Courts and Cabals 2 by G.S. D'Moore (best novel books to read .txt) 📕

followed his dick as he pulled out of her, and spilled onto the sheets. There was no way they could get away with ignoring the maids now. He went to get her water as she went to fetch the contraceptives from her bag. She tossed the horse pill back and washed it down with the glass.

There wasn’t going to be a repeat tonight, but he was okay with that. He was warm with satisfaction, the buildup in his balls was gone, his girlfriend was here, and he had another body for surveillance. As far as Christmas gifts went, he’d just won the jackpot.

***

Aveena didn’t give a shit about the humans New Year’s celebration. If anything, it showed how weak and short their pathetic lives were. A few dozen of these and they were a blood bag in the ground. She was beginning to hate being in this realm, and being in this city only heightened that feeling.

“I’m running out of time,” she felt an itch between her shoulder blades that she couldn’t scratch, and she didn’t try in front of her people.

She only had three days left, and so far, she had nothing to show for all her hard work. Saffron was sitting with the South African mercenary, going over the latest facial recognition results. The two had been attached at the hip for days. They hid it well; they sat together going over contingency operations, or refining the parameters of the search criteria within the LVPD and federal servers they were piggybacking on. Aveena was pretty sure they were attached at the crotch when she wasn’t looking. She’d have to do something about that, but Saffron could get mopey when her latest toy suddenly broke.

“Another day, and then I have no choice . . . fuck,” she looked into the closet where boxes with military markings were filled with plastic explosives.

She’d need something big enough to clear the hotel and allow her people to get in disguised as first responders. That meant massive destruction, maybe damaging the foundation, or taking down one of the resort’s wings. Either way, hundreds would die. That didn’t bother her. What did was the flack the Fae would get if it ever became known they were involved. It was basically a declaration of war, and The Nine didn’t want that; at least, not yet.

Either way, it looked like all the mercenaries in the room would have to meet with unfortunate ends. “The only question is how?” she mused when a loud beep echoed through the room.

Everyone froze and looked at one of the monitors. The tech working it look surprised at first, but then his fingers flew across the keyboard.

“What is it?” she caused the man to jump. He didn’t even hear her move.

“We got a spike on one of the warded cameras,” he stated.

Saffron was able to use her connections to link up with a retired LVPD mage. He knew the spell to recognize a Fae’s glamour. It couldn’t see through it, but it could recognize it. If the old detective had any misgivings, Saffron’s smile and an envelope of cash made them evaporate. They’d only been able to get a third of the cameras warded, but it was enough to have at least one angle of each entrance covered.

“Where?” Aveena was practically breathing down the guy’s neck, and she could smell he was thrilled and terrified by the attention.

He hit his keyboard like it owed him money and brought up the feed and a freeze frame. “The front entrance,” he sounded as surprised as she felt.

“Cocky bastards,” she looked at the picture, willing it to reveal the true identities of the people strolling out the entrance like they were headed to dinner and a show.

A glowing nimbus surrounded two of the individuals on the screen, while the other two looked like plain, ordinary bodyguards. Famous people went in and out of Caesars all the time, so this wasn’t out of the ordinary. The cameras showed them hopping into a black SUV with tinted windows and driving away.

“Do we have the vehicle?” she shot Saffron a look. Thankfully, the dryad wasn’t too busy dry humping the mercenary captain to do her job.

“We’ve got it on the street cameras heading toward the university,” she pulled up the footage of the SUV heading down East Flamingo Road.

“I want a team on that SUV,” Aveena ordered. “You’ll lead it, Saffron. If it’s Cam, you’ll call me in and I’ll take him down. If this is a decoy, then we’re not out of position,” she weighed her options.

“Yes, ma’am,” Saffron sauntered out of the room, with four men carrying concealed weapons.

“Rock,” Aveena turned to her new troll, “go with her. If she needs muscle, you’re it.”

The other Fae grunted and lumbered after the dryad. He’d been stewing for days. He wanted to fuck the nature Fae, but she was fucking the human. It would work well for Aveena to let him have his fun with the captain when this was all said and done.

“It’s a win-win for everyone,” she smiled and settled in to watch the hodgepodge of feeds following the closest thing to a lead she’d had since she received this mission.

She prayed to all the gods; old, new, Fae, and human that this was Cam. Otherwise, she was totally fucked.

Chapter 14

The line was at least two hundred yards long; two full football fields of people waiting to be let in. Dani walked right past them like they didn’t exist. It was funny because she didn’t look like the strong, confident, buxom dwarf who could cow people with a look.

I was by no means a master of glamour. Lark drove that point home to me every day since I’d learned the rudimentary use of my new Fae gift. What I had done was learn enough to cast a glamour