Twice Bitten by Rayna Vause

Author:Rayna Vause [Vause, Rayna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-746-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

MELISSA WOULD be pissed, but over the past few days, hell, the past few weeks, everything annoyed her. The fact that they hadn’t found any trace of Danny Reynolds in twenty-four hours would just turn up the heat on her anger. Reynolds hadn’t shown at his job; he hadn’t gone back to his apartment. He’d dropped off the grid for the moment. What did she want Rogan to do? He couldn’t work magic and conjure him up for her. Yes, he had a first name and a photo, but Rogan couldn’t bring himself to turn those items over to her, or Lydecker for that matter.

While making Melissa wait for something she wanted made his life easier and more difficult, the status quo worked for him right now. Besides, figuring out how to get into Melissa’s basement hideaway had moved above Danny Reynolds on Rogan’s priority list. That’s why he’d holed up in his office poring over copies of the Purity building blueprints. There had to be another way in, perhaps a fire corridor.

“Or there could be no way in at all because the damn room doesn’t even exit.” Rogan slapped his hands on his desk and blew out a hard breath. Either he’d found old building plans that predated the construction of that room, or the bitch had paid someone to alter the plans for her. He put his money on door number two. He wadded the paper and flung it across the room. It hit the wall with a soft, unsatisfying thump just as his phone began to vibrate on his desk. He glanced down at the screen and smiled for the first time all afternoon. Brian.

“Hey, Bri. What’s up?” He leaned back in his chair and propped his feet on his desk.

“Are you coming home anytime soon?”

“I know I’ve been putting in some late nights, but I’m hoping to get out of here shortly. No promises, though.”

A disbelieving grunt sounded over the phone. “Dude, you need to take a vacation. You’re spending way too much time at that place.”

“Well, if I didn’t have to take care of my irritating little brother who insists on an education and eats like a starving wolverine, I might be able to take a few mental health days.”

“Hey, I’m a growing boy.”

“My ass. More like you have a tapeworm. Anyway, did you need something?”

“I just wanted to let you know I’m going to a party tonight with some friends.”

“Where, when, and with who?” With Brian being nineteen and a sophomore in college, Rogan didn’t expect that Brian would keep him up to date on his whereabouts at all times. Still, he appreciated when he did.

Brian huffed out a put-upon sigh. “I’ll text you the deets so you don’t have to freak out. But that’s not why I called you.”

“Cell phone stays on you at all times. Got it?”

“Yeah, yeah. You’re such a mom sometimes.” He’d gotten pretty good at filling the role ever since his and Brian’s parents had been killed three years ago.

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