Reliquary (Reliquary Series Book 1) by Sarah Fine

Author:Sarah Fine [Fine, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-13T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

We rode to the airport in one of Frank Brindle’s limos and flew to San Francisco on his private jet. Asa was silent throughout, but he also seemed less twitchy. Maybe now that he knew for sure what he needed to do, he was able to relax. Or maybe all that nervous energy had shifted to me. I could barely stay in my seat.

We’d found Ben. But now he was essentially a hostage, his life hanging in the balance, dependent on whether Asa and I could steal a valuable relic right from under the nose of the most powerful and dangerous man in Thailand. And on top of that, I was supposed to be convincing Asa to work for Frank so that Ben could have the healing magic he needed.

My fingertip slid over the slight indentation on my ring finger, now bare. I’d given my engagement ring to Ben for safekeeping. He swore when I returned that he’d get down on one knee and propose all over again. It had hurt to leave him, but it had only made me more determined to get him back, whole and healthy.

I rubbed the padded leather armrest of my cushy seat as we began to descend into the Bay Area. “I feel like a celebrity. Frank knows how to treat his employees, doesn’t he?”

Asa, who’d been staring out his window at the glowing lights at the edge of the ocean, leaned his head back against his seat. “That’s like saying a cat pampers the mice it catches.”

“I don’t think he’s planning to eat us.”

Asa pulled his gaze from the night sky and leveled it at me. “More like he’s playing before he bites our heads off.”

“Why would he do that? We can do stuff for him.”

“Sure,” he said faintly. “We’re useful. Just like Wendell was.”

“His magic sniffer who passed away? He seemed really sad about that.”

Asa rubbed his hands over his face. Dark circles lay beneath his eyes. “No doubt. Notice he didn’t mention how poor old Wendell died.”

“You think he had him killed?”

Very slowly, Asa raised two fingers to his temple, cocked his thumb, and pretended to blow his brains out. “Bet you everything I own.”

“But you don’t know for sure.”

Asa sighed, returning his attention to the view out the window. I eyed the taut lines of his shoulders and the sharp edge of his jaw, and then decided not to question him further. He obviously wasn’t eager to work for Frank, and I had a feeling if I talked up the job too much, Asa would be on to me in a second.

We arrived at the airport to find another car waiting, which took us to the Fairmont Hotel in a neighborhood called Nob Hill. I spent the ride reeling from the irony—I hadn’t done much traveling in my life, and already today I’d checked into two fancy hotels in two different states, flown on a private jet, and ridden in a few limos . . . but instead of sharing this experience with the love of my life, here I was with his surly brother.

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