Twisted Elements: Twisted Magic Book Two by Rainy Kaye

Author:Rainy Kaye [Kaye, Rainy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-08T22:00:00+00:00

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As I followed the woman to the restaurant right off the lobby, I peered at the corners, the furniture, and up to the ceiling. What sort of monster had taken up residency in here? Every time I mustered up the will to ask, I couldn’t quite get the words out, as if just speaking about it would encourage the monster to answer the question itself.

I wasn’t ready to tackle the beast, and I never really would be, but I already knew where this scenario was headed. We were going to have to find a way out, and the situation was going to get ugly. Par for the course these days.

But first, food.

Inside the restaurant, the woman gestured toward a long, padded bench by the window, with three tables and chairs in front of it. I wove through the empty restaurant and took a seat on the bench and stared out.

Randall sat across from me, in a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, hands propping up his head. “What do you think it is?”

I shook my head, muscles tense and jaw clenched. My brain hadn’t received nearly enough downtime earlier to be prepared for this turn of events.

Fighting another monster was bad enough. Even worse, we had somehow managed to find ourselves completely barred from getting to Fiona.

Despair threatened to rip me apart, and only by sheer will did I keep myself together. For now.

The clattering and banging of pots and pans issued from in front of us, past the empty buffet that separated the dining area from the open kitchen. The woman and her cohorts shuffled around, opening cans and gathering spices as they continued to prepare food that had already been started.

I couldn’t speak. I clenched my hands on my lap and tried not to think about anything. My body shook, anyway.

Randall reached across the table and squeezed my shoulder.

“We’ll get out of here,” he said, evenly, and then chuckled. “We keep defying the odds, and we’re going to do it again. It’s what we do.”

I pressed my lips together, staring down at the table, but my mind flipped through the events of the last few days until it was a blur.

Inside my head prickled, and I blinked back tears as the woman approached, holding a tray with two white plates. Swallowing down my emotions, I straightened in my seat, watching as she placed the tray on the table between us, revealing a dish that looked a bit like chili.

“Rajma,” she said. “It’ll fill you up and help you sleep.”

I started, jerking around to look up at her with a scowl.

“What?” she asked. “Do you not think you will need to rest?”

“There’s a monster in the hotel,” I said in a low voice, glancing around, as if I might have summoned it.

“And it will be here still when you awake.” With a curt smile, she turned and sauntered off as the man approached, carrying a plate of naan.

The man sat the plate on the table next to us.

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