"Her name?"
"Adeline Greenfield. She came highly recommended."
It wasn’t a name I was familiar with, but Ilianna might know her. Either way, she was worth talking to, if only to uncover the extent of the spell.
"The fact you’re the second councilor to be attacked suggests this might have something to do with the council itself. Has there been a decision or action taken recently that was met with opposition?"
She waved a dismissive hand. "Council decisions are always controversial. There’s rarely one hundred percent agreement in the vampire community at large, let alone on either of the councils."
That’s because the vampire community as a whole is—
I stopped the thought cold when her gaze narrowed again. The sooner I got to Stane’s and had those damn nanowires fitted, the better. "So there’s no one decision that sticks out as worse than the rest?"
"Not to my knowledge, no."
"Then why do you think you and Boulanger have been targeted this way?"
She shrugged—a movement that emphasized the thinness of her shoulders. "The two of us are council elders—there are three in all—and therefore have the controlling votes, but I cannot think of anything we’ve overruled recently that would merit any sort of retribution."
"Meaning there’s been stuff in the past that might?"
"It is possible. We are not angels."
I snorted softly. That surely had to be the understatement of the year. "I don’t suppose you could write a list of people who might hold a grudge against the two of you? It would give us something to work with."
"Such a list would only be useful if Boulanger were able to write one. He cannot."
It was interesting that she continued to avoid referring to Pierre in past tense. "Maybe not, but I’ve asked Hunter to see what she can come up with."