Page 9 of Nazab

“Speaking of Lachial’s spawn,” Xan said and opened another file named ‘Jazmine’. “Guess who was watching Rahab at the beginning of his latest murder spree?”

This time, there was only one new video in the file. They saw the shadow wielder climbing the fire escape of a building near where Rahab had killed the first group of militants. The next footage was of her climbing back down and fleeing from the area.

“How the hell did you program the cameras to film specific people, girl?” Tor asked, shaking her head in bafflement.

“I could explain it to you, but you just wouldn’t get it,” Xan said. This time, no one laughed at her ongoing joke. They were all still too sickened by what they’d just witnessed.

Jazmine had an uncanny knack of avoiding the cameras she had no way of knowing were watching her when she went out at night. Shadows hid her from view most of the time and she was never gone for long. They’d seen footage of her returning home moments before Lachial arrived to check up on her dozens of times by now.

“Queegly is on his way here,” Amaros said, picking up on the human hurrying towards them. Ramiel teleported to the lake, then returned with the Mad Prophet a moment later.

“Are you okay, Queeg?” Qiana asked, seeing how pale the Texan’s face was.

“Not really,” the oracle said as he took his cowboy hat off. He normally hung it on a hook in the hallway near the back door, but hadn’t been given the chance to this time. “I saw a vision of what Rahab got up to while I was sleeping,” he said with a grimace. “Was it as bad as it looked?”

“It was worse,” Zo said morosely. Little Arak and Nova were asleep in their cribs. It was a wonder they’d slept through their parents’ unease. “My father has completely lost his mind,” their matriarch said.

“He managed to regather his wits when it was all over,” Caterina said as Ram slid his arm around her again. She put her hand on his chest, glad her mate was with her again after retrieving the Mad Prophet.

“I don’t want anyone to tell GG or Dalton about this,” Wynter requested. Everyone agreed, knowing how disturbed the couple would be. It was obvious Rahab was obsessed with GG. He was never going to let go of his grudge with her.

“Where’s the littlest cambion?” Queegly asked, peering around and not seeing Grace anywhere.

“I didn’t want her to see the footage,” Amaros said. “She went to her room,” he explained.

“She’ll probably want to see the next video Xanthia is about to open,” Queeg predicted.

“I’ll get her,” Cam offered, then teleported to the south wing. He returned with Grace and Angel a few seconds later.

“I could have walked,” Grace said with an eyeroll. Her favorite knight held her in his arms like she was a baby and reluctantly put her down.

Angel seemed to know this wasn’t a good time to scream for food as she draped herself over the teen’s shoulder.

“Here we go,” Xanthia said, opening a file with Phul’s name on it. Vic’s sire stood at the beginning of a cul-de-sac with sixteen of his colleagues.

“That’s Nazab!” Braqel exclaimed when they saw a hulking man wearing only a towel. He stood at the far end of the cul-de-sac with a female in his arms. Xan paused the video so they could study the couple.

“He looks big,” Ree mused, comparing the newest knight to her mate.

“Nazab’s an inch taller than Ezequiel,” Urzra said. “But he’s not the tallest brother in our squad.”

“Who’s the tallest?” Grace asked curiously.

“You’ll find out when the rest of our squad arrives,” Urz teased her and she rolled her eyes.

“I didn’t receive a vision that a new knight had arrived last night,” Zoe said.

“Neither did I until I was on my way here, mama bear,” her fellow mystic told her. He knew Zoe felt like she’d been left out every time his visions gave him more detail than she received.

“I fell asleep while reading and missed his comet arriving,” Grace said with a scowl.

“He’s already met his mate,” Sinai said. “It’s a good sign that he’s already so protective of her.”

“Is she hurt?” Caterina asked in concern. Nazab was holding the female and they were facing a bunch of soldiers. Phul was among them, which was why this footage had been captured on camera.

“Let’s watch and see what happens,” Xanthia said, then clicked the play button.

“Holy crap!” Vic exclaimed when they watched the short video. “Did you see how fast he moved?”