Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 05
Denton woke up with a start. The dream was already fading, but it had unnerved him. "You okay?" The wolf next to him asked, then had a jaw breaking yawn. "Yeah, sorry if I woke you. Just a nightmare," Denton said. "No worries buddy. What...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 04
"Evening, Fred," Denton waved to the desk sergeant as he left the precinct. He took out his phone and turned on Prowlr, now that he wasn't on duty anymore. While it was true that as a detective he was never really off duty, when he was allowed to go...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 03
The three bodies were rats, one in his fifties, one in his thirties, and one teens. Their throats had been slit, and the blood formed a pool around them, so that they couldn't get close without stepping in it. "Shit," Flint said. "That's Alistair...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 02
The foyer, because this certainly wasn't an entryway, was majestic. The floors were a brown stone with gold veins running through them. Anywhere else, Denton would just think it was something that looked gold, something golden. But here, he wouldn't be...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 01
Denton whistled through his teeth. "That's one big fucking place." "It's a mansion," Alice said, "Of course it's big." He nodded. It had too be five hundred yards away, white marble, columns. The place could probably house everyone who worked...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 16
Denton, Martin, Stefan, Colby and Fred were sitting around the bar in the living room, beers in hand. Fred got in not long after Doctor Emerson, helping his brother in. The fire had burned the fur clean off his back and sides, they'd gone to a...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 15
"What are those?" Denton asked, waving a hand at the symbols on the ceiling. "A major Shielding spell," Stefan answered. Denton gave him a blank look. "Think of it as a more powerful version of what I did for you." Denton looked the...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 14
The smell of salmon and lemon enveloped him when he entered. He tried to be quiet, but his mom poked her head out of the kitchen. "Denton! I was starting to think you weren't going to make it." He smiled at her, but didn't say anything. He...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 13
"So," Denton started, "Was that first meeting the accident it looked like?" Stefan didn't reply immediately. "No, it wasn't. I'm sorry." "The sex, that was just you continuing to keep an eye on me?" "No. I had a different motive for...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 12
Martin hung up after listening to what his father said. "Where have you been hiding?" he asked Denton. "Hiding? What are you talking about?" "Detective, You don't have to keep up the act with us. You should have realized that we're like you...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 11
The rest of the day was spent cleaning up the apartment, and entertaining the friends that visited unannounced. Only one of them balked when he realized there were already three other guys there. It was six of them in the king size bed, by the time...
Finding the Line Draft 1 CH 10
Denton couldn't make it to the hotel until late morning. There he asked the staff and manager, showing the picture from the article, but no one remembered the cougar. The rest of the day had him and Alice deal with a car, stolen by someone who...