course, that’s not what happened so here we are, eh?” Jacob motioned to their less than ideal surroundings.
“What do you want?” the Slaugh asked.
Jacob released his grip on the man’s shirt. “For starters, I want to know why you’re here. Knowing your kind, I’m guessing you didn’t come alone. You do like traveling in packs, as I recall. How many of you are there and what do you want with Alexandra Holzer?”
“And what if I don’t wish to tell you that, mate?”
“In that case, you and I will have a problem.” Jacob’s smile returned as he added, “––mate.”
He took a step toward the possessed man.
“Do we have a problem?”
Before he could answer, everything went dark. The last thing he saw was Jacob Black’s terrifying smile.
J oshua Demerest was running late.
He had been so busy recently. Between the case he was working and his extracurricular adventures with Alexandra, the past few weeks had been a blur of movement. They had jumped from one adventure to another with barely a moment to catch their breath before leaping headfirst into the next terrifying event.
Ever the skeptic, Joshua had a hard time wrapping his analytical mind around Alexandra’s world, but even he was hard pressed to dispute some of the weird and fantastical things he had seen. Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls had always been things found in books and fairy tales. They were certainly not the sort of things that happened in the real world. There were rules to how the world worked.
Then he met Alexandra Holzer and the rulebook went right out the window.
Alex thrived on the strange the way he lived for facts. As much as she threw herself into keeping the world safe, he did likewise, both at her side and in a court of law. Joshua was a junior attorney with a small, but growing New York law firm. Although he had yet to take the lead on a case all his own, Joshua had sat second chair a few times with the senior partners during trial. He loved the process of a trial, the arguments, and uncovering the facts, but where he truly thrived was in research. Joshua was a master at finding the perfect ruling that could unhinge the opposition’s case.
Being good at his job kept him in the law library most of the day, not to mention the occasional overnight stay. He had logged more cat naps on the frayed leather sofa in the anteroom than he cared to admit, but he knew his hours of hard work would soon pay off when his chance to sit first chair when a case of his own came. According to the senior partners, that day was coming soon.
For Joshua, it couldn’t arrive fast enough.
When he caught a glimpse of the clock on the wall, he let out a curse through clenched teeth. He was running late. Again. He had promised to meet Alex at Samuel’s office to follow up on the containment vessels they had dropped off for him to dispose of safely.Alex was convinced that there was a way for them to replicate the process used to trap the wandering spirit inside a similar vessel to make it safe to travel with one in tow.
Spirits had a habit of being messy, especially when they were unhappy. After the first slimy one all but destroyed his car’s interior, he had found a used van at an affordable rate and with Alex in tow they put down a deposit. The van ran well, but aside from two front seats, the rear was open and empty, which made it easy to hose out after a job if need be.
Gathering up his assorted papers and notepads filled with details on the case to be followed up on after he got back home later that night, Joshua shuffled everything inside his briefcase and with a little extra muscle, managed to get it closed.
“I’m going to need a bigger briefcase if this keeps up,” he groused. This particular case was huge and everyone at the firm had a hand in it, which kept him busy gathering data for whoever shouted the loudest that day.
He looked at the clock again and grimaced. He was late and growing more so by the minute. He was already on
“What do you want?” the Slaugh asked.
Jacob released his grip on the man’s shirt. “For starters, I want to know why you’re here. Knowing your kind, I’m guessing you didn’t come alone. You do like traveling in packs, as I recall. How many of you are there and what do you want with Alexandra Holzer?”
“And what if I don’t wish to tell you that, mate?”
“In that case, you and I will have a problem.” Jacob’s smile returned as he added, “––mate.”
He took a step toward the possessed man.
“Do we have a problem?”
Before he could answer, everything went dark. The last thing he saw was Jacob Black’s terrifying smile.
J oshua Demerest was running late.
He had been so busy recently. Between the case he was working and his extracurricular adventures with Alexandra, the past few weeks had been a blur of movement. They had jumped from one adventure to another with barely a moment to catch their breath before leaping headfirst into the next terrifying event.
Ever the skeptic, Joshua had a hard time wrapping his analytical mind around Alexandra’s world, but even he was hard pressed to dispute some of the weird and fantastical things he had seen. Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls had always been things found in books and fairy tales. They were certainly not the sort of things that happened in the real world. There were rules to how the world worked.
Then he met Alexandra Holzer and the rulebook went right out the window.
Alex thrived on the strange the way he lived for facts. As much as she threw herself into keeping the world safe, he did likewise, both at her side and in a court of law. Joshua was a junior attorney with a small, but growing New York law firm. Although he had yet to take the lead on a case all his own, Joshua had sat second chair a few times with the senior partners during trial. He loved the process of a trial, the arguments, and uncovering the facts, but where he truly thrived was in research. Joshua was a master at finding the perfect ruling that could unhinge the opposition’s case.
Being good at his job kept him in the law library most of the day, not to mention the occasional overnight stay. He had logged more cat naps on the frayed leather sofa in the anteroom than he cared to admit, but he knew his hours of hard work would soon pay off when his chance to sit first chair when a case of his own came. According to the senior partners, that day was coming soon.
For Joshua, it couldn’t arrive fast enough.
When he caught a glimpse of the clock on the wall, he let out a curse through clenched teeth. He was running late. Again. He had promised to meet Alex at Samuel’s office to follow up on the containment vessels they had dropped off for him to dispose of safely.Alex was convinced that there was a way for them to replicate the process used to trap the wandering spirit inside a similar vessel to make it safe to travel with one in tow.
Spirits had a habit of being messy, especially when they were unhappy. After the first slimy one all but destroyed his car’s interior, he had found a used van at an affordable rate and with Alex in tow they put down a deposit. The van ran well, but aside from two front seats, the rear was open and empty, which made it easy to hose out after a job if need be.
Gathering up his assorted papers and notepads filled with details on the case to be followed up on after he got back home later that night, Joshua shuffled everything inside his briefcase and with a little extra muscle, managed to get it closed.
“I’m going to need a bigger briefcase if this keeps up,” he groused. This particular case was huge and everyone at the firm had a hand in it, which kept him busy gathering data for whoever shouted the loudest that day.
He looked at the clock again and grimaced. He was late and growing more so by the minute. He was already on
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