Stolen Sorcery & Other Misadventures by Annette Marie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Annette Marie
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: New Adult & College Fantasy
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: April 7, 2023
“Shit’s about to go down.”
Beside me, Vincent Park nodded in terse agreement. It’d been a while
since we’d shared a cubicle, but he’d borrowed Lienna’s empty chair without
even asking first. I hadn’t complained. My cubicle offered a better angle for
spying on the rest of the bullpen than his did.
“She’s not actually going to do it, is she?” Vinny whispered. “No one is
that stupid.”
I shook my head. “I wouldn’t call it stupid. Desperate, maybe. Angry,
definitely. But she isn’t stupid.”
At the front of the bullpen, Agent Clarice Vigneault stood with her arms
crossed, tapping her foot against the floor like an electrocuted Michael
Flatley. Her tightly curled black hair vibrated in harmony with her spastic
foot, and her eyes, normally soft and welcoming, were fixated on one of the
bullpen’s three entrances with an air of furious expectation.
Everyone else surreptitiously watched her with the same doomsday
outlook as me. The atmosphere in the precinct had been toxically tense since
Söze had shown his extra ugly usurper side, and in the wake of recent events,
the levels of paranoia, defensiveness, and I-don’t-get-paid-enough-for-thisbullshit had climbed so high they were out of orbit.
“I should stop her,” I mumbled, sliding away from my hiding spot behind
the cubicle wall. “Distract her or something.”
Vinny caught my sleeve and tugged me back. “You want to tell a senior
agent what to do?”
“I want to make sure a good agent doesn’t make a career-ending decision
because she’s rightfully pissed off.”
“Don’t exaggerate. It won’t be career ending,” Vinny said with his usual
smug confidence, but he couldn’t hide the worried crease between his brows.
He was concerned for Agent Vigneault too.
Honestly, Vinny wasn’t that bad. The enemy of my enemy is my friend,
and all that. Plus, Vincent Park had proven himself beyond my ability to
doubt him—a highly acute ability, I might add. When it had really counted,
he’d fought on the side of justice, and that made his know-it-all, ass-kissing
swagger a little more bearable.
I still didn’t like him. That was impossible. Like liver-flavored ice cream.
Who could ever like that? But I could tolerate him.
Caught between the urge to divert Agent Vigneault and Vinny’s insistent
pull on my sleeve, I hesitated for a minute too long. The bullpen door swung
open, and the bane of the precinct’s existence walked through.
Agent Söze, Internal Affairs. I didn’t know his first name. I didn’t care to
learn it. All I needed to know was that he was the slimiest blend of evil and
insidious, he was totally cool with all means of villainy as long as he could
disguise it as MPD-approved justice, and he had totalitarian control of the
precinct and all its agents.
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