He looked around the apartment as if searching for the answer there. "No?"
I bit my lip. This wasn't right.
Inara and Lowen greeted me on my return nine times out of ten. Even if this was the tenth time, as soon as I mentioned trouble they should have been out here.
"Something is wrong." I could feel it in my bones.
I moved toward my bedroom and the window overlooking the street there. It had a better angle than the living rooms. Shoving several books and decorations aside, I pulled back the blackout curtains, scanning the ground below.
Connor peered over my shoulder. "What are we looking for?"
"I'm sure we'll know it when we see it."
Nothing was there that I could see. It was my normal parking lot, the street beyond it. The row houses that lined the other side were calm and still.
I checked my phone for the time. The captain should have been here by now.
"Where is he?" I said quietly.
"Who?"
"The person I was supposed to meet."
Connor's eyebrows pulled down in a frown. "I thought we were only picking up a few things."
I aimed a look his way. "You should know by now I don't always tell Thomas everything."
"But Liam does." To himself, he said, "Or at least he did."
I couldn't explain that, so I didn't even try. Liam was his own person. He knew sharing my business with him wasn't easy for me. If he chose to keep my secrets to himself, that was his decision.
I never asked him to, but I appreciated it all the same. I knew he and Thomas had a long history.
I leaned against the dresser under the window and faced Connor. "How much do you know of my story?"
"Not much. I wanted to let you tell me."
One side of my mouth lifted up. A man after my own heart.
"When Thomas made me, he was under a curse that prevented him from making young. One of the ways it did that was to make him lose control of his bloodlust when he fed."
Connor frowned, pensive lines forming on his forehead.
I waved at my chest. "I'm the result. When I woke after he lost himself, I was in a morgue. I had no idea what I was. That's when Captain Travis Spencer found me. He helped me navigate my new reality, got me a job, and sent me home. He's who I'm planning to meet."
"He didn't alert the local clan about you?" Connor asked.
"Nope."
"He left you alone to face this with no one to provide company or support?"
I paused. I hadn't really thought of it that way, but I guess Connor was right.
The captain had done the bare minimum to ensure my survival. Jerry had been more integral to educating me to the facts of vampire life.
The captain hadn't even called to check in until now.
Connor was silent as he contemplated the view. "I don't mean to speak out of turn, sister."
