“Do you know anything about where Alonzo is?”
Cory shrugged, and then looked at Garner as if he were debating something. Finally, he said, “There’s one possibility. He might have been captured by another hunter group. There are several in the city.”
“Really!” Garner said as a deliberate prevarication. His memory of the takedown he and Alonzo had endured on the street by that group of hunters included the fact that they, apparently, had never heard of Cory and his coven.
Cory smirked. “Is that really surprising? Think of how widespread drug traffickers are, and then compare the feeling of experiencing a Vee high with that of mere drugs.”
Garner nodded with a sinking sensation. Given human nature—But here he stopped himself. How many people really would be willing to imprison and bleed a
