Chapter 31
“Since I’m here,” Kira said later that evening in Michael’s apartment, “I'd like to see the red pearl. I’m sure Jianjun would as well.”
“Actually,” Jianjun said. “You’re wrong. I don’t want to have anything to do with it.”
Kira’s words not only surprised Michael, but ratcheted up his suspicions about her. Why, he wondered, had the fox singled her out for the attack? Did it have something to do with her father, since a demon—he suspected—was the cause of his death? Were they now after Kira as well, or was she somehow connected to them because she carried her father’s genes? Was the attraction she held over Jianjun natural or demonic? “Until we find out more about the pearl and what it does, that's not a good idea.”
“Is it in the apartment?” she asked.
“Let’s just say it’s sa
