Kill Monsters, Get Rich 5 by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Absolutely not,” I said flatly.

I was both very surprised and not surprised at all that Pyrrha would have asked something like this. I’d had no idea she was this desperate, but really, when I thought about it, it made perfect sense.

She was scared. She’d lost her parents, and she was all Aidan had left. Honestly, if I’d been in her position with Carmen, I couldn’t say I wouldn’t have done the same. Carmen already told me in the past that I had a bit of an overprotective streak, which made sense, considering what our childhood was like. I could only imagine how much worse I would be if Carmen had been years younger than me, instead of a few minutes. If we’d had the same age gap as Pyrrha and Aidan, Carmen would’ve been Pyrrha’s age right now. Younger, even.

Pyrrha, despite her fear, or maybe because of it, glared up at me.

“You can’t tell me what to do,” she said as she jutted out her chin. “I’m an adult, and I can make my own choices. I want to help.”

“We’re still in charge of keeping you safe,” I retorted. “You’re under our protection, and I say it’s way too dangerous.”

“I have to agree, Pyrrha,” Kylah interjected in an apologetic tone. “It’s one thing to want to help with gathering information, but using yourself as bait? There are a million ways it could go wrong.”

“I’m willing to take that risk,” the girl said firmly. “You don’t think I know it’s dangerous? But what are my other options? Cower in a hole until they find me anyway? If we do that, we’ll just be unprepared and caught off guard. This way, we can be ready for them. We can get answers about who they’re working for and why they want Adi and me.”

Frustratingly, she made a good point. Just sitting around and waiting for another attack wouldn’t have been my first choice, either.

“We’re not just sitting around waiting, though,” I said to convince myself as much as Pyrrha.

“Leo’s right,” Asami agreed. “We’re trying to find information about what happened, we have connections in the supernatural world who can help.”

“What good are they, though?” the phoenix girl demanded, and a heart-wrenching desperation had entered her tone. “You already took us to Mr. Conleth, and neither he nor Carmen could find anything! You weren’t able to question any of the men who attacked us here, either. We’re blindly stumbling around in the dark, hoping we’ll knock into something useful!”

“Pyrrha, you’re a smart kid,” Artemis chimed in. She was probably the member of our group the young phoenix liked most, and because of that, she was probably the best candidate to try and talk some sense into the girl. “You know it’s not that simple.”

“It could be,” Pyrrha countered with her orange eyes flashing, and when she turned to look at Artemis, I could’ve sworn a lick of fire curled through the air from the end of her fade-dyed ponytail. “I’m ready, I’m willing, and I know what I’m offering.

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