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at the hospital and immediately sent the message. Perhaps delivering another vampire baby reminded Sulie of her loneliness. Of course, a vampire man was needed for giving her children. A human man’s sperm couldn’t penetrate a vampire’s egg, even though vampire men had children with human women all the time.
Dixon had not known of the Vampire Council’s barbaric marriage arrangements, but for a busy doctor who didn’t date, it made sense that Sulie would go down that route. He shuddered at the thought. How anyone could just blindly go into a marriage like that was beyond him. He had walked down the aisle a few times himself, but at least he had known the woman, not that they didn’t turn into control freaks who wanted to change him afterward.
Sterling shook his head. “Another set of rounds has begun. No one you spoke with was working late last night, Alex.”
“Check with off duty personnel, Alex. Anyone who worked on staff last night,” Raymond suggested. When they heard Alex hang up, he hung up the conference room phone on their end.
Dixon took a deep breath and let the air out slowly. Finally, an idea struck him. “Babies are born all the time in cars. Maybe the family didn’t get to the hospital in time. The baby would have been admitted as a patient, not a live birth from a doctor at the hospital.”
Raymond’s eyebrow rose and Ben reconnected with the hospital’s records. After some clicks on the keyboard, Ben announced, “No infants are registered under the age of one when she disappeared.” He then added, “There were also no stillbirths.”
“Damn it!” Dixon’s fist slammed into the table. “Her car is in the parking garage. We know she came here at some point. What about video from the garage that may show her walking into an elevator or something?”
“It will take me a while to stream the video feeds,” Ben said.
Something nagged at Dixon about the timeline. Sulie had been slinging back scotches long before the birth of the baby yesterday. Something else triggered these events.
Chapter Ten
Dixon tapped his foot repeatedly as he sat in the hospital conference room waiting for the video feed. He wondered what Sulie was going through that she couldn’t share her pain with him.
“I got the video feed from the parking garage.” Ben pulled up the video from the hospital database and displayed the footage on the large screen in the conference room. “Her car is parked on floor four.” He typed some more, “… and the videos are split into eight–hour segments. This one is from 12:00 pm–8:00 pm last night.”
Dixon watched as Ben sped up the time index to where Sulie’s Porsche pulled into her parking spot. The video showed her parking the car and pausing inside the vehicle. Dixon realized she had spent a moment in the car to text Raymond about the arranged marriage. She then had exited the car and answered her phone — which must have been the mysterious phone call from the burner phone.
Watching Sulie run towards the stairs, Ben switched the video feeds to each of the floors, one by one, and watched at the correct time index to see her. Once he had pulled up the ground floor, they found her once again as she ran towards a van.
The team sat glued to the video as the man standing outside the van looked panicked. Sulie rushed past him and entered the van where a pregnant woman sat. Dixon’s eyes widened. The sounds of gasps from around the table became eerily audible as the team saw the man close the van door, trapping Sulie inside. The camera caught the van shake violently and Dixon could make out Sulie’s face as she had been slammed into the side window, with blood pouring down her forehead.
Next, the video showed the van stop shaking and settle down. Dixon heard his own voice shout the word “No,” but it sounded surreal to him. He felt the pit of his stomach launch upward and settle in his throat. Looking to the vampires, he noticed their widened eyes and
Dixon had not known of the Vampire Council’s barbaric marriage arrangements, but for a busy doctor who didn’t date, it made sense that Sulie would go down that route. He shuddered at the thought. How anyone could just blindly go into a marriage like that was beyond him. He had walked down the aisle a few times himself, but at least he had known the woman, not that they didn’t turn into control freaks who wanted to change him afterward.
Sterling shook his head. “Another set of rounds has begun. No one you spoke with was working late last night, Alex.”
“Check with off duty personnel, Alex. Anyone who worked on staff last night,” Raymond suggested. When they heard Alex hang up, he hung up the conference room phone on their end.
Dixon took a deep breath and let the air out slowly. Finally, an idea struck him. “Babies are born all the time in cars. Maybe the family didn’t get to the hospital in time. The baby would have been admitted as a patient, not a live birth from a doctor at the hospital.”
Raymond’s eyebrow rose and Ben reconnected with the hospital’s records. After some clicks on the keyboard, Ben announced, “No infants are registered under the age of one when she disappeared.” He then added, “There were also no stillbirths.”
“Damn it!” Dixon’s fist slammed into the table. “Her car is in the parking garage. We know she came here at some point. What about video from the garage that may show her walking into an elevator or something?”
“It will take me a while to stream the video feeds,” Ben said.
Something nagged at Dixon about the timeline. Sulie had been slinging back scotches long before the birth of the baby yesterday. Something else triggered these events.
Chapter Ten
Dixon tapped his foot repeatedly as he sat in the hospital conference room waiting for the video feed. He wondered what Sulie was going through that she couldn’t share her pain with him.
“I got the video feed from the parking garage.” Ben pulled up the video from the hospital database and displayed the footage on the large screen in the conference room. “Her car is parked on floor four.” He typed some more, “… and the videos are split into eight–hour segments. This one is from 12:00 pm–8:00 pm last night.”
Dixon watched as Ben sped up the time index to where Sulie’s Porsche pulled into her parking spot. The video showed her parking the car and pausing inside the vehicle. Dixon realized she had spent a moment in the car to text Raymond about the arranged marriage. She then had exited the car and answered her phone — which must have been the mysterious phone call from the burner phone.
Watching Sulie run towards the stairs, Ben switched the video feeds to each of the floors, one by one, and watched at the correct time index to see her. Once he had pulled up the ground floor, they found her once again as she ran towards a van.
The team sat glued to the video as the man standing outside the van looked panicked. Sulie rushed past him and entered the van where a pregnant woman sat. Dixon’s eyes widened. The sounds of gasps from around the table became eerily audible as the team saw the man close the van door, trapping Sulie inside. The camera caught the van shake violently and Dixon could make out Sulie’s face as she had been slammed into the side window, with blood pouring down her forehead.
Next, the video showed the van stop shaking and settle down. Dixon heard his own voice shout the word “No,” but it sounded surreal to him. He felt the pit of his stomach launch upward and settle in his throat. Looking to the vampires, he noticed their widened eyes and
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