head. Melvin was more than a little disappointed.

We were en route to Geronimo, one of the small communities between San Antonio and Austin that attracted German settlers a couple centuries back. Maybe one thousand residents spread across big lots and bigger ranches. All the rich folks that flew in from New England liked to visit the village for its great antique stores, Hill helpfully informed us.

Comms caught wind of a 911 call claiming grave robbers dug up a couple of caskets in the local cemetery. The working theory was that ghosts in the area possessed some corpses or a fuckwad was experimenting with necromancy. Either way, reports of paranormal activity all over Austin and the Hill Country were already flooding in, so Strickland sent his new A-Team out in case it was a necromancer.

“But keep it quiet, Mendoza,” the director’s words echoed in my head. “The last thing I need is our team of monsters making headlines. The higher ups will fuck us both if that happens.”

Politics and forced cooperation with a snotty kid and a ’thrope that tried to kill me… I don’t know where it all went so wrong.

I tried pushing the thoughts from my mind. At first, I wanted to think about Cara. But all my thoughts were tainted by how pissed she’d sounded on the phone.

You really fucked that one up, Mendoza, I thought.

Toni’s face filtered into my thoughts: the way she laughed at my shitty jokes, how she wasn’t afraid to go toe-to-toe with me, and mostly how she was into strange shit without being a supe herself. Part of me wondered how refreshing it would be to date someone who wasn’t a culpeothrope, or any sort of SNE for that matter.

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