Force of the Falcon. Rita Herron
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Название: Force of the Falcon
Автор: Rita Herron
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные детективы
isbn: 9781408947678
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And eventually might trickle into the town’s water source and affect humans. A danger Brack didn’t want to face.
The vet nodded. “I’ll run full tox screens and let you know what I find.”
“Good. We need to solve this mystery ourselves before Cohen stirs up so much panic, the town goes on a wild bird hunt and destroys the wildlife.”
He thanked Priestly, then climbed into his SUV and cranked the engine. He wondered what the doctors had determined about Sonya, if they’d discovered anything on the blood or hair fibers on her skin.
He punched in the hospital’s number. It took a minute but the receptionist finally patched him through to Sonya’s doctor.
“It’s Brack Falcon, Doctor Waverman. I’m calling to check on Sonya Silverstein.”
“She’s fine. I’m preparing the paperwork for her release now.” He paused. “Although I wish she’d stay the night. She’s weak and needs rest, but she insists she wants to go home and be with her daughter.”
The mother bear protecting her cub.
“What did you find on those tests? Anything unusual?”
“I can’t discuss her medical records with you, Mr. Falcon.”
“I’m not asking about personal information. But if I’m going to find out what attacked her, I need to know if you discovered anything unusual. I’ll check with the CSI lab if I need to.”
Waverman muttered something beneath his breath. “There was something odd,” Waverman admitted in a low voice. “I haven’t told Sonya yet, but mixed with her blood, I found traces of another human’s blood. What’s even weirder, there were also traces of animal blood on her skin.”
Brack’s blood ran cold. “The blood of a bird?”
“That I don’t know yet. We’ll have to wait on more tests to verify the source.”
Damn, Cohen would have a fit.
An image of Sonya wounded and bleeding, lying in that snow the night before, flashed back, and Brack pressed the accelerator.
If Sonya’s attacker was part animal and part man, then they were dealing with a mutant creature of some sort.
But if it was human, the sicko might be afraid she would recognize him. Which meant that he might come after her again.
And she might still be in danger.
Chapter Six
The hint of danger tapped at Sonya’s nerves as the minutes ticked by. Alarm niggled at her at the thought of returning to her house. Even before the attack, the house had begun to creak and groan, the eerie sounds sending pinpoints of fear through her each night. In the darkness, she thought she’d heard a ghost whispering in the eaves of the wooden boards, and she imagined the dead that had gone before her walking underground and sending tremors through the earth that shook the walls and made the pictures on her nightstand rattle.
She shivered, and slipped off the hospital gown, wondering if she was going crazy. All this talk of ghosts in Tin City, and now of a mutant bird-man… Heaven help her. She had to have imagined the ghost sounds. And Katie had to have imagined the monster.
If her husband had any inclination to sue for custody and he caught wind that she suspected her house might be haunted, he’d have a good case to take her daughter from her.
But Stan wouldn’t do such a thing. He didn’t want her or Katie.
She swallowed back the hurt, then winced at the soreness in her limbs as she pulled on the sweats the nurse had brought her. Thankfully, the ER kept a stash of extra clothes in case of emergencies. At least the shapeless clothes were loose, warm and nonabrasive against her bandaged arms and back.
A knock sounded at the door just as she pulled on socks. “Come in.”
The door squeaked open, and Dr. Waverman poked his head in. Behind him, Brack Falcon appeared. Surprise made her chest flutter. He’d pulled his hair back into a ponytail with a leather thong, and his bronzed cheeks looked chafed from the wind. Beneath the hospital lights, the dark beard stubble grazing his jaw stood out, making him look impossibly formidable and rough, as if he might have been out fighting wild animals in the wilderness.
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