15Screaming InkConn made several calls from his room out back. As well as Patrick, he also contacted other colleagues in his network. It was a standard process for newcomers to the bar.
As Tazia promised, Patrick gave him the most information. He sent Conn the classified report he’d collated for himself way back when he’d first come across her twenty years ago. The organization he’d worked for had wanted a contract met on a retired prison officer now living an expat idyll in Tuscany. They’d wanted an unexplainable disappearance and no chance of failure, ideally wanted him torn limb from limb. They wanted a demon.
Patrick engaged a vampire based in Italy who offered the use of his daughter.
At first, he'd thought her too hot-headed to be an effective assassin, but her competency and accu
