Mortal Ties by Eileen Wilks

Author:Eileen Wilks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 0425254925
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-01T21:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FIVE

THREE-PLUS hours later, Little Mo had made it through surgery. The doctors put his chances at around fifty percent, but they’d go up if he made it through the night. Beth was at the hotel in a small but luxurious room on their floor. Her friend Deirdre had opted to stay there with her tonight, which sort of negated the don’t-put-your-friends-in-danger argument, but at least they were guarded.

Murray was at Laban Clanhome. It was on a small ranch outside the city, much closer than Nokolai Clanhome—the ranch where the black dragon picked up his payment for overflying San Francisco once a week, in fact. This was one of the ways Laban had benefited from its association with Nokolai. The government paid them handsomely for providing Sam a cow or three. Housing Murray gave Laban another opportunity to regain face.

Tony was somewhere in San Francisco, presumably looking for Hugo. Rule was back at the hotel, and Lily was headed there.

“Did you eat?” Rule asked.

“I ordered in for everyone. Bad enough I kept them late. Didn’t have to keep them hungry, too. You ate, too, right?”

“It’s nine thirty-five.” Meaning of course he’d eaten. Rule never let himself get too hungry, and his metabolism insisted on plenty of fuel. “Pizza or hamburgers?”

“Hamburgers.”

“Extra pickles for yours.”

She smiled. “Right. See you in ten.” She disconnected.

“More like fifteen, in this traffic,” Scott said. He was driving. Lily sat up front with him; Mike and Todd were in the back. As squad leader, Scott probably should have been at the hotel, but she hadn’t argued when Rule wanted to send him and the others with her. She knew he trusted Scott the most. Rule had a real problem with the two of them splitting up when she might be targeted.

But he’d needed to stay at the hospital until Murray could be moved, and Lily couldn’t wait there with him. In the hours since she dropped her sister off at the hotel she’d talked to her father, Ruben, Grandmother, and the agent monitoring the taps on Jasper Machek’s various phone lines. Nothing of note there. Next she’d sat in on the SFPD interview with the man who’d probably given Little Mo and the rest their orders—Robert “Peep” Holland. The nickname was a reference to his first arrest. At the downy age of fifteen he’d been booked as a Peeping Tom, but he’d probably been planning a robbery, judging by his subsequent career. After that, she’d needed to brief Bergman and her people, and that had turned into a brainstorming session.

The interview with Peep had been brief and unproductive. Not Detective Jones’s fault. Peep had been around the block so many times he’d mapped out each crack in the sidewalk. He had no idea what they were talking about and he wanted his lawyer.

The session with Bergman and her people had gone better. Lily had needed to tell them about Jasper Machek’s unofficially missing lover, the theft of the prototype, and Robert Friar’s possible connection to both. She followed that with a rundown on Robert Friar—what was known, what was suspected, how his Gifts worked.

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