Reclusive Mage by InadvisablyCompelled

Author:InadvisablyCompelled
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2023-02-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12 – Follow-through

“We’re about finished with the cleanup, Alpha.”

Chester muttered an acknowledgement over the radio. Normally he only worked with his pack and could send messages through the bonds, but now that he had the Alliance he was bringing in the occasional fae to help. When it came to eliminating messes, fae definitely made the process easier. Which didn’t make him any happier about moving on the building across the street.

It wasn’t so much that he disliked cleaning after trespassers that were treading on his territory, but that there were so many of them. It was mostly vampires trying to muscle in, apparently completely unworried about the consequences of infringing on the American Alliance. Something that he had objected to with great emphasis.

His ears flicked as he caught another sound from the vampire stalking him. Chester was fairly certain it was the master of this little nest, and it thought it was being sneaky. Either it didn’t know who Chester was or it didn’t have good intelligence on exactly how good Alpha shifter senses could be. Especially under the circumstances, where he was fully open to his pack magic since he knew there was a vampire after him.

It was amazing how often a vampire master would go for the person in charge, presuming that would be enough to rout everyone else. Though that seemed to be true enough for vampires, due to whatever remained of their original instincts and society. They grouped up in an almost slavish fashion. The fanatical loyalty of thralls was an echo of that same attitude, proof of how they’d been twisted from human. It made them both extremely dangerous and extremely predictable, as a master’s subordinates obeyed orders immediately but also nearly always defaulted to swarming the most powerful-seeming person.

This particular master was somewhat sneakier than normal, since it seemed to have left its subordinates to distract Chester’s people in order to go for Chester himself. Something that hadn’t gone well for the lesser vampires. He turned slightly and unlimbered a pistol with mordite bullets from the holster on his armor, the bane metal a gift from the redoubtable Mister Wells. A glimpse of another perspective came from another of his wolfpack as they managed to lay eyes on it, of the vampire aiming a gun, and he launched himself sideways.

The sudden reports of gunfire from three different sources sounded at once, and a moment later the vampire was dead. Chester hadn’t been hit, but he had to assume that the vampires were using silverite just as he was using mordite. The body armor was extra insurance against it, but it was better not to tempt fate at all.

He sent a wordless question out through the pack bonds and got confirmation back that there were no other vampires out and about. The only way they’d be able to slip past his people was if they had fae help to mask things in ways he couldn’t detect, and he had his own fae for that.

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