“Pfah! What good’re cops in a town like this?” The old man waves dismissively. “Nah, Phantom’ll take care of things, same as he always does.”Dean pauses in fishing out his wallet. “Phantom? Who’s Phantom?”
Sometimes Vlad really hated his inability to say no to the people he cared about. They were fortunately a small number or he would be doomed. But when Maddie had called asking for a favor he had said yes before he even heard what it was.
In retrospect that had been less than wise.