Deep Within The Shadows (The Superstition Series Book 1)

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Author: Teresa Reasor
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Urban
was wrong. So wrong I can’t believe we even talked about it. And I can’t believe we thought we could pull it off. We didn’t count on Newton being so good with his fists, or that Templeton bitch being able to light Willy’s clothes on fire.”
    “How the hell did she do that?” Chase hadn’t read anything in the report about that. Had there been evidence of an accelerant at the scene?
    “I don’t know, man. Me and Willy were whaling on Newton, and Willy’s pants caught on fire, and he started rolling around on the ground screaming. Once I got the fire put out, we took off. He had blisters all over his legs.”
    Tears ran down Abbott’s face, and Chase wondered if it was because he’d been caught, or because he was actually experiencing a moment’s remorse.
    “Newton was never supposed to die. The person just wanted Juliet Templeton dead.”
    “Why?”
    “I don’t know, man. They promised me and Willy five thousand dollars. Sent us twenty-five hundred as a deposit, and we was supposed to get the rest after. We spent half of it on cocaine the first two weeks, and then when we realized we was going through the money pretty quick, we decided we’d better kill her fast so we could get the rest. Then we had the bright idea that as long as the girl disappeared, the client wouldn’t care when she died.”
    “Who promised you the money?”
    “I don’t know. Weed Keller brought us the envelope with the instructions.”
    Weed Keller had been shot two weeks ago. The case was still open and unsolved. And now they’d have to look in a different direction, because he might have been killed for an entirely different reason than what they’d first suspected.
    Though Superstition was a middle-sized community, drugs were becoming a more and more common problem. And with drugs came the other issues of overdoses and killings over drug turf and drug deals gone bad. And just the stupidity and mayhem associated with people getting high and losing touch with reality. So far those issues were still relatively small. But they did happen.
    “Weed Keller is dead, Abbott.”
    “Yeah, I heard.” Abbott’s head made a hollow thump as he rested it on the table. “He was the only one who knew who hired us.”
    “Who’s after you?”
    The man turned his bloodshot gaze to Chase’s face. “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
    Chase leaned forward and rested his forearms on the table. “Try me.”
    Abbott’s eyes bounced blindly, jerkily around the room. He bit his lip hard, his yellowed teeth leaving reddened indents in his skin. “It isn’t a person, man. It’s a thing, and there’s more than one of them.”
    What the fuck? Chase studied the man through narrowed eyes. Abbott had just said he was clean. His pupils were normal, his speech wasn’t slurred, and he seemed lucid.
    Was he trying for an insanity defense? Fuck that.
    “I told you you wouldn’t believe me.” His eyes teared up and, unable to raise his hands, bent his head to rub his face against his grungy shirtsleeve. “I ain’t crazy.”
    Chase studied the bloodshot sclera that turned the whites of Abbott’s eyes pink, the dark rings like bruises that encircled them, the trembling exhaustion of his movements. The guy hadn’t been sleeping or eating from the look of him. He’d put up a crazed fight when Chase dragged him from the cheap hotel with Carmichael and Williams’s help. His eyes had darted around the parking lot as though a bogeyman lurked behind every car. The guy was terrified.
    “All right. What is it you’re afraid of?”
    *     *     *
    The gray shadow form boiled up out of the car trunk and snapped at Miranda. Instinct kicked in and Caleb dove in from the side, slamming the trunk lid down in the midst of the oily gray mist. An unearthly scream rent the air. He rolled off the car, landing crouched in front of Miranda, his arms wide, and poised for battle.
    Jerking around, he grasped her arm and dragged her away from the
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