Relic~Hammer by Ben Zackheim

Author:Ben Zackheim [Zackheim, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, supernatural thriller, Arthurian, fantasy action & adventure, Paranormal & Urban
Published: 2018-01-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

“Tabitha was a mob wife,” Fox said as he paced, trying to remember everything he could scrape up from the bottom of his immortal brain. “Or maybe she wasn’t a wife, but a girlfriend. To Joe Kelly.”

“I know that name,” I said. “Manhattan during prohibition.”

“Yeah. But a not-so-known part of life in prohibition is that vampires were hunted hard by the world governments. It was all part of the puritanical wave. A response to the glamour and excess of the roaring 20s. There were about 300 vampires in the city back then. By the time the war came around to distract them from hunting us, there were 21.”

“So she made it through. Any idea how?”

“Yeah, she hooked up with Joe Kelly.”

“He was a mob boss,” I jumped in. “Based downtown on Lafayette or Great Jones, I think. Three Pointers Gang?” Fox nodded his head. “Nasty assholes. They were ahead of the curve on sadistic ways to kill anyone who crossed them.”

“I saw their handiwork up close,” Fox said. “Young man. Maybe eighteen. He shot a little too high too fast and Kelly was threatened. Didn’t take much with him, insecure prick. So he stuck the kid’s head in a bird cage and filled it with hungry rats. Dumped the body on the piers for all of us bums and undead to see.”

“And Tabitha hung out with these people?”

“Yeah. I don’t know how involved she was, but she knew what was going on. I’d call her the opposite of Adelaide.”

“Who’s Adelaide?” Rebel asked, walking into the room.

“An old friend,” he said. He turned to me. “I don’t think your new girlfriend’s name was Tabitha back then, Kane. But if I remember right, she disappeared after the police raided their headquarters and shut the gang down.”

“What’s in the building now?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” he said. I took out my cell phone and started a search.

“Joe Kelly, Three Point Gang, 59 Great Jones Street,” Lucas said. He looked over the thick book in his hands and gave us his best snooty look.

“Thanks Lucas,” I said. He slapped the book shut.

I punched in the address. I wanted to see what had taken the place of the mob HQ.

“What the fuck?” I said, looking at my smart phone.

“What is it?” Rebel asked.

“It’s nothing.” I held up the phone and showed them. The building was abandoned. It was covered in decades of graffiti and lame attempts to cover the graffiti.

“On Great Jones Street? That’s impossible. That’s one of the hottest parts of New York City.”

“There must be something wrong with it if it hasn’t become a lame ass boutique,” I said.

“Being a Vampire lair could be a strike against it,” Fox said.

“Lucas!” I yelled.

“Whaaaat?” he yelled back, annoyed.

“Find out who holds the deed on 59 Great Jones Street in Manhattan.”

“That’s how you ask?”

“Please!”

I heard grumbling from above and then the distinct hum of Pars being opened. Pars was a kind of Facebook for demons. They’d had it for over a thousand years, as Lucas liked to brag.

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