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invisible to even
gods.
    It seemed at first too large of a
coincidence for him to find her necklace at a site where his vamps
had been attacked by a Natural. Xander and Jessi lived close to San
Diego. It wasn’t out of the question Ashley was nearby.
    But a fighter ? He remembered Ashley as a
sweet, innocent seventeen-year-old with a penchant for beading who
hadn’t known how to punch let alone defeat seasoned vamps. She had
been beautiful and delicate. Nothing about her was tough enough to
survive the brutal training necessary to become a
warrior.
    Jonny stared at the necklace, willing it to
reveal its owner and disappointed when it didn’t.
    It could be anyone’s even if it seemed too
coincidental to have stumbled upon it at this time and place. And
if it were Ashley’s, he had a huge problem named Xander standing
between him and the woman who might have the talisman hidden in the
bulky case of a cell phone.
    He took out his phone to
text Charles. After your op, we need to
track that phone. He pushed send. A vamp
from a different era, Charles wasn’t yet comfortable with modern
technology. Jonny had found the Black God’s enterprise to be
woefully short of advancement in that area, and he’d been slowly
bringing in tech savvy vamps and new equipment to enable them to
work smarter.
    After the rebellion, he’d GPS tagged every
cell phone issued to a vamp, though the computer that was supposed
to be monitoring them had been crushed in the rebellion. He’d been
waiting for it to be rebuilt.
    “Coño! I’m tired of living in the nineties,” he muttered and rose. He
gazed at the charm on the necklace for another long minute then
placed it in his pocket.
    If Ashley were involved, his life was about
to get even more complicated. He returned to the boardwalk,
debating whether to approach Xander or wait until he had
confirmation either way.
    Or … there was a third option.
    His phone vibrated and he checked it to find
the text from Charles.
    Computer online. Starting op. Radio
silence.
    Jonny smiled, pleased for the first time in
too long at having a quick result to at least one of his issues. He
clicked the link Charles had sent and watched his phone install a
new app. It popped open to reveal a map of the country dotted with
the locations of all his vamps. One in San Diego was red.
    “About time,” he said. He zoomed into the
red dot. His location popped up as a black dot. “So close.” He
frowned. A small part of him had hoped the phone was outside of San
Diego.
    He began walking towards the area indicated.
Normally, he’d Travel there, but if Ashley was involved, he wasn’t
about to stumble into one of Xander’s wards by accident.
    Senses alert, he walked to the train station
and rode through the city for nearly forty minutes before reaching
the University district. On a Friday night, the dorms, local bars
and hangouts, and surrounding apartment buildings were lit up and
loud. Music thumped from several different locations, and the
streets were crowded.
    He walked among the college students,
straining to sense any Natural or ward before he reached it. A
couple of redheads caught his attention, and he watched them duck
into a bar. His stomach growled but he chose to continue, needing
to locate the talisman.
    Reaching the apartment building where the
red dot originated, Jonny waited for a group of students to file
out of the door and slipped in before they could close it.
    He had yet to trip any wards, but he didn’t
feel the presence of any Naturals, either. Puzzled and wary, he
followed the tracker chip to the fifth floor and down a wing
overlooking a back street rather than the busy strip in front of
the building.
    No wards. No Naturals. It was possible the
vigilante had gone out for the night and left the phone in his
apartment without knowing its value. Charles seemed to think this
guy didn’t have a clue what he was doing, aside from beating up
vamps he crossed.
    Jonny sensed no one inside, either.