Shifty Magic
“Even with the longer days of summer, the night was well underway and inky black shadows stretched under the trees and shrubs that choked the edges of Morrocroft Farms Lane. It never took nature long to reclaim her territory once humans abandoned an area. The sidewalks on either side were not much more than broken chunks with grass and weeds shooting up out of them. The surface of the street under my boots was nothing but a cracked, pitted path of old asphalt.
Cooper was nowhere in sight, and I ...told myself that I was glad he'd finally taken the hint and found something else to do. I wondered if the vampire murders Laiyla had mentioned were connected with the venom trafficking case I suspected he was working on—that is, if her convoluted story hadn't been a complete fabrication. Next time I saw him, I'd have to pry information out of him to verify.
I caught a whisper of sound behind me and a tingle ran down my spine. I stopped, the muscles along my back tensing. "Cooper, you moron. If you're trying to sneak up on me, I'm going to shoot you." To prove my point, I reached down and flipped the strap off my gun with my thumb.MoreLess
Cooper was nowhere in sight, and I ...told myself that I was glad he'd finally taken the hint and found something else to do. I wondered if the vampire murders Laiyla had mentioned were connected with the venom trafficking case I suspected he was working on—that is, if her convoluted story hadn't been a complete fabrication. Next time I saw him, I'd have to pry information out of him to verify.
I caught a whisper of sound behind me and a tingle ran down my spine. I stopped, the muscles along my back tensing. "Cooper, you moron. If you're trying to sneak up on me, I'm going to shoot you." To prove my point, I reached down and flipped the strap off my gun with my thumb.MoreLess
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