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Connor waited, then asked, “What’s going on, Iris?”
She didn’t respond, but he could still feel her streaming some kind of spell. And since Big Nuts hadn’t moved because he, too, was frozen in place, Connor turned toward the door. But no one was there. No one had come to support Gary’s troops.
He then looked back at Iris. Holy shit. She stood eyes closed, with her arms raised, her gun in hand and the pistol pointed toward the ceiling.
He finally understood. She was holding the room in some kind of stasis. All with her own power. Unbelievable.
But it was a brilliant move because he knew exactly how he could make this work for him.
He moved back to Big Nuts, whose eyes looked dull.
“Iris, it would help if you could partially release Gary.”
He felt her focusing intently and after a moment, Big Nuts finally blinked, meeting Connor’s gaze.
“Tell me now, Gary, who set me up and what species was he?”
Big Nuts shook his head. Despite the fact that his troops were immobilized and couldn’t come to his aid, he still wouldn’t give up the information.
Connor looked down at the man’s leopard pants and the two oversized bulges. How bad would it hurt if he was in a witch-trance?
Time to find out.
Using the butt of his gun, he came down on the left testicle.
Big Nuts arched his neck, opened his mouth wide and a high-pitched scream left his voice.
“Tell me now, Gary, or I’ll do the same to the other one.”
“He was a vampire but didn’t give me his name.” Gary’s face had turned bright red from pain. He also had a hard time pushing his words out of his throat. “He gave me cash. A lot of it. Seemed like a small thing to do, sending you out to Amado, then over to Sentinel. I didn’t know he meant to blow the bridge.”
“What did he look like?”
“Couldn’t see his face, only his eyes.” He squeezed each word out. He was having a hard time breathing. “Green, maybe hazel. Not sure. Black hair. Tall. Lean. But he was in shadow, like some kind of spell was on him. That’s all I know.”
“You called him, didn’t you? Before we came in.”
“Yes, he’s on his way. A couple minutes out.”
“Was he paying you more to turn us over?”
Big Nuts nodded. “A lot. The man has money.”
So they were dealing with a vampire of wealth, maybe the vampire who’d shown up at Iris’s just before they left.
“I should kill you for this.”
Big Nuts glanced down at his crotch. “I think you already did.”
Connor was pissed as hell. He brought the butt down on the other ball and watched as Big Nuts folded up then slid off the desk.
He returned to Iris, facing her. “Can you talk while you’re holding this spell?”
She shook her head, her eyes still closed.
“Can I?”
She nodded in quick bobs of her chin.
