Changing the World: Hypernaturals 9

Peter Delong, the owner of a series of food trucks is killed. His wife Bianca is arrested for murder. Don Sagan calls Morgan for help on the case. Adrian and Morgan decide it is time to let Don in on the poly side of their life with Helen and Jessica, if not the Vampire 'first family' reasons for it.The case is against Don's clients is lousy and the arresting officer is well known on the force as a problem. As Morgan and Adrian do the interviews the arresting officer should have done, they find that while it was a murder, there is no obvious reason why. No motive. Whoever did it did not care whom they killed.As the Vampire detectives dig into the case, Adrian asks Angel for permission to reveal two massive secrets to his daughter Nakoma. One secret being what he is, and the second being what he did to protect her (Bad Choices).The digging in the case ultimately leads to the motive, a secret the government did not know it had and absolutely wants to keep, and Adrian slowly dying as even a Vampire can only take so much damage before it is fatal. Morgan can't let that happen, and chooses to die with him rather than lose him, leaving Jessica and Helen facing losing two of their spouses at once.Includes the short story 'Vampires from Tulsa', Denise has never been a fan of killing male Vampires that do not pass probation. After meeting the Vampires from Tulsa, she takes a stand on it.