The creature stepped into the light and my breath caught. Blonde hair down past her shoulders. The sort of body that would make a man sit up and beg for a chance to be near her. Pouty lips. Dangerous curves in all the right places.
Also? Not quite human. There was something off about her eyes. There was also a slight glow to her skin. As though the normal light that was hitting everyone else in the room decided to take a pass rather than hitting her and she was giving off a strange glow of her own to make up the difference.
Or maybe it was just that whatever light was hitting her was coming from another dimension.
Either way I knew I had to play it cool. This was my first potential client, after all. My first potentially paying client. Hooks and Anderson had moved to the back of the room and were quietly pulling Zoey down the hall to more empty offices I’d probably never fill, but the place had been a steal so it’s not like the extra space bothered me.
And I was grateful to the government agents for pulling Zoey away. I had no idea if the sight of a little girl sucking the blood out of a mouse would be the sort of thing that bothered this potential client.
“Right. Well I’ll see what I can do,” I said.
“It’s about my husband,” she said.
“Your husband?”
“I think he’s cheating on me,” she said.
I fought the urge to roll my eyes. His first case with a woman who obviously wasn’t quite human and I was supposed to chase down a cheating husband?
“What kind of guy cheats on a girl like you?” I asked, surprised that the words left my mouth even as I said them.
She smiled as though she almost expected something like that though. Maybe guys lost it around her a lot. It made sense. I’d known plenty of guys who got distracted by the sexy, and even though that didn’t normally happen to me this woman had an allure that would make a supermodel seem like a fitful candle flame next to her bright and shining sunlight.
“A powerful man,” she said. “Very powerful.”
This time I did roll my eyes. “Right. So what is he? Mayor? Chief of Police?”
I figured it’d be a good idea to figure out exactly how much trouble I’d be getting into so I could come up with an appropriately outrageous fee.
“He’s a god who runs this local region of your plane of existence,” she said, dropping an atomic bomb as her first salvo in our fee negotiation.
Not that I cared. Vampires were one thing, but a god? Sure it would probably be boring surveillance, but my left hand was clenching and unclenching in a fist like it always did when I was spoiling for a fight.
“Right,” I said. “I can work with that.”
I pulled out a pen and a pad of paper and quietly added several zeroes to the mental bill I was working up as I launched into a series of questions about the world’s most powerful cheating husband.
Punching out vampires was pretty fun, but a god? This was gonna be good.
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