Black Hollow by Robbie Cox

Author:Robbie Cox [Cox]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sandy Shores Publishing

Chapter Fourteen

MEREDITH ENTERED THIRST Bar, immediately looking for Jackson. Only a few hours remained before she needed to give Lucifer an answer, and she still had no idea what to do. She spent a restless night, tossing and turning, but every plan required Jackson’s help, help he refused her. She would force him to help her, refusing him any other option but to help her. The only other choices she had were either trying to kidnap Seraphine or returning to Hell, and neither of those were options she even wanted to consider. First off, how in the hell did Lucifer expect her to kidnap Seraphine? Besides, don’t you kind of have to be dead to go to Hell? Seraphine was very much alive, had been for no one knows how long, and showed no signs of aging or slowing down. How do you kill someone who seemed immortal? And if she didn’t kill Seraphine, but rather took her to Lucifer alive, what would he do to the woman? He lived to punish evil-doers. Seraphine was anything but evil. What did he want with her?

Once inside the bar, Meredith took a moment to allow her eyes to adjust to the dim lighting before venturing inside any further. Piper stood behind the bar, refreshing the supplies from the Saturday night crowd, her long red hair pulled back in a tight ponytail. Meredith glanced around, looking for Jackson. The man always worked, deciding he had no other real purpose in life, so Meredith didn’t doubt that he was there. Somewhere. The question was where.

Giving up her search, she made her way over to the bar, leaning on it, hands clasped in front of her. “Where’s Jackson?” she asked without preamble.

Piper blinked her dark green eyes, her head tilted to the side as she gave Meredith a confused look. No one ever came into Thirst looking for Jackson. “That seems to be a repetitive question coming from you. Something wrong?”

“Slightly,” Meredith said with a burst of aggravation. “I need to talk to your boss. Where is he?”

Piper shrugged. “Not sure. During October, he tends to hide more than other months. He hates Halloween, you know. I’d wager he’s either on his way here or still holed up in his apartment.”

Meredith nodded as she shoved herself off the bar, turning, and heading for the front door again. She’d walk to his apartment and either catch up to him on his way to the bar or find him at home. Either way, she had to find him.

“You sure there’s nothing I can do to help?” Piper called after her.

“Not unless you have a few tricks up your sleeve,” Meredith said just before she shoved her way back out into the cool October morning.

Lucifer knew Meredith knew about Jackson’s tricks, even if she didn’t know the mechanics of them, how a drunkard duped him not just once, but twice. He would be expecting her to try the same tricks, if, that is, she could convince Jackson to share his secrets with her, secrets he had never revealed to anyone.

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