Semi-Broken by Isabel Jordan

Author:Isabel Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Isabel Jordan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Harper, Riddick, Mischa, Hunter, Leon, and Benny were all together when Harper called Lucas later that night. It sounded like Haven was there, too, banging on some kind of toy, squealing gleefully every so often. With all the background chatter, it sounded like Harper was standing in the middle of Main Street at noon. During a parade. When the circus was in town.

So, pretty much, it was a normal night at Harper Hall’s house.

“What do you have for me, Harper?” he asked.

“The fighters didn’t see anything, but a few of the witnesses Benny talked to said the shooter was a white male, dark hair, about thirty years old, anywhere from six feet tall to six feet three, and anywhere from 180 to 210 ten pounds.”

Fantastic. That narrowed it down to just about anyone in the world. “Vamp?”

“Human,” she said.

Huh. That was surprising. If that was the case, the shooter probably wasn’t a coven member of someone Seven had taken out when she’d worked for Sentry. So much for his best guess as to motive. “What else?”

“Well, not sure if this is helpful in any way, but one of the witnesses was apparently a gun aficionado and got a good look at the sniper rifle as the shooter was running away. Said it was a Dragunov.”

A Russian weapon, Lucas thought. Semi-automatic, designated marksman rifle. A weapon like that wasn’t just something the shooter had stumbled upon. It wouldn’t have been easy to find, and it wouldn’t have been cheap, which meant the shooter had a sniper rifle of choice that he’d gone to effort and expense to hunt down. He was a pro. And he hadn’t been fucking around. He’d intended to blow her head off.

Jesus.

Lucas heard Harper flipping through the pages of what was probably Benny’s notebook before she said, “And one witness said the guy had a weird tattoo on his forearm. Said it looked like a barcode.”

Well, now that could actually be useful information. Maybe he wouldn’t kill Benny after all.

“Ask him how she is,” Lucas heard Riddick demand in the background.

Harper’s muffled and somewhat annoyed reply: “She’s fine or else he’d be all wolfed out, tearing the city apart instead of calmly talking to me.”

He didn’t hear what Riddick mumbled after that, but he imagined it involved something about dismembering Lucas if anything happened to Seven on his watch again. That seemed to be Riddick’s current MO, at least. Lucas couldn’t really say he blamed him, so he said, “Harper, tell Riddick his sister is fine; she’s just resting. And put Leon on the phone.”

“Well, certainly, but only because you asked so nicely,” she replied tartly.

There was a shuffling noise on the line as Leon took the phone from Harper and said, “Yo, hey, man. How’s it hanging?”

Leon and Benny’s muffled laughter came over the line, letting him know the two of them had discussed Lucas’s Magic Mike moment in the alley with Seven. Awesome.

Suddenly feeling the weight of the day pressing down on him to

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