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“Why didn’t you cal us?” Chase jotted something on his pad of paper.
“I did cal the station, but they said you were out on a case, so I decided to take a look-see myself. I was going to tel you anything I found out, but when Menol y told me about Morio and the ghosts, and Ivana Krask, it kind of slipped my mind to cal .” He shrugged.
“Did you find the guy?” I asked as Chase tossed his pad and pen on the table.
Wade shook his head. “No. I scoured the park and al I found were a bunch of ghosts. They’re thick there, and frankly it creeped me out, so I left not long after we talked.” He motioned to me.
“How is Morio, by the way? Any better?”
“I was just going to walk over to the medic unit and find out. But first, I think Chase has a list of dates that he’d like to check you against.”
Chase withdrew a sheet of paper from his pocket and consulted it. “Where were you on December third?”
“That’s easy enough. December third was the Vampires Anonymous meeting. I was there setting up for the group from the time I woke up—sunset until the meeting broke up at two A.M.
Brett was with me. Then, afterward, a group of us decided to go for some late-night bowling.”
Chase and I stared at each other.
“Bowling? You bowl?” Chase was trying to repress a smirk.
I broke out laughing. “Why doesn’t that surprise me?”
“I happen to love bowling, thank you. I was on a league when I was stil alive.” Wade scowled at us. “I’l have you know, I used to bowl in the high two hundreds, and I stil do.”
Recovering his composure, Chase cleared his throat. “What about after that? Were you there til sunrise?”
“No, but after we left there, Brett and Mandy and I hit a new club that’s recently opened up.”
“Mandy? Who’s Mandy?” I gave him a saccharine smile but then winked to let him know I was just teasing him.
He frowned and ducked his head. “Mandy Treat is my new girlfriend.” But he didn’t sound happy about it. “Wel , she’s my mother’s choice of girlfriends for me. I don’t real y care for dating her, but you know my mother . . .”
I did, indeed, know his mother. And that was why Wade and I had broken up before we ever real y got a relationship started. “Yeah, I do. They broke the mold when they made Belinda.”
“What’s the name of the club?” Chase asked, pen poised.
Wade tossed a packet of matches over to the detective. It had a black cover with white lettering.
I picked it up and examined the logo. A single drop of crimson blood dripped from one fang. The lettering read: The Jagged Fang.
“The Jagged Fang? That’s a new one to me. Why haven’t I heard about it?” I passed the matches to Chase.
“Club just opened last month. One of our VA members is running it—it’s far less dangerous than the Fangtabula or Dominick’s. Club is for vamps, but also for humans who want to walk on the dangerous side, yet live. No drinking from unwil ing customers al owed, no mesmerizing al owed, no minors al owed. No sex on the premises al owed. In other words, an R-rated club.”
Chase flipped back through his date book. “Okay, we have your alibi for that night. I’l need to talk to Mandy and Brett, of course. What about for November twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth?
Thirtieth? And December first?”
Wade pul ed out his PDA and began flipping through the touch screens. “Busy freak, aren’t I?
Here we go. Twenty-sixth: another Vampires Anonymous meeting. We meet once a week now.
After that was over, I don’t have an alibi. I went home, watched TV, read, played video games—oh wait, I can prove it with my online login records. I logged in at midnight and played Superhero City until sunrise. We had a raid going on.”
A mama’s boy and a gamer. Joy, that was one boat ride to romance that I was glad I missed.
“Twenty-eighth, I had a date with Mandy and she spent the night.”
