Vampire Detective Midnight: A Vampire, Fated Mates, Science Fiction Detective Novel by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Truce

Nick blinked, fighting to adjust to the difference in his vision while wearing the brown-tinted contact lenses.

Wearing the damned things always put him in a foul mood.

Moreover, he found it ironic humans always wanted him to wear them when they needed him to assess possible suspects and unreliable witnesses⏤basically, when he most needed the pinpoint precision of his unobstructed vampire senses, including his sight.

Blinking again, he fought to adjust, putting one foot in front of the other, being careful to walk slowly, pacing Jordan who walked beside him as they made their way down the covered walkway on the way to the school’s main building, where the principal was supposedly waiting for them.

Nick and Jordan had already broken out their respective roles.

They decided they’d conduct the interviews together, requesting a conference room in the main building.

Nick would take a back seat, let Jordan do the talking.

If he needed a redirect and couldn’t convey it to Jordan, he’d jump in, but otherwise, he’d focus more on the truthfulness of the answers they got to Jordan’s questions. Nick would look for other red flags too, anything that might hint the interviewee could be hiding something, and, of course, any tell-tales the subject’s race might not be one hundred percent human.

It wasn’t a perfect system, and they’d alter it if they had to, but for now, Nick was just glad they had some kind of plan⏤and that Jordan was the planning type.

He was also glad Jordan seemed pretty cognizant of Nick’s limitations and strengths.

Most humans tended to forget inconvenient things about Nick’s make-up… like sunlight, and the fact that he wasn’t too fond of fire.

Of course, Nick had personal reasons for not being crazy about fire, even beyond the normal vampire reasons.

Fire was pretty much how he ended up a vampire in the first place.

Reaching the end of the covered walkway, Nick followed Jordan into the main building, walking in behind him and nodding a thanks when Jordan held open the door.

Their steps in the regulation anti-grav footwear echoed strangely in the stone corridor of the ground floor. The campuses’ main building was a castle-like structure that was closer to how Nick pictured private colleges in Scotland or England than even a highbrow school in this part of the United States.

The building smelled damp⏤and old.

Stained-glass windows lived under stone arches on the high part of the eastern corridor. Polished, dark grey, spotlessly-clean flagstones made up the floor.

On their right, the lower walls were interrupted by tall, narrow windows with thick panes of clear glass; on the left, a series of doors presumably leading to classrooms broke up the rough-hewn wall.

Nick began scouting the interior of the school as soon as they passed through the metal outer door, in habit as much as anything. He focused his vampire senses first on the muffled sounds coming from behind the closed doors of the classrooms they passed, then on the smells that wafted through the hall.

It certainly didn’t smell like his public high school in Hunter’s Point, San Francisco.

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