Betrothed in Blood by Erin Madison

Author:Erin Madison [Madison, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thumbtack Publishing

Chapter 28

A blink later, Maia stumbled to the ground on top of Connor in the middle of a busy street.

“This isn’t my cabin by the lake.” Connor pushed Maia off of him and wrenched his baseball cap as far over his face as possible.

Everyone else got up slowly. The amulet seemed to have stopped mid-jump and forgotten to place them on the ground. Instead, it placed them a few inches over the ground before it released them. Everyone crashed to the sidewalk in one big pile.

“Where did it take us?” Connor yanked Janis off the ground by his collar.

“I don’t know. You were the one thinking.” Janis fought to get free of Connor and stumbled into Sam.

“At least we’re back in Talnor,” Sam said after he caught Janis. “We need to get off the street. Do we have any safe houses in”—Sam paused and looked around the street until he found a newspaper stand—“New York?”

“New York?” Taulia groaned. “At least we’re north-ish.”

“We have a safe house,” Connor said, dragging Maia to the large sidewalk. “Upstate. That’s where I was aiming. If we can get there—”

“Maia will blackout the city in a few hours by my calculations,” Taulia said, checking her watch. “Just don’t upset her.”

“Don’t upset me?” Maia said between clenched teeth. “I’m standing in the middle of the largest city on the continent in sparkling blue formal wear. And Connor”—she glared at him—“won’t let go of my hand.”

But Taulia was right. Maia could feel her body yearning to soak up the power in the city. The gold dust she’d eaten barely held it at bay for now, but she wasn’t even sure if she had hours before another catastrophic blackout.

Janis turned the bag over and not even a speck of gold dust shimmered in the lining.

“What can I do?” Maia broke out of Connor’s grip and rushed over to him. A cab waiting in traffic stalled right next to her. The driver got out and slammed his hands on the car, cussing. “The translocation amulet—how much gold dust will that give me?”

“Come on,” Janis begged. “It doesn’t have that much power, and I’m not even sure how you destroyed the Tablet of Truth.”

“Oh…” Maia relaxed her grip on Janis’s arm.

Connor hid behind Devin as the man got out of the car and as dozens of people passed them on the sidewalk.

“Why’s my phone turned off?” someone muttered as they passed Maia.

“I don’t think we have a few hours,” Maia said and refocused her attention on Janis. “What can I do?”

“Minthe will have some answers—Maia it’s your only hope. My father can—”

“Minthe will kill me,” she interrupted.

Connor edged closer to Maia and let his hand rest on her elbow. “We need to get you girls into different outfits.”

“No, we need to get out of the city,” Maia snapped, but it did feel nice to have him touching her again—the vacuum of power dissipated, and she could finally breathe again, but she’d never tell him.

“Finally,” the man in the broken-down cab shouted to the sky.

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