Squad Goals by Kate Karyus Quinn & Demitria Lunetta & Marley Lynn

Author:Kate Karyus Quinn & Demitria Lunetta & Marley Lynn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Little Fish Publishing
Published: 2020-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

15

Stupidly, it isn’t until we’re in front of the portal at the end of a long dirt road that I realize we have a problem.

We need to go through the portal. Hermes’ club is in Southern Florida. We are currently in Upstate New York. We also need the van. With our wanted status we can’t be walking around in a pack or hailing a cab.

Needing some guidance, I turn to the passenger seat where Shauna smiles back at me. She insisted on having shotgun because she gets carsick. I expected Tina to make a stink, but she just shrugged and said, “The front seat is for servants.” Then she climbed in the back.

Now from behind me, Tina hollers, “What’s the hold up?”

“We can’t take the van through the portal. Mechanicals and magic don’t mix,” I remind her.

This is so basic it was in our new student papers for MOA. No cell phones. No GPS. No computers or gaming systems, it said on the packing list.

Tina stares back at me and I can tell this problem did not occur to her either. “Well shit.”

“Yeah.”

“Hello,” Tamika waves a hand from the back of the van. “Maybe consult the witch when you have a magical problem, instead of the vampire who doesn’t know anything that doesn’t involve strength and blood and death.”

Tina’s eyes narrow and she gives Tamika an evil smile. “And pain,” she says. “Don’t forget pain.”

“Yes, there will be some pain,” Tamika agrees. “But we’ll share it.” Whipping out her stiletto blade, she looks to me. “Pop the hood, but keep the engine running. We’re going to trick the portal into thinking the van is alive.”

“This sounds like a terrible plan,” Tina says aloud to no one, but she follows Tamika out of the van along with the rest of us.

“I feel like I’m working for the Red Cross with all the blood donation,” Mac gripes as Tamika cuts him in the same spot where he was tapped the other day for Shauna’s bloody dinner.

“I’m feeling a bit of a slacker,” Trevor’s voice comes from where he floats above watching as one after another we let our blood drip onto the van’s warm engine. “Tami, dear, you don’t know any spells to restore a bloke’s body, do you?”

I slam down the van’s hood, leaving a bloody handprint behind. “Nobody is getting their body restored. Everyone back in the van so we can find out if this works or not.”

Behind the wheel once more, I lightly press the gas, nudging us to the lip of the portal. Rolling down the window, I toss in the key, watching as the fountain in front of us (with a naked Hermes, as always, at its center) lights up.

“Here goes nothing,” I say. “Hold on tight.”

I floor it. With a jolt we bounce over the lip of the fountain and then into the portal.

The cold hits me like a bucket of cold water poured into my soul.

The van is gone. And everyone in it too. There’s just the cold and a blackness that goes on forever.

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