Chapter 3
It was two weeks before Burke saw Reynaud again. He’d had a bad day because part of the game he was designing was giving him fits. Despite going over the coding three times, he couldn’t find where the problem was. Giving up in disgust, trusting it would hit him when he returned to work on Monday, he started his usual Friday night hunt in the Quarter. He honestly hoped he’d find a vampire in the midst of feeding on a victim. It might relieve some of his stress to take the creature out.
By midnight, he was ready to call it a night. He was almost to his car when he decided he felt like a beer. One beer, then head home. Leaving his gun locked in the trunk of the car, he headed back and to the club on Dauphine. He got his beer before going upstairs to the balcony. Two men had just g
