Benjamin Franklin once said that those who give up their freedom for safety deserve neither." I'd have recognized it as Adam's room, even if it hadn't smelled of him. I took a deep shuddering breath. Along the inside wall there was a folding half-door covering the top of the counter. If I'd been expecting applause, I'd have been disappointed. As if he'd never doubted I'd do as he told me. Not being able to smell much around that unpleasant, pervasive bitterness was bothering me more than the vampire who didn't look like much of an opponent at all. The whole time I had been here I could feel the weight of the dead teasing the outer edges of my senses. I'd just learned that little tidbit about being resistant to vampiric magic. "Demons serve only one master well, and those who forget it tend to become enslaved rather quickly. I think it surprised Darryl, who wasn't accustomed to being surprised. At least I was assuming it would be tonight. "Irks me when they do it to me, too." "Fine." Can you handle it from here?" He turned his face into the light that illuminated the driveway. whispered Honey. Ben was curled up as far from the doorway as he could get with his back to us. "Stefan revoked Andre's entry into the house, but I wasn't certain that it still worked with Stefan… missing." The werewolf started to his feet, but stopped halfway up when I whimpered at his sudden movement. This is someplace he would stay." "I smell a human in a fae tavern." The basement was darker than upstairs, and someone without preternatural sight might have had trouble seeing at all. "No. Like Marsilia he wore white. asked Stefan. Complaining about Honey wasn't going to get me a different guard—there wasn't anyone else Adam could send. Stefan took us all the way to the far side of the room, near the sliding glass doors that were all but hidden by heavy, floor-toceiling, curtains. "Samuel?" A similar situation occurs in book 2, only this time with Jameson. "He wasn't following Andre's orders that night in the church." Samuel was making himself scarce, but he'd started leaving meals in the fridge for me. The rest of us mimicked his quiet stillness as Warren drifted to sleep—except for Kyle, who had dropped back into his trials as a ten-year-old third baseman. He must have seen that on my face, because he continued, "He needs to be stopped, Mercy." I couldn't make myself pull hard enough to get free. "Sure thing.I was in the middle of a show anyway." I pulled out my cell phone and called Gabriel's phone number. "Which wasn't exactly true. "Estelle, go with him. All of them kept me from seeing the doorway, but I could smell them. Some of them came out one night and spray painted fairyland in angry red letters across my garage doors. She stared at us—no, at the werewolves, with an avid, almost hungry gaze. "There are beings of power here," he said. I told him. I'd never had to cut up the carcass myself. My neck and cheek were wet with it. Medea wandered out from wherever she'd been sleeping. As soon as they saw him, their footfalls quieted further. "That doesn't mean that I didn't kill those people. "Just a scratch." I didn't remember any of the rest of Adam's pack acting submissive to me, though. "I would have anyway. Naomi turned to the girl, "Rachel—" "I saw him, too," she said hollowly. He'd known that everyone in the hotel was dead when we entered the building. I knew where it was. "Mr. Black was just leaving." The bodies probably belonged to vagrants who had discovered the house was empty. No matter what Samuel threatened, his father, theMarrok , would never agree to expose the vampires. "I trust your judgment , Mercy—and I've raised a few strays before." You're reading Chi No Wadachi . "This is Mercy," I told it after it beeped at me. They wouldn't care about Samuel and Adam. Bran did his best to protect that illusion, presenting his public wolves as victims who took their affliction and bravely used it to protect others. I could smell his anxiety winning over anger. "You can sort it out with Adam when he gets back," I said. "He did it fine. Or maybe it was just from his time in the army, which, according to his stories, wasn't that different, politically speaking, from the pack. Quickly I set the stake again and this time I hit the end squarely with the mallet. It wasn't until we were under the intense lights of the hospital that I realized just how bad we looked. It meant that Darryl tended to be nastily autocratic when Warren was around. I asked. Asmodeus was destroyed centuries ago." "Not any kind of prey for a coyote. My nice neighbors wouldn't stand a chance against a vampire, especially not this vampire. I hoped it was just something to do with how he'd called me. Adam can help with that." The teenager next to Marsilia, who'd been cleaning something out from under his nail with his teeth, nodded his head. When I was almost close enough to touch the chair, I realized that I'd been sensing the presence of its magic even from the hallway—I just hadn't known what it was. She glanced at me from under her lashes to see how I took her revelation. "Sure." "Your aspirations to the contrary, I still rule here, Bernard. Or maybe I just forgot. I turned toward Zee. Behind me, I saw flashing lights as the police car that usually hid just past the railroad overpass pulled over the Taurus. I had to cover my eyes because dirt and plant matter filled the air. "Mercedes Thompson, I need you to help me find Stefan and kill this sorcerer," said Marsilia . Your memories of the woman's death are very different from mine." If Littleton was here, he had some place to stay. "Let go," I said, almost not recognizing the hoarse croak as my own voice. "But once she is a member of the pack, she'll fall out of your control and into the Alpha's. I was sure of that much, I'd heard the anger in Andre's voice, the hunger for vengeance. "So the only wolf you've seen is your daughter, chained and out of control in her cage— and the only wolf she's ever seen is the one who attacked her?" Much of that was due to the handsome man leaning on the fender ofWarren 's battered truck wearing, of all things, a lavender cowboy outfit complete with purple hat. I had to put a linen jacket on over my T-shirt so I could wear the SIG in its shoulder harness. "No," I agreed. Damn it. *** When I got home from work the next day, I grimly put on mygi and called him again. He knew it too, because he turned abruptly and strode over to the big picture window that looked out over the Columbia . Christ was a willing sacrifice, a lamb, not a cross for us to hang ourselves on; or at least that's my interpretation. I picked up the receiver and hit talk. Most of us have no more resistance to vampiric powers than any human—nor are there many souls pure enough to resist the demon. For a moment, a pale reflection of the ruby glow I'd seen in the hotel room gleamed in his irises. Fear. I didn't tell him that I was worried about a wolf who couldn't control herself after three years, but he must have heard it in my voice because he interrupted me. I wished I knew more of how justice worked in the seethe. "Yes." I got out ofWarren 's bed as carefully as I could. As second, he'd have had plenty of experience in real fights, not just training. If Adam—or Samuel—had not been there, it would have been dangerous for Warren . Pretended for whose benefit? Warren patted me on the top of my head and said, "It's all right, Mercy. Cold sweat dampened my back. He's a good father. "Zee," I asked as he raised a Passat in the air to take a look at the exhaust. The woman's body convulsed and her eyes met mine, just for a moment, before they glazed over in death. And I hadn't been able to stop him. This part I'm not certain of." My cell phone rang before he could say what he thought about that. His fingertips brushed a sore spot on the side that had just blended in with my other aches and pains. —«»—«»—«»—. This time the smell of magic was as strong as ammonia, clearing my sinuses. "Bitch,"Littleton hissed. Darryl laughed. "But not Stefan." Littleton didn't finish him off because he wanted us to know he didn't consider Warren a threat. "Tommy," said Rachel in a small voice. "This was done by the thing that Stefan went hunting." His breath was shallow and unsteady. "Should I?" "Warren had kept me more or less updated on the hunt for the vampire-sorcerer, such as it was. Marsilia told me how to kill vampires." "I want to know what you think about him personally. I don't know what effect changing had on his prognosis. I was really tired of being unable to do anything while people were dying. You aren't up to a fight with this one. "I'm calling on official business. I shifted my gaze back to Warren . I opened my eyes and met her gaze. I shot twice more in rapid succession. A sorcerer, someone who controls the demon by means of a bargain, is far more deadly. "So Stefan was trying to create a politically correct vampire?" When she knew, she would have me killed. I scrambled forward, finding the pack with my nose and fingers. The combination was enough to keep him alive but not always comfortable in the pack. "Uncle Mike is looking into it, but he has to be careful. Three times. I walked back out to the living room and heard another crash from the dining room. "Perhaps Adam Hauptman or one of his wolves. You weren't old enough to defend yourself from me." I opened my mouth to say so, and then stopped. If she is unhappy in Adam's pack, there are other options, especially once she has control of herself." "That phone call last night?" The greater servants are bound away from our world, but can be invited in—just as vampires cannot enter a home without an invitation." Tony was an undercover cop with a talent for changing his appearance. "And that's saying something. "You were right. "Did you hear what the caller said?" I am losing control of my wolf, I'm a danger to you. I snorted. So many to die? "But not bad." He'll grow up strong and healthy." And that meant more than his being able to become a vampire when he died, I saw. Stefan says they burn pretty well once they get started." "And the cold. I got out of the car, slowly. Werewolves, outside of a well-run pack, will kill the wounded or weak. As he apparently tried to tell you." I suppose she could have cloaked herself in shadows as some of thefae can, but I couldn't smell her, couldn't sense her anywhere. I learned early how to imitate the wolves. "All right." "All right. Her face went a little blank. My daughter took her out to her boyfriend's house and forgot to keep watch." She was a 1968KarmannGhia in almost pristine condition. I spun around to see what had happened, but they were both all right. He suggested that there is some trouble in the Tri-Cities." Instead, they possess their victims and feed upon them until there is nothing left.Kurfel wouldn't be this one's name, any more thanAsmodeus was: knowing a demon's name gave you power over them. With the ties that already bind us, and her blood fresh within me, I can call upon her gifts and her power at my need. "Run." She gave me an ironic look. "Stupid werewolf games." He nodded his head slowly. Littleton was not from the Tri-Cities. I was already beginning to have doubts about the wisdom of my plans by the time I reached the front porch. I was so certain of it, that I thought he had some plan in mind when he walked around Stefan's cage. There were two incidents that might fit, but only one of the lone wolves would take it upon himself to help a girl. He'd been warning me about "pushing buttons" for as long as I could remember. If it became known that I was consulting with the police, I could find myself in big trouble. I could see why someone would send a reporter out sniffing around him, though. But he'd saved my life with his vampire kit, I owed him enough. Adam was the Alpha, and responsible for the welfare of all the werewolves in the area. "Rough morning." I walked in, but Andre came to an abrupt halt just outside the threshold. I'd probably have a scar. he asked sounding calm, though I could hear his mate's bitter voice in the background. I couldn't let him think that. "I came to find the house on fire," he said, "and two humans, Andre's current menagerie, outside of his house. "Come on in, Sergeant," he said. He was a wiry, homely, quiet man who did more work in an hour than most people did in their entire lives. He told me she was getting stronger, that I had to find a pack for her. Blood, I thought, but the Pine-Sol was still crippling my nose. Yep. "Werewolf politics," I told him. How would she feel if she hurts you or her mother?" If Wulfe was awake, he'd be confined to the dark room where he was safe. There was no width in his shoulders, no substance to his muscles. Her chest was heaving with the effort of her screaming, but even without the bathroom door between us she wasn't making much noise, more of a series of grunts. He grew up at a time when women married much younger than sixteen. I stopped speaking and let her think about that a minute. When Daniel tried to stand up, his legs wouldn't hold him. I don't think he could affect Mercy's, even being a sorcerer. It made sense that demon-caused problems might centeraround the demon. I could smell again, and almost wished I couldn't. "I won't lie to you about how I feel. "Mercy," Adam said after watching me a while. he asked, nodding toward Honey. Warren wouldn't make sexual overtures toward me because he wasn't interested—and Adam knew how much I disliked Ben. He'd been traveling though when he ran into Daniel. His moustache was striped like his waistcoat, though in brown and silver. "Tell me that you're not a danger to your patients." Lying was worse than pointless. Presumably it wouldn't have done anything except scare the begeebers out of whoever found it—since the body was gone—but I was just as glad to have that last bit taken care of as well. I asked following her into the kitchen, the source of the sobs. "Yes." It was difficult to judge the age at which he'd died accurately, but he couldn't have been older than twenty. Samuel and Adam are missing." Then I crawled onto it between the wall andWarren . "Samuel got a call last night.Warren doesn't know where they went, though." I asked hopefully. Rachel said, ignoring Naomi. Except that I hadn't screamed again. "But you don't have to worry about that. The exhaust pipe began glowing a bright cherry red under Zee's hand. "Not Mike. We don't have any werewolves either"—they did, at least the Richland PD did, but if they didn't know that, I wasn't going to tell him—"and it would be good not to be wandering around totally in the dark for a change." "Not tonight, sweetheart. I'll have to call him and tell him it's not advisable. Someone had thrown a blanket over him. I wonder how much siding costs. I patted the sleek fender and grinned at him. I had to use the tone of my voice to convey just how worried Black was. He leaned over and kissed me full on the mouth, a quick gentle kiss that told me I hadn't imagined the passionate words he'd murmured as I'd drunk his blood the night I'd killedLittleton . His body language skills weren't even as good as mine because he'd spent so little time with a pack when he was firstChanged. There was tension in his wide shoulders, and now that I was fully awake, I could smell the aggression that had been building in the room. "No. I saw your trailer." "Who commands death?" "I think that you'll find the nightlife will calm down a little from here on out." "You look worse than the accident victim I had die on the table last week." ‘See,' Littleton is telling us, ‘send your best against me and see what I return to you.' "Is he a werewolf?" If he'd done this to me on purpose, he wasn't concerned about it. I snatched my coveralls off their hook, and stalked into the bathroom. "He took pictures." They hadn't told the human population everything, and only those werewolves who chose to do so came out in the open—most of those were in the military, people already separated from the general population. He didn't kiss me, but he gave me a look that was almost as good. I'm at work until? I thought I might love Adam. "Goodbye, Mrs. Hanna," I said. After last winter, she began noticing more. Though he spoke to Samuel, he'd never looked away from me. "Mercy?" Is that how you always know me?" "I know," Adam gave a rueful laugh. "I have not seen one since we came to this desert. The teenager stirred. "You're late, Bran." Dark purple marks traced the path the harness had run around my chest and ribs. "Well," I said, not sure if what I had to tell him would help or hurt, "you weren't pretty. I didn't want to have sympathy for Honey—it was so much easier to dislike her. I looked at the car parked in the driveway. Either Adam had called Bran yesterday, or Darryl had remembered the Blacks/Beckworths and talked to him this morning. I touched the sheep on the necklace I'd bought to replace the one Littleton had broken. "When she breaks my heart? Uncle Mike pushed forward, through the crowd until he stood in front of me, his face thoughtful. Littletontook a very long time to kill her: she quit struggling before I did. "It was bad. But I have no need to yield, if you are not assaulting me." Thompson?" "Am I going to howl at the moon, too?" As soon as I was in the house I could hear someone crying: a man. The motion attracted Andre's attention and he sat up, "What? He bent down and scooped her up. Would you shelter me?" You understand that generalities do not account for variations—just because most vampires follow this pattern, doesn't mean that they all do." He crouched on his heels and rubbed my ears again. Granted his paperwork nightmare had taken a long time to settle. But yes, I believed that he had killed before and made my friend think he had done it." "Do you know where they went?" He nodded his head—it was the first reaction he'd given to any of the visitors. He snorted. The curtain in the window next to the door moved a little. And even if there were ghosts, there was no guarantee I'd see them—or figure out they were ghosts if I did. I stayed silent a while, contemplatingMarsilia . It doesn't happen to all of us—but Daniel was still too new for the changeover to be certain. My cell phone rang, and I inhaled, pulling a peppercorn into my windpipe. save. "I asked. Nineteen Alphas out of maybe a hundred and fifty that Bran thought could be trusted to help a child without abusing her. I hadn't recognized his scent then, but the dead don't always appear to all my senses. No dead people there." "I don't know how it is done. I would have quit school to take care of the child. "You need to stay away from the vampires, Mercedes Athena Thompson." Stupid because only a very unwise person jumps up and down shouting on top of a beehive. Gabriel, would you call Charlie about his Opel , and tell him the price we got on that used Mazda RX7 engine? I tossed it into the safe, grabbed Zee's vampire-slaying backpack and went out to meet my fate. One of the guitarists grinned, hopped off the stage and motioned to the others to do likewise. I shrugged and exaggerated just a little bit. I opened the Rabbit's door and the sudden smell of blood made me step abruptly back. My nose is very good, especially when I'm a coyote, but like anyone else, I don't always notice whatI'm smelling .Most of the time it's like trying to listen to all of the conversations in a crowded restaurant. Of course, I suppose he ought to be. "It was the Teacher. "I'll get what I can. It was an appropriate assignment for a new vampire. I caught it and unzipped the bag. He's a friend of Stefan's." Death is an enemy, right? There were any number of vampires who might have made the sorcerer to cause trouble for Marsilia . "She's human, though, right? I didn't know him well enough to know if he was friend or foe. Andre, I thought, would have killed Stefan. I couldn't believe it. "I need to talk to Rosalinda about some local ghost stories." Samuel's mouth tightened. "Would you come before my mistress and tell her what you have told me about the happenings of this night? I turned off the alarm and pushed a protesting Medea off my lap and threw on clothes so I could take a look at the damage Littleton had done to my trailer in the morning light. His grip reminded me I had an injured shoulder in the worst way. Andre, bring Daniel as well." On impulse, since Elizaveta wouldn't tell me anything, I Googled for demons and sorcerers and I found myself buried under a morass of contradictory garbage. He strolled into my curtained cubicle and looked around. "Hell," I said in disgust. It doesn't matter. Don't let them." I tried to think back, but all I remembered was worrying about getting so involved with another werewolf. It was obvious, even to me, that this vampire had grown up in a time and place where bowing was something done in Kung Fu Theater movies rather than in everyday life. "I'm Mercedes Thompson," I said, turning on the stool so I could put my elbows on the butcher-block table and lean back in a nonthreatening manner. Warren's voice this time. By the time I heard movement in the hall behind us, he was swaying pretty quickly. Stefan tapped his knee, impatient with that judgement . "He's not out vacationing. My friend told me that if I knew where this guy was, he'd appreciate hearing about it—and the FBIare looking for him as well. "Truth," saidWulfe . I'd know if he were dead." Both werewolves were snarling almost soundlessly and I knew, almost without looking at them that the human parts of them were gone, leaving only the predator behind. He'd wanted to eat me. Werewolves can be… volatile. He turned his head to follow his hands as they played delicately over my hind legs and I caught sight of his eyes. He didn't react at all. The curse of a long life is that everyone around you dies. Suddenly the floor underneath the carpet bent upwards with a tremendous noise. It has to be a real challenge, in front of witnesses." I was still smiling when I walked into the office. "At three in the morning you need a mechanic?" After a moment's thought I prayed for Adam, too. "Mmm," I said. "About three, three and a half miles.Some of the incidents are across the river inPaseo . "Demons aren't good for a werewolf's control." "Yes. Kyle and I followed, and I explained what we were doing as quickly as I could. The online story had even fewer details than the morning news. After Texas . She turned her attention back to me. "She says those doctors are miserable to work with." My heart was beating like a drum in my ears—stupid mouse. Joe told me the way I usually walk wasn't safe. I know all of his plans." The skies were dark, boiling with energy, and as I stumbled out of the broken patio door, the wind pulled a tree limb off a nearby tree. Would you trust her to Hauptman?" The Tri-Cities is not the deserted wasteland it was two hundred years ago when she was sent here for trespasses against the Old One who rules in Italy, but neither is it Milan. The third was that he didn't consider humans to be effluvia at all. "All right. I was still shaking as I gingerly climbed over the barbed wire fence between Adam's land and mine. "What do you need?" It was the first thing I'd ever learned about vampires. If one of them is breaking the law, he will be taken care of. He faded after a moment more, and even after I couldn't see him anymore his voice lingered. I didn't have any idea about how she'd changed it, so I had to look everywhere. The thorns were longer and sharper than they'd looked when I wasn't about to push them into my flesh. Mrs. Hanna's route didn't take her across the river. The .44 would have to ride in the backpack with the rest of the vampire-hunting treasures. When I walked up to the table, I smiled at them, showing my teeth. 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