Shadow Hunt (Disrupted Magic Book 3) by Melissa F. Olson

Author:Melissa F. Olson [Olson, Melissa F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503949102
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2018-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

I think Jesse was about to call his brother’s phone, but his cell rang first. Jesse answered it, listened for a few seconds, and snarled, “I’m not doing shit until I know he’s alive.” Then his face clouded over with worry, and when I leaned closer, I could hear moaning. I’d only met Jesse’s brother a few times, but even I recognized Noah’s voice. It was so much like Jesse’s.

A man’s voice came back on the line. Jesse listened for a moment longer, started to talk, and realized that whoever it was had hung up on him. He threw the phone forcefully onto the dash, where it bounced up and thunked against the windshield.

“Jesse—” I began.

But he got out of the car.

That in itself shocked me, because we were on a Los Angeles freeway, which is basically certain death. It wasn’t that crowded this early on a Saturday, but that actually made it scarier, because the cars were zooming past the driver’s door at eighty miles per hour, so fast they looked like part of a video game.

But Jesse miraculously made it around the front of the car, and stormed over to the guardrail, placing both hands on the barrier.

“What’s going on?” Owen said from the back seat. He sounded totally unnerved. I was right there with him.

“Stay here,” I told him, unbuckling. “Shadow, you too.”

She made a sound of protest, but I slipped out of the car quickly and walked over to Jesse. Slowly, I rested one hand on his shoulder.

I could feel his back muscles bunch up as he leaned backward without letting go, rattling the railing as hard as he could.

“I’m so fucking stupid,” he practically screamed. “I knew they were going through my brain, that they knew everything about my life, but it never occurred to me that—” His voice broke off, and he bowed his head, still clutching the railing.

“What do they want?” I yelled over the noise from the freeway.

Jesse finally let go and turned around, leaning his lower back against the railing. His eyes were red. “They want you,” he said simply. “They want me to trade your life for Noah’s.”

I raised my eyebrows. “They said that?”

Jesse wiped at his face with the back of his hand. “Of course not. Killian told me you wouldn’t be harmed, that they’re just going to lock you up for a couple of days while they conclude their business. But they’ve already tried to kill you three different times. I’m an idiot, but I’m not that dumb.”

“When do they want to do the trade?”

His eyes narrowed. “Scarlett—”

I held up a hand to say Bear with me. “When?”

“In an hour, at the caves in Griffith Park. They don’t want us to have enough time to call anyone. He said they set a humans-go-away perimeter spell by the Canyon Drive entrance. They’ll know when you break it, so we can’t sneak into the park and go around them. If they see anyone other than you and me, he’ll kill my brother.

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