Moon Child (Vampire for Hire #4)
“The car was immaculate, as I suspected it would be. Not even a wadded-up bag of donuts, which I half expected to find.
As he slid in, he clicked the doors locked.
“It’s just me and you, kiddo,” he said. “Now talk.”
“I have an artifact,” I started. “A very valuable artifact for some people. I suspect that whoever took the boy wants this artifact. No doubt he thought he was taking my son.”
“Ransom,” said Sherbet. He hadn’t taken his eyes off me.
“That’s what I’m thinking.”
“And the man in the bow... tie?”
“I have no idea who he is.”
“But he was following you?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I think so.”
Sherbet absorbed these strange details silently, his fine investigative mind sorting them out mentally, labeling them and filing them in his mental file folders. “What’s the artifact, Samantha?”
Sherbet was staring at me. I could hear his heart beating steadily, strongly. Sherbet smelled of aftershave and potatoes.
I took a deep breath, held it, and looked my friend in the eye.MoreLess
As he slid in, he clicked the doors locked.
“It’s just me and you, kiddo,” he said. “Now talk.”
“I have an artifact,” I started. “A very valuable artifact for some people. I suspect that whoever took the boy wants this artifact. No doubt he thought he was taking my son.”
“Ransom,” said Sherbet. He hadn’t taken his eyes off me.
“That’s what I’m thinking.”
“And the man in the bow... tie?”
“I have no idea who he is.”
“But he was following you?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I think so.”
Sherbet absorbed these strange details silently, his fine investigative mind sorting them out mentally, labeling them and filing them in his mental file folders. “What’s the artifact, Samantha?”
Sherbet was staring at me. I could hear his heart beating steadily, strongly. Sherbet smelled of aftershave and potatoes.
I took a deep breath, held it, and looked my friend in the eye.MoreLess
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