Demons and Druids - v4 by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fantasy
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Published: 2011-12-06T16:05:13+00:00

Chapter 45

SO I GUESS YOU’D CALL THIS a really bad emergency situation. A mind-and-body blower.

Right in front of me, hovering outside the rear window, was an indistinct shadow in the middle of the flames — like a face. The Dark Heart.

“License and registration, please.” I could just make out his malicious, self-satisfied grin.

I made a mental note that, if I ever got my driver’s license (and right now, the prospect didn’t seem very likely), I would never buy a Peugeot. Too many bad memories.

Like maybe I died in one?

I gripped Dana’s hand, but my face wouldn’t cooperate with my grand plan to show no fear. She knew, she had to know, that fire was like my kryptonite.

There was an incredible sense of heat on my skin, a heat I hadn’t felt since I was three years old and preparing to die for the first time.

“Is it hot in here, or is it just — me?” Dana whispered.

“Oh, it’s me,” interrupted Beta. “And in a moment you’ll know firsthand just how hot I can be.”

“Can we talk for a minute first, Beta?” Maybe I could buy just enough time to get Dana to disappear. And I had questions.

“About what? About how you seem to have a habit of hiding behind your friends? Using them as human shields? Ha! Daniel, you’re truly the most cowardly Alien Hunter I’ve ever met. You’d embarrass your father … were he alive today.”

“You didn’t know my father. Leave him out of this.”

“Didn’t know him? Alas, not true. Your parents had me over to dinner on their last day, in fact. They made some fine potpies, I must say. I fairly devoured them whole!”

If his manic ramblings hadn’t shell-shocked me, Beta’s evil peel of laughter would have. The flames roared louder than ever, and the car’s side mirrors were actually melting. The glass would be next.

And then … well, it didn’t take a Nobel Prize—winning physicist to figure out what would happen after the glass was gone.

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