Nolander by Becca Mills

Author:Becca Mills [Mills, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, contemporary fantasy, fantasy series, dark fantasy, paranormal, magic, hard fantasy, science fantasy, action, adventure, dragons, monsters, deities, gods, demons, female protagonist, female main character, dying earth, alternative history, parallel world, speculative fiction, fiction
Publisher: Becca Mills
Published: 2012-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

The wheel vibrated in my hands. The temperature gauge was near the red. I’d been going between eighty and ninety for six hours. Even so, Zion kept surging ahead and then slowing down when we dropped too far behind. I was afraid the Le Mans wouldn’t last much longer — if it had ever been built to go this fast, it wasn’t up to it now.

I wished Graham were still in my car. I had some questions I wanted answered. No way was I asking Williams.

As though he could hear me thinking about him, he turned from the window and leaned over toward me. My heart rate sped up, and I shrank away. He looked at the dashboard in front of me, then sat back. I relaxed.

I wish I weren’t so scared of him, some part of my brain said.

I wish he weren’t so scary, the other part answered.

Good point — it wasn’t like I was being unreasonably wussy. He was genuinely terrifying.

He got out his phone and placed a call. Up ahead of us, I saw Zion bring her phone to her ear.

“Get off at the next rest stop,” he said, then hung up.

We were somewhere in western Ohio. A rest area came up in about fifteen miles. Zion exited and parked at the very edge of the lot. I pulled in beside her. She and Williams both opened their windows. Hers glided down smoothly. His squeaked as he cranked it open in fits and starts.

“Go get another vehicle,” he said to Graham.

Graham got out. He looked a little pale. It had taken us almost fifty minutes to get back to the car with the deer in tow. Maybe he was feeling the strain of having helped power that strong a shield for that long. He walked slowly across the parking lot toward the building.

I saw with a pang that this particular rest stop had a Wendy’s.

When I was a kid, one of the things I’d wished for at every birthday was a Wendy’s in Dorf. Mom explained that Dorf was just too small for a fast-food franchise, but I didn’t really get it. I mean, I would go every day, right?

Graham was gone for about twenty minutes. When he came back, he was driving a late-model minivan. He also had a big pile of Wendy’s bags.

Well, that was one small upside.

“I am not leaving my car behind,” Zion said.

Williams shrugged.

Knowing there was no way to argue for my car, I pulled it off onto the grass at the edge of the lot and got into middle row of the minivan with Kara. Williams settled the deer in the way-back, then got behind the wheel. Graham rode shotgun. We pulled out, and Zion followed in the Porsche.

I wondered if Williams had put some kind of invisibility working around my car. Either way, I doubted I’d ever see it again. The maintenance people would start mowing the grass in a month or so, and when they did, they’d find it the hard way.

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