Penny and Boots Complete Series Omnibus: An Unveiled Academy Novel - Snakes and Shadows, Werewolves and Wendigo, Pixels and Poltergeists, Bunyips and Billabongs by Amy Hopkins & Michael Anderle

Author:Amy Hopkins & Michael Anderle [Hopkins, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-11-24T22:00:00+00:00

“What do you mean, four days?” Penny leaned over Crenel’s desk, resisting the urge to punch it. “Do you know what Vila did to get that for you?”

“Believe me, I’m as pissed as you are.” Crenel removed his glasses to rub his face. “We’re just stretched thin right now.”

“Then let us go!” Penny rounded back to her first response. But, even after forty minutes of arguing, Crenel wasn’t having it.

“Not this time.” Crenel slid his glasses back on. “Listen, kid, it’s just too—"

Someone thumped on Crenel’s door, not waiting for his response before throwing it open. Amelia burst in, hair wild, eyes rimmed with red. “Penny? There you are, I’ve been looking everywhere for you.” She sucked in a shaky breath. “Red’s gone.”

Cisco stepped in behind her, face grim.

Penny pulled her friend into the room and grabbed her shoulders. “What? What do you mean, gone?”

“He’s gone!” Amelia yanked her phone out and pressed a couple of buttons. The buzz of a phone rang out on speaker, then the robotic voice of her voicemail service.

You have…one…saved message. Message received… today… ten-twenty-seven AM.

It beeped and Red’s voice spoke, excitement thickening his accent. “I found it, sweet pea! It was in the cookie. I just have to go back to where it happened! I can cure it!” A car honked in the background as Penny listened, fear chilling her to the bones. “It’s a long drive and tonight’s the full moon, but I’ll be back in the mornin’, you’ll see. And then I’ll—" Amelia clicked the message off.

“What did the rest of it say?” Crenel demanded.

“Uhh, that bit wasn’t fit for anyone else’s ears.” Amelia blushed. “Look, Red has gone on some stupid quest to cure himself, but he’s going to wolf out as soon as the sun is down!”

“What cookie was he talking about?” Penny asked, mystified.

“He’s gone back to that Chinese place a few times,” Cisco suggested. “He’s really got a vendetta against that cat. That, or he really likes the Kung-pow. Maybe he picked up an actual, real fortune cookie?”

“Any ideas?” Penny asked Amelia.

Amelia shrugged. “Damned if I know. But he said he’s going back. Back where? Not to that stupid beach, I hope. I was cleaning sand out of my—"

“Oh, shit!” Penny grabbed Crenel’s arm. “Please tell me you can get people there.”

Crenel stared back, head slowly shaking. “I…can’t. They didn’t tell me what’s going on, but our agents are working on something big. There’s no one.”

“No one but us.” Penny dropped his wrist. “You can’t keep us here. Not if Red is in danger.”

“Are you sure that’s where he’s gone?” Crenel was already grabbing forms out of the stack of papers on his desk.

“He took his bedroll,” Cisco confirmed.

“You’ll need the big weapons bag. Audio and infra-red equipment, and anything else that might help you find him up in the hills.” Crenel jotted down notes on the acquisition paperwork as he spoke. Without looking at it, he slid the tiny map back toward Penny, and she grabbed it. “Anything else?”

Penny bit her lip and sucked a breath in.

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