Royals of Villain Academy 5: Corrupt Alchemy by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2019-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Rory

The blacksuits obviously had a certain sense of discretion concerning our mission. I’d half expected a stretch limo to be waiting for us at the Sacramento airport to take us to our hotel, but instead we piled into a series of regular cabs. To Malcolm’s obvious chagrin, I ended up in one with Lillian and Maggie rather than him.

“The hotel will be very comfortable,” Lillian assured me, as if she thought I might mind the method of transportation.

Her assistant, who was sitting between us, gave me a look I couldn’t read. “I’m sure you wouldn’t want anything but the best, after all.”

If that was intended as some kind of jab, I didn’t follow it. Lillian didn’t remark on it, though, so maybe it wasn’t such an odd comment. It might sound odd if I emphasized how little I cared about fancy accommodations.

I gazed out the window at the California landscape we were cruising past. Even with the windows closed, I could taste the warm dry air. My stomach tightened. No matter where I’d been born, no matter what legacy awaited me, I wasn’t sure anywhere but this state would ever feel completely like home.

Deborah shifted in her perch beneath my hair at the back of my neck. I’d smuggled her along on the airplane without mentioning her presence to any of the blacksuits. Malcolm had needed to leave his familiar behind, but there was no way I was going to risk the unsettling sensation of being thousands of miles apart from mine for who knew exactly how many days.

She hadn’t said anything since we’d left Blood U, because we’d been in the company of blacksuits the whole time and she wouldn’t want to risk revealing the unexpected aspect of our connection, but I suspected she had to feel some sort of homecoming too. As far as I knew, she’d lived in California her entire life, which’d been a heck of a lot longer than mine so far.

Of course, it was hard to feel totally at peace when I knew the company I’d arrived with was already making violent plans.

“It’ll take us some time to confirm we have an appropriate location for the next locating spell and get it set up,” Lillian said, flicking through information on her phone’s screen. “You should take that time to relax and enjoy the hotel so you’re calm and centered for the ceremony. Just keep your phone on you and don’t wander too far.”

“I don’t think that’ll be a problem.” After the long drive to the airport and the longer flight after that, I was looking forward to crashing on my hotel bed for at least a little while.

“Hopefully we won’t run into any of the problems we had with the first locating spell, now that we’re so much closer to the joymancers,” Maggie said. “It’d be a lot more of a setback if we had to delay here—and possibly put the whole operation in danger.”

Her tone stayed mild, but Lillian shot her a curious look that told me she hadn’t expected her assistant to be worrying along those lines.

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