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Chapter Twenty-Four
Blake
The sun is just beginning to set when the last of the moving team leaves my new house. It’s amazing what a team of two-dozen professional packers can do in six hours. The agreement I’d settled on with the previous owner includes all the furnishings, aside from a few of his family heirlooms, so the house is pretty much move-in ready.
I’ve hired a private chef for the evening who’s just arrived with his team and is preparing a sumptuous meal for me and Tamsin. And hopefully Luciana, if Tamsin is able to achieve her breakthrough in the next couple of hours. I watch as one of the chef’s staff brings in several floral arrangements for the dining room table and sets out candles in crystal holders.
My phone rings and I pick it up. It’s Leyhren, one of my business contacts that I’d put out feelers with to get intel on the Night Guild.
“Any news for me, Leyhren?” I ask.
“Yes and no,” she says. “I haven’t been able to find much on whether they’re still tracking your girl Tamsin. It seems quiet on that front. If they’re still on her trail, they’re covering their tracks incredibly well.”
I frown. I don’t like not knowing things. Had our memory spell with the snoop that came sniffing around the Highlands work after all?
“But as for their operations overall, I’ve been able to locate three bases of operation, in addition to the one you already know about in Costa Rica.” She pauses. “We’ve found facilities in Japan, Russia, and Norway.”
“That’s good,” I say. “The more we know about them, the better. Now we can take the offensive, instead of waiting for them to come to us.”
“You always have been an ambitious man,” Leyhren says, her tone wry. “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.”
“I never do,” I say. “And what about leadership—any information on who’s running the show alongside Darkness?”
“No, that’s a dead end as well,” she says, her tone heavy with disappointment. Leyhren takes a lot of pride in her job, and she doesn’t like not knowing things either. “They are very good at keeping their secrets.”
“Okay, thanks for the update. Keep on it and we’ll talk soon.”
I hang up and shake my head. Finding intel on the Night Guild has proven harder than I thought it would be. Which is perhaps arrogant, but I’ve got a network that crosses the globe. My own business operations are not that dissimilar to the Guild, other than choices about ethics. So, given my expertise in this area, it’s more than a bit unnerving that I can’t find more on them.
But for the moment, my focus has to remain close to home. Once Tamsin finds a cure and I make sure she’s safe, I can take my fight to them. Because the future I’ve always wanted is right at my fingertips, and I’m not about to let anyone take it away from me.
