CH 4: A NEW CASE
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After taking a few long sips from the coffee cup in my hand, I look out to the streets and stop the first taxi I can.
"Poker Club.", I say to the taxi driver as I make my way into the orange vehicle.
"Ok Ma'am.", The taxi driver.. a man in his fifties with short brown hair and a friendly face that holds more wrinkles from stress than age responds to me before calmly stepping on the gas.
I didn't drive a car out today for a two main reasons. Firstly, I have never really liked driving long distances and secondly with my current emotional state I cannot exactly trust myself behind wheels. We wolves are known for intense emotional bursts after all.
Perhaps due to my recent harsh comment on my inability to shift, Yuri has been quiet. Leaning back into the taxi chair I embrace the steady hum of the taxi's engine as I find mental silence for the first time in a while. For the moment as I take time-out to organise my scattered thoughts.
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The taxi ride went rather smoothly compared to most others I have had. About two hours after I hopped into the vehicle I find myself at my desired location(Poker Club).
Before getting off the vehicle, I pay for the taxi ride and I give the taxi driver a ridiculous amount of two hundred dollars in tip. It is quite the sum but considering my paycheck as an upper director in the pack giving such tips is something I can afford to do with losing the weight of my purse.
'Here we go.. again.', I prepare myself mentally while looking at the entrance of a popular modern night club located in the shadier areas on the urban bustling streets of the city 'Caritas'.
It's early noon so Poker Club being a night-time business is currently closed but this does not prevent me from going straight at the entrance door before stepping inside.
Like many other business ventures in the city which includes chains of hotels, casinos, hangout hubs and restaurants.. Poker Club is owned by my pack. The multiple business ventures we own or manage are amongst the pack's primary income sources though these businesses also serve as a font to hide our darker underground dealings.
These dark dealings includes the buying and selling of guns, blades and supernatural weapons, the assassination of wanted criminals or supernatural beings, buying and selling of drugs for pack members(Cause normal medications do not work on wolves) and most importantly the maintenance of balance to ensure that the supernatural order does not affect or get noticed by the mundane order.
We shifters and a very organised society and as far as the Supreme Supernatural Council(SSC)is concerned, the city of Caritas and its surrounding areas falls under my pack's jurisdiction. We are to account for everything supernatural that goes off track in this city and if we are unable to account properly for the area we control then we may be replaced by the council and likely split then absorbed by multiple other packs.
Knowing this dark reality, my pack has enforced strict rules on all supernatural activities that take place in the city though there are a lot of other supernatural beings in the city that do not like the concept of rules and feel disdain at the concept of order. Amongst multiple crime-oriented supernatural species in the city of Caritas, the bloodsuckers take the crown when it comes to having a track record of vile actions without regard for consequences.
Murder, r**e, dark sacrificial offerings, theft, supernatural activities in broad daylight, selling of supernatural items to mundane criminal groups, hard drugs dealing, serial shifting, serial hunting and a whole lot more. The vampires in Caritas city commit all sorts of atrocities both against the mundane world and against the supernatural world.
Vampires are naturally erratic in nature and control. They are organised poorly and brutal in their means and reasonings. They are everything my pack hates and more though we have always managed to keep them in check(if only barely) but lately..
'Things are spiralling out of control.', Yuri voice echoes coldly in my mind as I look at the scene within Club poker with narrowed eyes.
Except from being slightly bigger and fancier, club poker looks just like any other night-time club out there with a DJ stand, a bar stand, room for dancing and a second floor that's mostly reserved for VIPs.
I have come to the club many times for inspection and I am pretty sure that nothing has changed much since my last visit though two pale bodies placed side by side in the middle of the dance-floor is definitely not a normal sighting.
"Welcome ma'am.", A young man wearing an Italian stripped black suit and deep purple tie greets me with a deep voice as I walk closer to the two bodies which currently has all my attention.
A single sniff was all it took for me to confirm it. One of the bodies belongs to s middle aged looking vampire and the other body belongs to a young human male.
The dead vampire woman still has her fangs out even in death and her clothes are covered in light but precise wolf's claw marks. A brutal stab mark in the position of her heart tells me what had truly killed the female bloodsucker.
"What happened?.", I furrow my brows as I question the formally suited wolf in the club who also moves closer to the bodies at the centre of the dance-floor.
"The woman is a new-born vampire though her newborn urges weren't limited to ruthless feeding. She was somehow powerful enough to put this human male under her hypnotic spell and for two months she made him into both her feeding bottle and her s** item.", The suited man explains to me while I calmly listen as I continue observing both bodies with professional bearings.
"It may have been due to the succubus nature of the bats or because of the man's um.. taste but he developed real feelings for the woman.", The suited man explains with his eyes showing a bit of cold sympathy for the dead man laying motionless on the dancefloor.
"After passing through her newborn transition, the woman likely lost interest in him though he kept looking for her despite knowing she is beyond the realms of mundane.", I(Violet) speak out of experience of cases like this and getting no denial from the suited man, I'm correct.
"Yes. The man actually found her at a nearby alley last evening though she wasn't happy to know he has been on her trail.", The suited man says while nodding his head as if connecting dots in his head.
Looking at he corpses, except from healed bite marks on the man's neck and a slightly unnaturally pale skin I see no marks on the dead man's body that could have resulted in death but then the suited man continues his story to bring more clarity.
"After he found her, she took him to a motel and drained him nonstop for hour till he died.", The man explains to me while glancing at the dead man's crouch with pity in his eyes and I immediately understand the ugly picture being conveyed.
'Those darn bats!.', My wolf growls in rage while I close my eyes briefly for a heavy sigh.
"I heard the man's final scream from a street away and then I found her and the man's body in the motel room. She is still a newborn so she stood no chance. I tore her apart then brought them here right before daylight so that you can call the verdict.", The suited man says calmly before looking towards me. Licking my lips briefly, I look at the suited man before nodding my head with composure.
"You did well Liam.", I complement calmly though I cannot force a smile to my lips given the sore situation. Liam nods back at me and then I continue to speak.
"I would get legal and mundane on this. The man would be painted to be in an accident the matches his wounds and his family would be compensated as best we can manage.", I speak calmly while Liam nods.
"And for the bat?.", Liam asks with his thick brows raised up.
"We will burn her body. A squad would be commissioned to find the irresponsible bloodsucker responsible for her creation. No newborn should be created on whim and no newborn should be let free in the world till they have found stability. We will make them pay for their irresponsibility in blood!.", I calmly propose while Liam nods in agreement before taking a step closer to me as his voice become more casual.
"Let me treat you to lunch, you look utterly exhausted.", Liam proposes softly with his brows up as he looks calmly into my light honey coloured eyes.
Heralt Liam.
One of my closest friends and ally. He is the son of the pack Elder(Elder Lucas) and he is one of the few lone walkers of the pack. His job as a lone-walker is to blend in with the mundane people of the city and tackle or spy on any illegal activity related to the supernatural.
Deep blue eyes, a very manly six foot three build that towers over my five foot eight frame and a set of sharp facial features that comes with a trim moustache. Liam is quite the model man for most female human and wolves alike plus his wealth and strength makes him even more attractive.
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