Mutts Like Me (The Awakening Series Book 1) by Keri Armstrong

Author:Keri Armstrong [Armstrong, Keri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Highland Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It took some doing, but I managed to find him on the Internet, as well convince a guy to let me borrow his cell phone. Well, the flirting to get the phone took some doing, given the state I was in. Finding Laurent on the Internet had been easy. It helped that he owned a successful, upscale restaurant called Nightingales, as well as co-owned Midnight Ink, a tattoo and piercing shop. His name came up quickly when I Googled him.

I called both places and was turned down both times when I asked to speak to Laurent, but when I asked for Caleb, I got a hit at Midnight Ink. Whoever answered the phone had a slight accent and got a little cagey after I’d asked to speak to either Laurent or Caleb. He demanded to know who was calling and when I just said ‘Marti’, he barked, “Where are you?”

“Who are you?” was my brilliant comeback.

“Listen, Marti, wherever you are, stay alert. You are in danger,” he said.

Well, duh.

Since the guy who’d loaned me his phone was getting a little restless, I knew I had to wrap things up quickly.

“Do you know Toshio,” I asked.

“Yes, Marti, I know all of you. Be very careful of anything you say over the phone. The Awakened are everywhere. Just go to the place where you met Toshio and I’ll send someone for you.”

“But I don’t know where that is!”

“Yes, yes you do. Go there, then three blocks south. Hide somewhere and wait. You’ll know us when you see us.”

He’d hung up before I could get more information.

I handed back the phone to its rightful owner and gave him a short thanks before heading back out the door.

I hesitated on the sidewalk. The place where I met Toshi? I’d been unconscious when we got there…Oh, geez. Of course! The first place I met him was… more than twenty blocks away and nothing but rubble.

Damn it. I had to go back the way I’d come.

Man, what I wouldn’t give for some bus fare right now. I checked my other pockets quickly, hoping I’d strike gold, or at least silver, but no luck. I considered running back in the library and trying to borrow another phone, but time was wasting. At last I ducked in between a couple of buildings, shucked off my clothes, rolled them tightly in my jacket, then finally picked them up in my mouth as I tore down the street on four legs, hoping against hope that no animal patrol was about.

I’d nearly made it there in record time when I recalled he’d said three blocks south. I headed in that direction trying to stay out of sight between buildings and alleyways, grateful for winter’s early sunset. Not much further now.

Just as I was coming up on the designated area, four arms scooped me off the ground.

The next thing I knew, I was dropped, yelping, onto the ground in front of the fanged blond god (a.k.a. Jean-Marc Laurent) and another large man who liked a Marine.

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