Shattered: A YA Urban Fantasy Novel (Volume 4 of the Dark Reflections Books) by Dean Murray

Author:Dean Murray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fir'shan Publishing
Published: 2014-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Adriana Paige

Marauder's Gas Station

Central Wyoming

I stayed in the shooting range for a couple of minutes after Dominic left, but in the end the lure of the chocolate she'd handed me was just too strong. Finding out about my family's kidnapping had distracted me from the fact that I hadn't had anything to eat for something like eighteen or nineteen hours, but now that I had all of that brown goodness sitting in my hand demanding I eat it, my stomach wouldn't be denied.

I would have just eaten it in the shooting range but Taggart was emphatic about not eating in there. Apparently it was a good way to get lead poisoning, among other things. In the end my hunger was even stronger than my desire not to have to speak to anyone, so I left.

Taggart and Isaac met up with me just outside of the range and followed me back to the kitchen where I washed up.

"Do you want me to make you something to eat, Adri?"

"No, thank you, Isaac. I suspect that everyone else is past ready to eat though. Let's go back to my room and talk while the cooks get started on dinner. Dom brought me some goodies to tide me over until the food is ready."

Taggart didn't look happy about that, but for once I was going to ignore what I was supposed to be doing and just do what I wanted to do.

The guys followed me back to my room and then we grabbed the spare chair out of Taggart's room and all sat down.

"So what did you come up with?"

Taggart cleared his throat. "We called Alec a couple of minutes ago and found out that he and his people were largely successful in their mission. That's good because it means we can concentrate exclusively on getting your parents out of there, but bad because his people are likely going to spend the next few days trying to mop up what is left of the gang that abducted his person. Between that and the losses they took during the operation, they are going to be hard-pressed to offer us much support."

The walk back to my room had restored some of the numb detachment that Dominic had come so close to breaking through, but underneath all of that icy calm a tiny sliver of me was crushed by the fact that Alec hadn't called me yet.

It was like Isaac could read my mind. "Alec was a little sparse on details when it came to what happened in the fight, but he seemed like he was operating at less than full capacity. When we told him that your family was missing he wanted to call you right then, but we told him that it might be best to give you some time still."

The sliver of weakness, the shard of humanity that I hadn't quite managed to silence was turning cartwheels, but the rest of me knew I couldn't get on the phone with him. Alec would destroy my composure and I couldn't risk that, not yet.

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