Daizlei Academy Omnibus Collection by Kel Carpenter

Author:Kel Carpenter [Carpenter, Kel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 97

“I’m hungry,” Elizabeth complained as we pulled off the highway. Aaron took a right at the corner, pulling into a rundown gas station without a name. We’d been in the car for eight hours, and all eight of them had been blissfully silent. Until now.

“Didn’t I tell you not to speak unless spoken to?” I said as Aaron rolled to a stop and got out of the car.

“Oh, come on, Selena—”

“Why are you still speaking?”

“But—”

“Speaking.”

“But—”

I turned in my seat fast enough I thought she was going to get whiplash from the way her eyes darted between me and the girls on either side of her. With Alexandra to her left and Blair to her right, she was trapped with nowhere to escape and no one to save her.

“Do we need to play another game?” I asked, cocking my eyebrow. Her face went white at the same instant her stomach let out a loud growl. She swallowed hard, pressing her lips together, but didn’t say more. I turned around and settled back into my seat as Aaron came out of the station and began pumping gas.

“Is this the wrong time to say I’m hungry too?” Alexandra asked.

I groaned, leaning back in my seat. A food stop was not on my list of things to do. Not when we were traveling in the open and hadn’t bothered to ditch the cars that they’d used in their getaway from Daizlei. It was a stupid move, but Johanna insisted we’d be safer keeping them and getting to the meeting point as quickly as possible rather ditching them and stealing new ones. I hoped she was right.

“Blair?” I asked, a note of annoyance permeating my voice.

“I could eat.”

The driver’s side door opened and Aaron climbed back into the car. “I take it we’re getting food,” he said. Not exactly a question, so I chose not to answer as he pulled out for the McDonald’s across the street. The lot was empty apart from two cars as we went through the drive-thru. Aaron ordered six meals without asking what anyone wanted and pulled up to the window.

“That will be thirty-five dollars and sixty-four cents,” a girl with bright pink hair said.

Aaron handed her a fifty and winked. “Keep the change.”

“Thanks…” she trailed off, leaving her question open-ended.

“Aaron,” he supplied. Cotton-candy-head blushed like a virgin at the wrong end of an innuendo. In the back-seat, Alexandra said, “Like, can we get our food?”

She looked past Aaron and locked eyes with me. Her flirty smile faltered and without a word, she turned away from the window and produced our food. Aaron thanked her, and this time she just gave a tight-lipped nod as we pulled away from the window.

I didn’t say anything when a hamburger wrapped in yellow paper appeared on my lap, courtesy of the driver. I unwrapped it reluctantly, and ate with slow, deliberate bites as I ruminated on her odd reaction. It seemed a bit of a one eighty, even if she did think I was Aaron’s girlfriend.

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