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The smell of Ren is nauseating to me. Werewolves generally have that characteristic. Their blood is disgusting to vampires.
There are stories of unnatural alliances between werewolves and vampires, where vampires and werewolves have children, or ingest blood from one another. It never ends well.
Ren is my guiding light, if the light wasn’t aggravating and itchy to me. Having him around instantly turns my appetite, and redirects me from the temptation to drink human blood.
“Regarding that,” I say. “I have been pursuing a case in the field, but it was not regarding the human murder case.”
He looks at me oddly.
“Okay, first of all,” he says. “You’ve got to stop referring to everything as ‘human’ cases. When anything involves a shifter or a type of creature, we just lead with that. Otherwise, it’s assumed it probably involves humans.”
I nod in surrender, even though I don’t plan to abide by that.
“Second of all, what?” He asks. “Your reports have all said you were out pursuing the case. What have you been doing these past several days?”
I look around, and lean into him with a hushed whisper, as he teeters on the edge of my desk.
“Do you promise to keep a secret?”
He furrows his eyebrows.
“I can’t make that promise before you tell me what it is,” he says. “What the hell is going on?”
“I have been stalking a woman who I believe might be related to our case,” I say.
The expression on his face adjusts, becoming one of agitation and immediate concern.
“You what?” He asks. “How is she related to our case?”
“I do not know yet,” I say. “You can call it a hunch.”
“‘I can call it a hunch,’” he repeats back to me. “Dude. You’re leaving out major details. You’re lying to your boss. What am I supposed to think?”
“That you are happy for me?” I say simply.
“Why would I be happy for you?” He replies. “You have been way off the handle lately.”
“Because I finally found a lead.”
“You don’t even know that she’s a lead,” Ren says. “Man, you’ve had major problems with this kind of thing before. You can’t get five feet within a human without your eyes going red. This is a problem.”
“Promise me you are not going to report this,” I say. “I can control myself - you know that. And this is my one opportunity to atone.”
Ren hesitates. I am glad that werewolves cannot read minds, otherwise this might be challenging.
“Okay,” Ren says finally. “But you’re courting disaster. And I’m coming with you.”
“You are certainly not,” I reply. “You can join me for any direct infiltration missions. But tailing Quinn-”
“Tailing ‘Quinn,’” he replies simply, before folding his arms in disapproval. “Sounds to me like you have a personal connection to a person of interest now.”
I shake my head. That slip-up was unfortunate, but he cannot keep me from my thrall.
“Tailing her requires stealth,” I say simply. “And on the last occasion I checked, stealth is not a strong characteristic of werewolves. That’s the way we’ve always done things.”
He looks at me seriously now.
“I know how it is with you vampires,” he says. “My last partner was a vampire too. There’s a reason for that. We keep each other in check, balance out each others’ weaknesses.”
