How to Elude a Vampire (VRC Vampire Related Crimes #2) - Alice Winters Page 0,90
just want to be weak and get eaten!”
I grab him in a headlock and pull him down. “I will eat you,” I growl. “It’ll just take a lot longer.”
He snorts and that’s when my eyes lock on to Miller who is leaving Brooks’s office, and what Marcus was saying about hearing two sets of footsteps sinks in.
“The monster knows what I’m doing and where I’m at. But how? Is he following me around or does he have other vampires working with him, like the man who killed Perez?”
“If we’re going with this theory, we have the people who attacked you on the bus as well.”
“I have a thought. Stay here,” I say as I pull my phone out and toss it on Marcus’s lap then trail after Miller. I wait until he heads down the hallway, out of sight of the others. Once he’s on the second floor ready to talk to someone, I step up to him.
“Shit,” I say.
He turns and looks at me. “What’s wrong?”
“I forgot my phone and don’t want to run all the way back in there. Can I borrow your phone so I can send a text to my dad? He’s been on my ass since this happened. Won’t let me go anywhere and I kind of forgot to let him know.”
“Yeah, sure,” he says as he hands it over just as the woman he was waiting on turns to him. I pull up a text to Orin and type out that I’m going to send him a fake text and to reply to it like he would a real one and then I delete it before sending him a text about how I forgot my phone. He responds by telling me that I shouldn’t go anywhere without my phone and I should get back home.
While he’s busy doing that, I go to Miller’s call log and scroll all the way back to the day that Perez was killed. I take a screenshot of his call log and send it to Marcus before deleting the picture and the text to Marcus and replying to Orin.
“Thanks,” I tell Miller before heading over to chat with Foster. I don’t actually have anything to say to her, but I didn’t want it to look like I came up here just to stalk Miller. After a few minutes, I head back downstairs to find Marcus poring over a notepad.
“This is from Miller’s phone?” he whispers.
I nod. “I didn’t get a chance to look at it. I didn’t want him suspicious. Anything off?”
“So, the call from Perez’s phone to Miller’s phone that Miller claims ended abruptly was at nine fifty-two and is marked as a missed call. According to this log, Miller never accepted any call from Perez. At nine fifty-three, Perez’s body cam shows the attack, which correlates well with the time that Miller claims to have lost the call from Perez’s phone and then called him back. But Miller was clearly lying about picking up the call.”
“Say he asked to borrow Perez’s phone before the attack and he used it to call himself, he couldn’t answer the phone because Perez was with him,” I say.
“You think he had Perez’s phone and called himself?” Marcus asks.
“Maybe. It’d explain how he was able to make the calls back and forth without answering any of them if he was involved.”
He nods. “It would make sense. How else does this elder vampire know everything about you? While Miller’s never worked with us before, he’s been adamant about being on this case.”
“He’s not… he’s tall enough to be him. His body type is different.”
Marcus shakes his head. “No. But he’s probably working with him.”
“We need to find proof,” I say.
“We need to take this to Brooks and get permission for an arrest.”
“No,” I say as I grab his wrist before he can get up.
Marcus looks over at me like I’m crazy. “No? Oh… do you want me to murder Miller or torture him? I can do that as well. I’m extremely good at torture.”
“No, as in, I don’t want Miller to know we’re on to him. He could lead us to him. Or we could get information out of Miller!”
“You want to follow him?” Marcus asks quietly. The issue with working with vampires is they can hear everything, so we have to be extremely careful.
“Yes. Do you think that man is Miller’s maker? Do you think that’s why he’s listening to him?”
“We don’t know yet that he is working for him. That’s all