Reborn: The Serendipitous Curse, Book One by Lisa Collicutt & Aiden James

Author:Lisa Collicutt & Aiden James [Collicutt, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Dark Fantasy
ISBN: 9781620072905
Amazon: B00E5LZUGO
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2013-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

The last thing I wanted to do that evening was leave my room at the motel. The temperature may have been a hundred degrees inside, with broken air conditioning, but my body and mind were both exhausted. I lay back on the pillow, with wet hair from the second shower that day, and waited for Justin’s knock.

As I stared up at a watermark on the ceiling, running over the day’s events in my head, he arrived, and he wasn’t alone. He’d brought a guy named Sean with him. The three of us took a bus downtown. Music played from Sean’s phone. People threw us annoyed glances. At one point, the bus driver asked him to turn the noise down, which only caused him to play it louder. Needless to say, I was relieved when that part of the journey ended.

Crowds of people littered the streets in this part of the city. Some, who Justin called hookers, sold their bodies. On both sides, signs flashed the names of clubs. Justin stopped in front of one place with a lit neon sign shaped like a fox above the open doors. Below the fox, in red lights, flashed The Fox Den.

Inside, the music was ten times louder than out on the street. My temples throbbed as we made our way through the crowd of dancers and into another room, a slightly less noisy area, filled with tables. The food odors made my mouth water, reminding me of how hungry I was.

Sean found us a table and sat, picking up three large plastic cards decorated with pictures of food and handing them to us. As I searched the list on mine, I also scanned the other tables to see what people ate.

I was concentrating on the menu when a soft-spoken girl came to take our order. I recognized the voice and lifted my head. Her face lit up when our gazes met. She pointed the end of her pen at me.

“I saw you on the bus this morning.” The lighting caught the jewel on her tooth when she smiled. “My name’s Nadine.”

“I’m… Shane.” I took something out of my shirt pocket and handed it to her. “You left this behind.”

“Oh, my shifts. Thanks.”

It was impossible to ignore Justin and Sean gawking at her, while she focused all her attention on me.

“I noticed you had a Savannah State University keychain,” I said, anxious to get the information I longed for.

“Oh, yeah.” She shifted from one high-heeled-foot to the other. “I’m taking some courses there.” She threw her gaze across the room. “This place is just a job to pay the student loan, you know?”

I smiled at her, knowingly. “I was wondering; do you know someone named Desiree McClinton?”

Her grin widened. “Yeah, I know Desi. We take a class together.” She cocked her head to one side, looking slightly confused. “Why?”

“She’s a friend of mine, and I’m looking for her.”

“Oh.” The small word oozed of disappointment. “She works at a coffee shop on College Street, right down past the university.

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