Blake, Abby - Vampires' Witness [PUP Squad Alpha 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Online Free Page A

from humans. The cleaning crews were very good at their job. It was the fact that they looked like seven-year-old human girls that gave Benjamin and the rest of his team the creeps.
    Skye rolled in his arms, wriggling closer as she continued to sleep. Absently he ran his hand over her hair, soothing her as he continued his conversation with Thomas.
    “Tomorrow,” Thomas said with a slightly amused smile as he glanced at what Benjamin was doing with his hand, “Alex and I are planning to talk to some of the locals. There are quite a few businesses in town owned by paranormals. If the women’s attackers have money they’ll probably be staying in one of the motels. Maybe one of the locals took notice.” He shrugged. At this point in their mission they inevitably hit a few dead ends. “If not, we’ll check into some of the more common vamp hidey-holes in the afternoon.” Thomas’s tone of voice suggested he wasn’t looking forward to going wandering through the underground sewers. With his keen sense of smell it was bound to be unpleasant, but Benjamin knew his team well enough to know that they would all do what needed to be done when it needed to be done.
    In years gone by Benjamin would have suggested his friend plan to get some sleep also, but experience had taught him that when Thomas felt this strongly about a case that he should be left to do his job.
    “What about Skye?” Thomas asked with an expression Benjamin couldn’t really classify. “Should we consider you and Samuel off the mission for the moment?”
    “Maybe,” Benjamin said as Samuel stepped through the door adjoining the two hotel rooms. “We can’t leave her unprotected. If her attackers think she can identify them, she could be in even more danger.” Samuel nodded in agreement. It was most likely that he’d been listening to the conversation from the other room anyway. Vampire hearing might not be as good as a werewolf’s, but it was still way better than when they’d been human.
    “And the Ruling Body would be all over us if we left a fledgling to her own devices. There’s no telling what she might do if she wakes alone,” Samuel added.
    Benjamin hadn’t even thought of that. For at least the next couple of days Skye’s actions were likely to be ruled by instinct rather than her adult mind. It was probably the main reason why the Ruling Body had chosen to put a maker’s natural inclination to protect a fledgling vampire into their written laws. Protecting the secret of the paranormal community’s existence was essentially the reason they had a Ruling Body in the first place. Fledgling vampires could wreak all sorts of havoc if left to their own devices, and they certainly wouldn’t be aware of how their actions affected the rest of the paranormal community. Human beings as a whole tended to react poorly to things they didn’t understand and if history had taught Benjamin anything, it was that very few humans could be trusted to react calmly and rationally upon discovering that creatures supposedly only found in nightmares actually existed.
    There was a good chance that Skye wasn’t going to take the news of her change very well either.
    Thomas glanced at Samuel and then back at Benjamin. “I’m going to go bunk in with Alex. It’ll make it easier for you two to care for Skye if you’re sharing the same room.”
    Benjamin nodded his thanks, and within minutes Thomas had collected his stuff and moved into the adjoining room. Samuel sat down in the chair Thomas had vacated and, as if he couldn’t help himself, leaned over and ran his fingers through the silky strands of Skye’s long, straight, blonde hair.
    “I’ve drafted a report for Higgins, I’m not quite sure how to phrase ‘Oh and we made a vampire,’ so I sort of left it out.”
    “It’s probably not something the Ruling Body needs to know. What we do on our own time is our business. If Skye is able to identify her attackers we’ll explain her transformation