Born to Love (The Vampire Reborn Series) (Entangled Ignite) by Caridad Pineiro Read Free Book Online Page A

changed the best parts of him. Parts that both of them had counted on over the years in a multitude of ways.
    “Let’s go, Harris. Mags, I expect you’re going to go do whatever magic you do in the lab with the first victim’s samples.”
    “I’m at your command, Di,” Maggie said, barely containing the hint of amusement in her voice.
    “I’ll drive, Reyes. You always were a sucky driver,” David said, and rolled out of the room ahead of her, his displeasure still evident.
    Pleased by what she had managed to accomplish, she shook her head and smiled.
    Things might be different, but no one said they had to be worse.
    …
    Of course, different didn’t mean all was well, or on the way to being better, either.
    Total silence reigned for the drive from Federal Plaza to a spot on Central Park West not far from where the victim’s body had been found.
    Quiet chased them from David’s van down the paths that led the trio deeper into the park.
    Diana suppressed a shiver as she recalled the last time she came this way, nearly two months earlier, pursuing a rogue vampire slayer. That off-duty assignment had almost ended in disaster, and even now she wondered what repercussions might arise between the Slayer and Vampire councils over the events of that night.
    She was so lost in thought, she almost fell over David when he stopped and turned his wheelchair to face the long incline leading to the grass and rock-strewn incline where they had found the dead jogger.
    David pointed uptown along the trail. “She lived on what they’re calling Central Park North.”
    “Otherwise known as Lower Harlem,” she said with a hint of sarcasm, glancing in that direction.
    David shot her a half-grin, then returned to his inspection of the scene. He peered at the incline, his blue-eyed gaze intense. He shook his head skeptically. “It was not logical for her to run up that hill. There were scrape marks and bruises on her knees, as if she stumbled and scrambled as she ran. Why do that? The path we’re on now would have led her to the street in just a quarter mile or so,” he said, looking back along the trail they had just traveled.
    Diana glanced up the path, then back to the incline, pondering his observation. She tracked her gaze along the woods bordering the trail and back to where they’d just come from.
    As she did, a memory from last night roared back into her consciousness.
    “When we were walking along the incline, the CSU tech thought he heard something. There,” she said, pointing to the low underbrush and saplings closest to the trail where they stood. Mentally, she retraced the steps she and Maggie had taken last night.
    It finally hit her.
    “The animal that attacked Maggie came at us from the southeastern edge of the path.” She jabbed a finger in that direction.
    David rolled to the base of the ridge. “So maybe the jogger saw something behind her and started to run, but her path was blocked by something else,” he said.
    “Like maybe the second unsub.”
    “Which would mean she only had a couple avenues of escape. Including up the hill, to try and reach the trail or the street. Those scrapes and bruises on her knees are from falling as she tried to outrun them on the incline.”
    Them.
    “So we’re looking at two large animals hunting as a pack. As scary as that is, it’s the only thing that makes sense, David. Thank you.”
    He did a little wheelie with his chair, whirled it around and brought it down soundly on her toe, ignoring her yelp as he said, “I guess I’m still good for something, Reyes.”
    Diana remained silent, but smiled through the pain. Check off step 1 on her plan to make her old partner realize that he was still needed.

Chapter Seven
    Maggie had texted Diana to meet her in her lab to discuss her analysis of the first victim’s samples. But on the way, Diana received a call from a security guard in the FBI building’s lobby.
    “Special Agent Reyes, we’ve got a situation here,” said