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8
SHANE
When Taos saidDixon was hiding in a fancy hotel, he wasn’t kidding. The hotel was close to downtown Calgary, and it had valets and bellmen with white gloves, a red carpet at the entrance, and so far, we had seen at least three Porsches and two Ferraris stop in the curved driveaway. The front was glass with golden pillars and we could see the luxurious reception with plenty of velvet couches, tall statues, giant flower arrangements, and guests dressed in their finest.
“Why would a demon hide in a hotel like this?” Dom asked from my right.
We were at a coffeeshop across the street, sitting at three different tables, all of us with laptops or books, as if we were working. Though we didn’t know what we would find, I thought a large group would only make things more difficult to coordinate, so I had only brought Killian, Lavinia, and Dom. We had met with Taos and earlier that morning when we arrived in town.
“Hide in plain sight?” I suggested. It was my only train of thought. Why hide in a shitty inn in a small town, when you can lose yourself in a big city? I adjusted the baseball cap I had donned for this mission. “It isn’t a bad idea.”
“Taos, you said he came in late last night?” Killian asked. “And hasn’t left yet?”
Taos shook his head. “Louis has been stationed at the back entrance since then and so far, none of us has seen him leaving.”
“We swept the hotel yesterday,” Kalon said. “There’s only another entrance to the side, but it spills there.” He pointed to a narrow alley between the hotel and the building beside it. “Or to the back. Either way, we would have seen it.”
“Unless he turned into a bat and flew from here,” Dom joked. Lavinia chuckled and Killian rolled his eyes. “What? That was funny.”
I shook my head. It was almost noon. We had been here since sunrise. He either had seen us and wasn’t leaving because of that, or he had already left, somehow. We couldn’t waste the day away here.
“All right,” I said. “We’ll wait for another hour. If he doesn’t show, Killian and Lavinia will go in the hotel and search for him. If he’s in there, flush him out. Taos will go with Dom to the farm outside of town, to see if he’s there. Either way—”
I shut my mouth when a man stepped out of the hotel.
Dixon.
He wore a long black jacket with the large collar turned up, hiding half of his face. He halted at the entrance and glanced side to side.
“We should get him now,” Dom suggested.
“We’re too exposed here.” If wolf shifters and vampires attacked a demon in daylight in the middle of a big city, it would be chaos. “Let’s follow him. Dom, discreetly get the car ready.”
He nodded, closed his book and notepad, put them inside his bag, and walked away.
A minute later, a red Mustang stopped in front of Dixon. A valet stepped out and held the door open for him. Dixon didn’t acknowledge the valet as he entered his car. He drove away fast.
We shot up, grabbed our things, and ran to the cars.
Dom had our black SUV ready, with the doors open in the coffeeshop’s side parking lot. We jumped inside—me in the passenger seat, Killian and Lavinia in the third row, Taos and Kalon in the second row.
“Go,” I said as soon as everyone hopped in.
Dom stepped on it and we chased after the red Mustang. In three blocks, we caught up with Dixon. Behind us, a silver sedan appeared. Louis.
We maintained a healthy distance from the Mustang, and when he left the town and traffic was almost nonexistent, we let him go. Taos told us he was on the way to the farm and he knew how to get there.
Of course, that didn’t mean Dixon couldn’t have changed routes or go somewhere else, but I was willing to see how it panned out.
We parked the SUV and the sedan a good mile from the farm. We walked the rest of the way, through the neighboring land, with our eyes and ears always open for patrols.
But there was nothing.
We approached the farm. Weathered boards danged from the roof of the barn, and the doors flapped in the wind. A handful of cars were parked in the back, including a red Mustang.
“How many demons have you seen?” I asked the vampires.
“A little over a dozen,” Taos said as we crouched behind a wooden fence covered with dying vines. “But we think there are more inside.”
