Night Magic by Jenna Black

Author:Jenna Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

I spent a lot of time feeling like total crap, not without good reason. But even when you’re living this totally bizarre life, spending every night huddled in a different hotel room jumping at every shadow, you start to develop a kind of routine and it becomes your current definition of normal. Many of the city’s schools had reopened, although on limited hours, but Dr. Gilliam didn’t seem inclined to push either Luke or me into going back to school. It might have added a degree of semi-normalcy to our lives, but it might have added predictability, too, and that was something we couldn’t afford. Aleric and his people might not be able to get to us during the day, but they were perfectly capable of forcing ordinary people to do their dirty work for them. The routine became, then, to have as little routine as possible.

I was always worried about Dr. Gilliam, because she had to go to work at the hospital, and the bad guys could easily know that. The only consolation was that she wasn’t an idiot, and she was serious about taking precautions. I still let out a breath of relief every time she made it back from a shift safely.

I didn’t hear from my mom, but I knew from checking on the Internet that she had not abandoned her quest to get in past the quarantine. She was pissed at me and hurt by the things I had said, but she hadn’t changed her mind about coming to get me. I talked to my sister Beth a couple of times, but it seemed Mom had quoted our entire argument to her verbatim, and she was pretty pissed at me as well. She and Mom had always been more alike than not.

I wasn’t under the impression that Aleric had given up on me, but I have to admit I had relaxed my guard just a little bit when New Year’s came and went without any sign that he was homing in on us. The idea that I would live the rest of my life in hiding, constantly on the move, was hardly appealing, but considering all the other unpalatable changes that had happened in my life, it was something I could live with.

Everything seemed to be going about as well as could be expected, which was why it came as quite a shock when in the second week of January, there was a knock on our hotel room door at just after noon. Dr. Gilliam was at work, and Luke had headed down to the hotel’s gym to get a workout in, so I was the one who had to answer the door.

I assumed it was housekeeping at first, but then realized that housekeeping would usually announce itself. Bob wasn’t quite as territorial now that his territory changed every night, but he could still muster a seriously intimidating bark. However, he wasn’t in full Hellhound mode, and I noticed as I went to the door

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