Running Wilde: Immortal Vegas, Book 9 by Jenn Stark

Author:Jenn Stark [Stark, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Elewyn Publishing
Published: 2017-12-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

I didn’t have any choice in the matter, as I saw it. I flung my hands out a second time, but this time, I imagined the burst of power I freed causing the newcomers merely to lose consciousness—no one got burned, no one was hurt.

And just like that, it happened. The entire group dropped to the floor, simply because I willed it so.

Ginny collapsed as well.

I yanked Nigel up, making sure he was steady on his feet before I pushed him toward Ginny. “We need to get her to a hospital, and then out of here. We’ve got Swords in the city?”

“Plenty of them,” he agreed, blinking woozily as he took a step forward. I pulled his arm over my shoulder, grimacing as I took his weight. He wasn’t as steady as I wanted him to be, but he also felt lighter than he should. No doubt I was spiking an extreme adrenaline high.

“Call—I’ll call,” Nigel said.

“We need to get to the car.”

“Not the car.” He shook his head, shrugging me off after another few steps. “Someone’s got to have seen that. We need different wheels.”

I scowled to him as we exited the room, trying to ignore the bodies of fallen teens and young adults. Some of the kids couldn’t have been more than fourteen, I thought. They were mostly young men, and I hesitated, performing a quick search while Nigel fumbled with his phone. There were four young women with the group, but none of them were blonde. I located the oldest of the group, an Asian male in his midtwenties, from his ID in his pocket, with an address in Kyoto. I scowled down at him. I was only twenty-seven years old…this guy was nearly my age. What was he doing caught up in a video game? Was he a player, or something more?

My search of the man had been brief, but productive. His name was apparently Lin Wei, and he hailed from Kyoto, but he also carried a business card next in his wallet that had only an address typed on it…and a very local address at that. Unless I missed my guess, it was right down this same street of commercial buildings. But what would that be, some sort of mailbox location? Were all these people off the grid?

There was a key card too. I took that, then put the rest back.

As I stood, Nigel was speaking Japanese into his phone, his color stronger now.

He pocketed the device as I reached him. “We’ve got cleanup coming in. They’ll take the lot of them, the truck driver too. We’re lucky this went down when it did, or this place would be crawling with police.”

“And Ginny?”

“Same. She’ll be questioned and released, followed, but our focus will be on the kids. We’ll figure out why they were here and why they knew your name.”

“I can already guess part of that,” I said grimly. “Simon clearly put me in his stupid Mongol Horde game. Probably as a joke, but people apparently have taken notice.

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