Sucker Punch (First Fangs Club #3) - Kristen Painter Page 0,40
intense sunscreen, right?”
“Not exactly. I have some witches working on a way to make me temporarily immune. But I’m not subjecting anyone else to that risk. Plus, I really don’t want you to get hurt. So thank you. I love you for offering. But no.”
“You can’t tell me what to do.” Neo grinned. “There has to be a way I can help.”
“Not unless you can come up with some high-tech thing that kills fae that I don’t know about.”
Neo’s mouth opened. “Yes, girl, that’s it.”
“What is?”
“Temo!” Neo shouted toward the stairs.
“Yes?” he shouted back.
“You have an SUV that’s sunproof?”
“For you, baby, anything.”
Neo grinned. “I’m going with you. But I promise to stay in the car.”
“So just for moral support, then?”
“Ha, no. This is the perfect time to test out a little project I’ve been working on. The Skynet 2020.” She wiggled her brows. “I just need to run home and get it.”
“What kind of a project is this exactly?”
“A weaponized drone with the capability to hunt down fae and blast them with iron filings.” Her grin widened. “Technically, weaponized drones aren’t legal for civilian use, but we’re vampires, and this is war, so…” She shrugged.
“A thing like that had to be incredibly expensive to make.” Donna knew Neo was too young a vampire to be independently wealthy from years of smart investing. “Should I even ask where you got the money?”
“Okay, also technically, I’m building it for a stupid-rich vampire client as part of his home defense, but this will be the perfect time to test it out.” She nudged Donna with her elbow. “What do you say?”
Having a drone in the air would be a real advantage. Especially against an enemy that could fly. If the drone got damaged or destroyed, Neo would be on the hook for that, though.
Thankfully, the governor’s accounts ran deep. “I say you’re on the team.”
Chapter Fourteen
Temo came upstairs a few moments later. Neo grinned at him. “Hey, baby, I’m on the team. I’m going to stay in the car, though, out of the sun, and fly my killer drone.”
Baby. Donna tried not to get silly, but it was so cute. She wanted to hug them both.
“Cool.” His smile faded slightly as he looked at Donna. “Boss, bad news. Ishalan can’t get the antidote. He said he tried every possible source he has, but no one’s talking, and he doesn’t know what drugs they used. He feels bad. I could tell.”
That brought Donna down to earth. She took a deep breath. “That’s about what I expected.”
Dr. Fox walked in, looking around. “Do you know where Jerabeth is?”
“She went to talk to some of her associates about working on another project I need done before the raid,” Donna said.
He shook his head. “She probably told me she was leaving. I get a little single-minded when I’m in the midst of a project like this.”
“Anything new?”
He frowned. “Nothing worth getting excited about. All the same, could you spare a moment to come to the salon with me? There is something I’d like to show you.”
“Sure.” She looked at Neo. “Back in a bit.”
“Don’t worry about me. I have to run home to get the drone. I’ll be back as soon as I can so I’m ready to go.”
“Okay, see you then.” Donna followed Dr. Fox back to the salon.
He shut the door, then directed her to the area he’d turned into his workspace. “Watch this.”
He took a few drops of blood from a vial and put them in a glass dish. Next, he brought over a small light bar. He turned it on, directed the light over the sample for several long seconds, then turned it off. He set the light aside to open another vial of clear liquid. He sprinkled a few drops of the liquid onto the blood.
He put the vial away and looked at her expectantly. “See?”
Nothing had changed, so Donna was stumped as to what she was expected to learn from the demonstration. “I promise I paid close attention, but I didn’t see anything. It looked like nothing happened.”
Brows high, he faced her, putting his hands in the pockets of his lab coat. “That’s exactly right. Nothing happened. What makes that interesting are the details. That was your blood. Under UV light. And then sprinkled with holy water.”
She had a feeling where this was going. Her fingers itched to touch her crucifix. “And?”
“Let me back up. I first tried the UV light thinking I could turn your blood to ash, then do