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weren’t so horrible, he decided. Talon had his Liaison. Kenshin could put one check in the good column. In a day of shit, he’d take all the positive stuff he could find.
    “Tell me something good,” he said to the couple. “Anything.”
    The two of them glanced at one another, and Joelle spoke. “I don’t know how good it is, but the woman Charon brought in is like me. She isn’t susceptible to vampire suggestion. On the down side, the thought of vampires totally wigs her out.”
    “I said good, Joelle. Tell me something good.” He wearily rubbed his face. “So, she could be a PIA agent, but since the people she’ll work with scare her, she’s useless. Awesome.”
    “She also might be Charon’s Liaison.” Joelle said it quickly, as if ripping a Band-Aid off.
    It took a moment for the meaning of the words to sink into Kenshin’s mind, then the implications of them. “What the fuck?” He stood up to pace, and he saw Talon move to put his body between Kenshin and the woman. Though having a Liaison had pulled Talon back from the brink of insanity, it also made him incredibly dangerous when it came to the woman.
    “Please tell me why you imagine she’s his Liaison, and then, we’ll all hope you’re wrong.” Kenshin said.
    “He drank from her,” Talon finally spoke. “The vamp tore her wrist up so he had to seal it so she wouldn’t bleed out. When we found the body, Charon had done a number on it.”
    Joelle interrupted him as she stepped out to be seen. “He growls and doesn’t even realize he’s doing it. He looks at her like he wants to lick her up. He challenged Talon or at least he was going to, but I kicked the two of them out.”
    “It might just be that he’s horny, and it’s all about sex. Or he hasn’t fed in a while.” Damn, Kenshin prayed like hell it was either one of those.
    “No, Charon’s got women, and the amount of blood he consumed from the woman means he’s had his fill.”
    Kenshin looked down at the floor for a long moment. If what the two of them said were true, they were going to be in deep shit soon. Or, at least, he thought they were. The whole idea of a true Liaison was something they were just learning about. People had had the title in the past, but until Joelle and Talon there hadn’t been a truly bonded couple. What would this do to Charon? If he and the woman couldn’t eventually build a relationship, and she truly was his Liaison, Charon would have to be put down. They’d have no choice.
    “We need to know more,” Kenshin said. “There had to have been other human and vampire bonds formed.”
    “I can check with Quenton and see what, if anything, he can come up with,” Joelle said. “He found the diary that talked about the whole Liaison thing so there’s bound to be something more.”
    The phone rang, and Kenshin actually had a sinking feeling in his gut. It couldn’t be good. Hell, nothing had gone right, so a phone call in the middle of the night couldn’t be anything but bad news. He picked it up, and it only took a moment to know that things had gotten worse.
    He hung up and turned to Joelle and Talon. “A human was attacked by a vampire in his home. He’s dead, and the human police found the body. Even worse, the man is Patrick James Flaherty. He’s Aislinn’s brother.”
    “I’ll go with you to the scene,” Talon said.
    Kenshin nodded. “Styx is already there. Joelle, I’ll need you to handle the COM.”
    “Will do,” she said as the three of them left the office. “I’ll see if Reaper can hit the library. He’s the one that helped Quenton find the information to begin with so he might have a better idea where to look.”
    * * * *
    Reaper stalked into the library. He’d pulled his blood red hair back to get it out of his face because he’d assumed he’d be out fighting. Instead, he was relegated to the library in an attempt to help Quenton do research. What the fuck did Reaper know about anything? He was a fighter. He’d