That made him dangerous.
Just like Harmon had expected, it was fairly easy for Jacob to send everyone away.Harmon could hear whispers and conversations as the people went back to their rooms.Some of them sounded angry, but most appeared confused.They weren’t the only ones.Harmon had no idea what was happening.
“Everyone’s gone,” Jacob said as he walked back in.He carefully avoided looking down at the body.
“We can’t leave him here like this,” Rex said.“What do you do when someone here dies?”
Jacob frowned.“You want to know what we do with our dead?”
“Well, this guyisdead.You can’t leave him here, which means you have to do something with him.Unless you want us to take care of it?”
Jacob looked horrified.“No.I’ll do it.”
Harmon resisted the urge to roll his eyes because it wouldn’t help, but he’d already had enough of Jacob.What did he think they’d do, finish drinking the cadaver dry?
Merrick crouched next to the body again.He had his phone in hand and Harmon wasn’t surprised when he started taking pictures.That caught Jacob’s attention again, and he stepped forward.“What are you doing?”
“What does it look like I am doing?”
“You can’t take pictures.”
Merrick looked unimpressed when he glanced up at Jacob.“Can’t I?”
“It’s not respectful.”
“Do you know how many dead people have their pictures taken every day?Have you ever watched TV?I realize those cop TV shows aren’t real, but surely you know how this works.”
“You can’t call the cops.”
Merrick snorted.“You think?That’s why I’m taking pictures.The body isn’t going to stay like this forever, and we’ll need to be able to look back on all of this.”
Jacob looked like he wanted to continue arguing, but when Merrick reached out to gently poke at the knife in the guy’s chest, he turned slightly green and turned away.Harmon would have snickered if he hadn’t been sure everyone in the room would hear him.
Merrick seemed to have the situation in hand, so Harmon stepped away.There was no need for him to be hovering there.He might be a vampire, but he didn’t enjoy the sight of dead bodies.
“You okay?”Rex asked as he moved with Harmon.
Harmon wanted to snuggle against Rex’s chest, but instead, he nodded.“It’s not the first body I’ve had to deal with.”
“Same.”
That wasn’t a surprise.When people lived as long as they did, they saw a lot of humanity, from birth to death to everything in between.“Who do you think killed him?”he asked.
“Hard to say.I know it’s not one of us, but that doesn’t help.I don’t think Jacob actually believes it was us, but that doesn’t mean that he knows who it was.I think he felt this would be the perfect way to get rid of us, and he wouldn’t be wrong.”
“He should’ve been smart and shown us that he could be a good leader.We might already be gone if he had.”
“He doesn’t exactly strike me as being smart.”Harmon wouldn’t say that Jacob was stupid, but he’d been making stupid decisions.
They waited until Merrick was done and satisfied with the pictures he’d taken to leave the room.Jacob said he’d take care of the body, and Harmon didn’t need to know what that meant.It was none of their business.The clan would handle the body however they usually did, and that was that.
The problem was that the murder made everything more complicated.The situation had already been hard enough without adding stabbing people to the mix.Harmon was sure that no one in their small group had even thought about killing any of the clan dragons, but it could be anyone.
“We need more information,” he said as they walked back to their rooms.
Rex nodded.“Should we wait until tomorrow when everyone wakes up?”
The five of them took a moment to think that over.Harmon knew what he thought was the better idea, and he was sure he wasn’t the only one.
