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“Yeah, we’re definitely not that lucky,” I said, as the plane began taxiing toward the runway “It’s probably just going to be you,bad deets back to California in time Maybe his vampire friends will back us up, maybe not They barely know me, so I don’t knohy they’d put themselves in harm’s way to help rescue my mate”
Carter muttered, “Those are truly awful odds”
Chapter 8
The cross-country flight seeood time My only consolation was the fact that the demon would have to travel the sa to the hope that Elias was okay in the meantime
A li for us at LAX, and e climbed into the back of it, Carter said, “Desiree Keene, say hello to Mateo Figueroa”
Desiree was a cute, curvy Black woman who looked like she was in her early twenties, but since she was part witch, there was every chance she was h on her head, and she was dressed in a pink velour track suit and sneakers “Black Girl Magic” was spelled out in rhinestones on her purple T-shirt, which was very literal in her case
She looked up from her pink laptop On the back of it was a sticker of Disney’s Evil Queen, holding the Apple logo in one hand “You were a real pain in the ass to find,” she told me, as I took a seat across from her I liked her immediately
“Desiree spent the past threeme search LA for you,” Carter explained, as he sat beside me As the limo pulled away from the curb, he asked her, “Any news?”
She shook her head “I have people watching the private jet terminals here at LAX and the four nearest municipal airports, and they haven’t spotted the brothers’ plane Could be they’re flying into an outlying airport, but there are tooan eye on the brothers’ compound So far today, no one’s been in or out”
“We probably beat them here I don’t think they flew out of Belfast, or I would have seen their plane when I went to get the helicopter That must mean they had a bit of a drive to another airport, which would have slowed the, since tilanced at me, then said, “Stop that, or you won’t have a thumbnail left”
I forced edy nail and asked, “Can I use your phone again?”
When he handed it over, I placed yet another call to Griffin Like the six calls before it, this one went straight to voicemail I’d called Ari several times as well, with the same result I’d also called their hotel in Paris and had been told they’d checked out the day before I had no idea what that was about, but I really hoped to hear back from them soon
As I handed his phone back, I glanced out theand asked, “Where are we headed?”