Hell or High Water by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Published: 2016-07-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Waking up on the carpet in my hotel room, muscles sore and hip aching, was not a great start to what promised to be a long day. I gritted my teeth, rolled over and pushed to my feet. An itch brought my hand to my cheek, where I found a ragged sheaf of notebook paper adhered to my skin. Using the bathroom mirror to guide me in its removal, I flipped it over and read the information written in elegant script. The words pierced my grogginess and made my heart pound faster.

I sent Theo a text to meet me at the Waffle Iron, the restaurant we had scouted for breakfast, then changed into fresh clothes and ran my fingers through my hair. I grabbed my phone, wallet and the paper and headed across the street.

Turns out I hadn’t sent him a wakeup call. He was digging into a stack of pancakes when I shoved through the doors. I strolled right up to his table and slapped the scrap of paper down beside his plate before collapsing on the bench seat across from him.

“You’ve got a smudge.” He rubbed a finger under his eye. “Right there.”

“Doesn’t matter.” I stole his glass of water, tossing it back with one hand while the other tapped the note. “That’s my parents’ last-known address.”

“How did you get that?” The fork slid from his hand and clattered to his plate. “I’ve had people digging for days, and they all came up empty.”

His club connections must keep him plugged into the Gemini community, but we were few and far between. There was a whole supernatural world out there, and sometimes it took organizations like the conclave, with their questionable morals, to deliver. That didn’t mean I had to like it.

“I had a visitor last night.” I gave him a quick rundown of my night, from Fionn’s arrival to waking this morning sprawled across the carpet where he’d left me.

Theo listened, fingers drumming the table, reminding me so much of Isaac when the urge to run struck him it hurt. He barely waited for me to finish before he shot his hand in the air and called, “Check.”

We paid and exited before my stomach got a chance to rumble at the scent of the bacon I didn’t get the chance to eat.

Theo programmed the address into his phone’s GPS app then passed the note to me for safekeeping. I clutched it until the paper crumpled, but I couldn’t let go. This was it. I was about to see the place my parents had called home. I was about to see their new life firsthand, and I wasn’t sure if I hoped things looked the same as I remembered or if different would be simpler. Like if they had cut ties to everything it might be easier for me to stomach instead of life going on as usual for them, except without me in it.

The drive passed in quiet except for the robotic directions voiced at regular intervals.

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