Pawn (Fae Games Book 1) by Karen Lynch

Author:Karen Lynch [Lynch, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tempest Press
Published: 2020-05-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 11

My hands shook as I hit the button to call her number. It went straight to voice mail. No!

“Jesse, what’s wrong? Who was that?” Violet asked.

“My mom.”

“What?” Violet jumped up and came over to look at my phone. “Oh, my God! What do we do?”

“I-I don’t know. It’s going to voice mail again.”

“If her GPS is on, you can track the phone,” Violet said.

I stared at her. Track the phone. I could track the phone. “God, I’m so stupid.”

I took off for the office. Why hadn’t I thought to do that when they went missing? My parents always kept their GPS on, and even if the phone was turned off, it would show the GPS location of the last call. I’d thought Mom had butt-dialed me, but what if she had been letting me know how to find them – and I’d failed her?

The computer already had an app installed for tracking all the phones in a household, and Mom had put each of our numbers in there. I clicked on hers and hit the “Find” button, and a few seconds later, a map appeared with a phone icon on it. I clicked the icon, and it displayed a message telling me the phone appeared to be off but that this was the location of the last call, three minutes ago.

My heart pounded as I read the Bronx address. My mother could be there right now, waiting for me to come find her. I would not fail her a second time.

I entered the address into the GPS app on my phone and turned to Violet. “I have to check this out. Will you come with me?”

“You don’t even have to ask.” She looked at the shelves of gear in anticipation. “Are we going to load up on weapons first?”

I rummaged through one of the bins and handed her a taser, the kind that shoots out the prongs. “Here, take this. And keep the safety on unless you have to use it.”

I was afraid to let her handle any of the bigger weapons. The most dangerous thing I’d ever seen her wield was a hammer in the school theater, and she’d nearly brained the drama teacher while working on a prop.

“Roger that.” She pointed the taser at an imaginary target and pretended to shoot. “What about radios? Do we need those?”

“No, because we are not splitting up,” I said firmly as we went back to the living room to grab our coats. I saw the mess of glass and soda in the kitchen, but there was no time to clean it up. Every second counted.

“Finch, I’ll be back soon. I promise,” I called as I sped out the door. Guilt weighed down on me for leaving him alone again so soon, but he’d heard the call and knew what it meant.

“Are you sure you want to come with me?” I asked Violet as we climbed into the Jeep. “It could be dangerous.”

She snapped her seat belt and grinned at me. “Are you kidding? This is all so cloak and dagger.

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