Reyes walked over to them. “Any insights?”
Raking both hands through his thick dark hair, Luke shrugged. “I didn’t do it. I’m innocent. Don’t believe what the dog tells you. Everyone knows Prince is a liar.”
The captain rolled her eyes. “What about you?” she asked Sorcha.
“I didn’t do it, either,” she couldn’t resist saying before she shook her head. “I got nothing except a possible headache.” She glanced toward Luke. “Maybe fleas.”
Reyes laughed.
There was a glint in his eyes that said Luke might be amused, but if that was true, then he needed to tell it to the rest of his face. Even so, the smirk on his lips was adorable. “Anyway, we are in accord in that we have no idea what happened.”
Reyes nodded slowly. “Can you find out? That is, after all, why I’m paying you the little bucks.”
Putting his hands in his pockets, Luke shrugged. “I’ll ask my deems and see what they say.”
“All right. They’re wrapping up the evidence.” Reyes clapped Sorcha gently on the shoulder. “It’s been a long day. I’ll get the reports from the police as soon as they’re filed. Why don’t you head home, and we’ll see you in the morning.”
Sorcha stifled a yawn. She was rather beat. Reyes was right, it’d been a long day. “Thanks.”
Luke dug his keys from his pocket. “I’ll take you back to the office.”
As they headed for his car, she realized that Helly wasn’t waiting for them. “Don’t you need your imp?”
Making a face, he shook his head. “She’ll get back when she’s ready.”
Should Helly be out on her own? Sorcha wasn’t sure it was a good idea to leave a Hell imp on the streets unattended. “You leave her often?”
“She’s a grown imp. Much older than I am. And she doesn’t need a car to travel.”
Sorcha opened the door and glanced back toward the area where the student had been placed so unceremoniously. “Don’t you worry about her?”
“Not at all. And you shouldn’t either. It’s the humans who should be afraid.”
Great. That was even worse. “Will she hurt them?”
“Only if they try to hurt her first and then…payback’s a pissed off imp and if we’re lucky, we can film it and make big bucks on TikTok.”
And with that she was definitely afraid as he turned on the car and its huge engine roared to life.
Helly was out on the loose and so was an unknown killer who could be some preternatural predator, or a psycho hunting students.
Her head really hurting now, Sorcha pulled out her pad to jot down a few notes as Luke drove.
Neither of them spoke as he returned her to her car that was parked across the street from their office.
Sorcha got out and hesitated. “Guess I’ll see you in the morning.”
“I’ll be here. Even though I hate mornings with the burning passion of a thousand suns…or the heat of my father’s deepest pit.” After winking at her, he drove off toward the garage.
She stood there for a moment, looking back at the building where her day had started. Infernal Affairs. Had she made a mistake by coming here?
In one day, she’d investigated a Dire Wolf sighting, met a shapeshifter, an angel, several ghosts and had ended up with a slaughtered college student whose image would haunt her for eternity.
And met the son of the devil and his Hell imp.
Heck of a first day.
“Terrified of tomorrow.” But a weird part of her couldn’t wait to see what would happen next. It’d been a long time since she felt this stirring of excitement. Since she’d actually looked forward to something.
