Protect and Serve Hoofin' It to the Altar by Silvia Violet

Author:Silvia Violet
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: BIN 05896-01891
Published: 2012-08-27T14:00:00+00:00

10 Drew

The next night, I’m sitting in a car hoping this time we’ve picked the next victim correctly. My phone rings. It’s Seth. “What’s up?”

“Get to Brett Carson’s house. He just got a call and headed into his back garden. You can be there faster than I can.”

“On my way.” Carson is a vamp gunrunner who’d as soon shoot humans as drink their blood. He recently made the news for killing a teenage girl who tried to run away after agreeing to be his blood slave. I consider the route to his house and decide to go on foot. I run at vampire speed, houses and trees blurring beside me. I race into the yard and see Carson’s body lying on the ground, blood pooled around it. Watkins and Smith, the officers the lieutenant had watching the house, crouch near him, faces pale.

“The killer was too fucking fast,” Watkins says as I walk up to them.

“Tell me what happened.”

Watkins runs his hand through his hair. Whatever happened has him rattled. “A big man, taller than me with black hair and deeply tanned skin, came out of the woods. Carson greeted him and they started to talk in low voices. We stayed in position, ready to move in if necessary, but it looked like a business deal. Then Carson dropped to the ground, and the man disappeared or he seemed to, but his clothes are still here.” He gestures toward the ground near Carson’s feet. “Lou saw it better.”

I turn toward his partner. “What did you see?”

“I was in the edge of the woods with a sniper rifle, watching through the scope. Right before Carson stiffened, something shot from the other man’s mouth, almost like a dart. After he disappeared, I zeroed in on Carson, and I saw a snake slither away from him. A few seconds later, Carson started bleeding from everywhere.”

“We tried to save him, but there was nothing we could do,” Watkins adds. “He was dead in less than two minutes.”

I try to process all this, not wanting to believe it. “The killer is a snake shifter.”

Watkins exhales a shaky breath. “Looks like it.”

“Did anyone see where the snake went?”

Smith points toward the woods directly behind the house. “He headed that way, but by the time we put together what had happened, none of us could find him.”

Watkins shakes his head. “We really fucked this one up.”

“You did your best. Have you called this in?”

Smith nods. “A backup team and the ME are on the way.”

“Good. You wait for them. I’m going to search the woods and look for any sign of a hideout.”

Watkins frowns. “Considering the vulnerability of vamps, maybe you should sit this search out.”

“We don’t know what effect he has on humans. I’m as safe as any of us.”

Watkins looks like he wants to protest, but he simply says, “Yes, sir.”

“I’m going to follow the trail behind the house that leads to the pond at the back of Pringle Park.”

As I turn to go, Smith lays a hand on my shoulder.

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