That was a good solid cop non-answer, and she hid her smile at it. Russell knew when to keep his mouth shut. It was an important tool for a cop. Too bad that cop back in Paris hadn't been able to do that or he wouldn't have needed to end up in Section. She'd handled that badly, she knew, but part of it was definitely due to him not backing off when he had to know he should.

"See, I had a perfectly normal life," she replied. "No vampires or weird stuff at all. And then I get here and my insurance policy has an ice bees rider."

Perfectly normal life was about as far away from the truth as it was possible to get in most ways, but in terms of vampires, it was true.