Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest: A Marvel Heroines Novel by Cath Lauria

Author:Cath Lauria [Lauria, Cath]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Marvel Heroines
Publisher: Aconyte
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven

“I need to get some gear from the alley up there, but after that I’m all yours,” I continued, then turned to look at Mihaela. “Don’t feel constrained to join us. You can go and get a hotel and wait for me to–”

“Absolutely not.” Her voice was swift and sure. “For all I know, you will get crushed by another building and leave me with no leads to follow.”

“I beg your pardon, but this building falling on us was entirely your fault,” I pointed out.

“No,” she said, “it was the fault of whoever put the explosives there in the first place.”

She had something with that, not that I was going to let her know I agreed with her about anything.

“And I am sorry for my part in it,” she added, “but right now you are my only chance at recovering my bloodstone shard. I can’t risk you getting hurt.” Or leaving me behind, the unspoken words went, but I read them as clear as day off her face, dusty as it was.

“Well, I guess you might not be completely useless,” Misty said, not exactly putting a shine on it – but then, that had never been her way. “Even if you are a tourist.”

“I wanted to be an actual tourist,” Mihaela said, a little mournfully. “Now I will never be able to come here without thinking ‘Boom, bang, crash!’ It’s going to ruin this place for me.”

“Not if you go hear the New York Philharmonic play the 1812 Overture,” I suggested.

She swatted me on the arm, which was utterly uncalled for. I was just trying to be nice! I refrained from swatting her back – I was apparently more mature than a woman in her sixties – and reached down to my shoes, snapping off both heels before I had a chance to regret it. “I’m going to have to go shopping before I leave this bloody town,” I muttered. Actually… “Give me a moment to place a call home and get my backup guns,” I said to Misty.

She heaved a sigh. “Fine, but hurry it up. I’ve probably already lost out on the snake-bear because I detoured to save your ass.”

“Yes, yes, keep flogging that dead horse until it turns into a zombie and tries to eat your face off.”

“Get my bag too,” Mihaela called out as I headed down the tunnel to the nearest manhole.

“Not your maid,” I called back.

I ended up getting it for her, though, because I was such a sucker. I arranged for Adam to overnight me a bag containing a few things I might be needing in the upcoming days, as well as some things I’d definitely be needing, like another pair of my custom boots. Then I grabbed my second-favorite shotgun out of my weapons bag and enough ammunition to take down an octo-puffer, a snake-bear, and whatever other deranged hybrids that villainous scientist had released into the wild. I gave Mihaela an adorable pair of pistols, handed over her bag, and we

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