“Something that never crossed my mind,” Antoine said when Reynaud proposed his theory. “Eliminate my…our secret weapon—” he glanced at Burke, “—and it gives him, whoever he is, a chance to do whatever he’s planning next.”
“Come on,” Burke said. “How can I be a danger to anyone? Sure, I eliminate the ones who want to feed on a human, but they’re mostly badly trained Fledglings or vampires who prefer fresh blood to bagged. I’m no danger to full-out rogues.”
“I disagree,” Reynaud said. “You took out Morra, and you led us to Silvan. While no one but us knows it was you specifically, everyone knows it was The Hunter. Given what you do, you could be a great danger to, as you put it, a full-out rogue with an agenda. So he compels his minions to go after humans, hoping you’ll show up to stop the
