The Vampire's Curse by Mandy Rosko

Author:Mandy Rosko [Rosko, Mandy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Vampires, Paranormal
Amazon: B00CIDBDYO
Goodreads: 18178643
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2013-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Mike stared at the yellow metal box connected to one of the collars found on the ferals. It was safely tucked inside a plastic bag, already dusted for prints—they were Charles Claytons—and any other clues that could be taken from them—there were none—and so he was free to turn it about and look while he mentally searched for all the holes. Any hint that he might have missed.

So far, there was nothing. Not on this collar, nor on any of the others that had been picked up.

He sighed. So much nothing.

"Parts are too common, no way of tracking it. It doesn't tell us anything we don't already know about Dr. Clayton except he's now taking his little obsession with semi-humans a bit too far …" He trailed off and put the bag on his desk that was littered with paperwork, pencils, pens, his phone, organizer, and an array of other things that couldn't help him find out more of what he needed to know.

A knock at his door brought him back to his office, and he looked up as Miller came in. The man’s face was grim.

Mike tensed in his chair. "What is it?"

Miller scratched the back of his shaved head. "We still can't find anything on where Clayton might be, or where he's finding so many feral vamps to put collars on."

"He's not."

Miller blinked. "What?"

Mike brought up the file on his computer that he'd been looking at and turned the monitor around. "Look familiar?"

Miller stepped forward and leaned in to get a good look at the face. Then he read some of the description next to the picture. "Vampires don't normally end up as a missing person’s file," he said.

"No, they're a little too tough ‘round the edges to just grab off the street. You have to be real crafty to be able to trick a vamp into trusting you enough to get close enough to kill ‘em, or kidnap ‘em."

Miller put it together. "This is one of the ferals?"

Mike turned his monitor around. "Dustin Frank, one of our recent deceased from last night's attack on Patty's Potions. You wouldn't be able to tell that now considerin’ his face is charred blacker than coal. And this picture was, as you can see, taken before he turned into a mindless, bloodthirsty animal."

Mike clacked on his keyboard and clicked his mouse a few times and brought up more files. Miller walked around his desk to look so he didn't have to spin the monitor again. "Anna Delores, recently reported missing and recently found dead, Jason Briggs, Mark Dalton, all were vampires who had the money and capabilities to buy their own blood, and were certainly healthy enough to go hunting for it themselves if they ran into a little financial trouble. All lived either in the city or around it. Their records range from squeaky clean to unpaid parking tickets. And now we find them crazed and dead."

Miller had one arm folded and held the other up to scratch his chin. "You're saying Clayton is kidnapping vampires and starving them until they're feral?"

"Bingo.

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