Witch's Fury by Deborah Leblanc

Author:Deborah Leblanc [Leblanc, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-02-06T19:58:28+00:00

Chapter 13

The ferry seemed to move slower than ever before. Gilly grew so frustrated, she told Gavril she had to keep herself from jumping into the river and swimming to the other side. She felt she would have gotten there faster.

When they finally made it across the river to Algiers, Gavril parked the Camaro behind some brush and went hunting for Viv’s blue truck. Gilly was right behind him.

“It’s here,” Gilly said, her voice low and trembling. She pointed to a grove of oak and willow trees about two-hundred feet away. The look she gave Gavril tore a hole in his heart.

“If her truck is here,” Gilly said, “chances are she isn’t. Nikoli either. She would have taken it to the compound. If it’s still there, that means there’s a good chance she never made it here. She’d not stupid. Viv would have never tried going out that far on foot.”

“Nikoli either. I’m not ready to jump to conclusions, though,” Gavril said. “Both could have left the truck to keep from drawing attention to themselves and simply dodged in and around trees to get to the feeding area. Nikoli would have chosen that way for sure.”

Gavril jumped into the blue truck, and Gilly scrambled onto the bench seat beside him.

“Keys?” Gavril asked.

“Check the visor,” Gilly said. “She usually kept an extra set there.”

Gavril pulled down the driver’s side visor and a set of keys dropped into his lap. “Good call.”

With that, he shoved the key into the ignition, revved up the engine and drove as quickly as he could down a dirt path that sat beneath a huge canopy of large oak trees.

When they reached a fork in the road, Gilly pointed right. “That way.”

Gavril had to slow the truck down due to an overgrowth of trees. Their thick, long branches scraped, scratched and screeched against the roof of the truck. Dusk was setting in, and with the heavy foliage, which darkened things even more, he had a hard time staying in the center, on the dirt road.

He didn’t want to turn the truck lights on for fear of being noticed. Gilly had mentioned the ranch hands that lived on the south side of the compound and how she didn’t want to get them involved. If they noticed headlights bouncing around back here, one or more of them might be tempted to come out this way and make sure it wasn’t someone who shouldn’t be there.

They finally reached a clearing.

“Stop the truck here,” Gilly said. “The inside of the compound is worse than what we just drove through.”

“Crap.”

“There is no vehicle access in the compound. Viv used the truck only around the perimeter to maintain the fencing. If we’re going to go into those five-hundred acres, we’re going to have to walk it.”

“And leave you exposed to the Cartesians? No way,” Gavril said. “You know how I feel about that. Scabior or not.”

“Well, I guess you’d better charge the other scabior and let me hang on to it, because it’ll be the only chance I have if we run into any of those ugly bastards,” Gilly said.

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