SlayersInc.PDF by Elemental Alchemy

Author:Elemental Alchemy [Alchemy, Elemental]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-13T07:10:04+00:00

CHAPTER 7

“This is making me nervous as hell,” Chevy said. He clenched his fists in an outward display of frustration. Chevy and gorgeous Jorgé sat across a rickety table from Coop and me, in a ramshackle hut hidden in the middle of a rain forest. Both had deep frowns on their faces. The rest, Yam, Joe, Raul, Hawk, and Estaban were either still in the countryside or back in Santa Marta.

“All bets are off,” Coop said. “We need to regroup. I don’t like being followed.”

“It’s about this necklace,” I told them as I fingered it under my shirt. “Sandoval wanted it years and years ago. And he still wants it, maybe more than John Wilson and I first thought.”

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“Maybe that’s all it is.” Chevy relaxed his fist before he poured another cup of coffee and held the pot out toward Coop.

I reached out my cup. I’d had enough caffeine, but Chevy made a good cup of coffee.

“We’ll soon find out,” Coop answered. He poured a cup and knocked it over. The coffee soaked into the pitted wood and disappeared. “Joe will be at the villa in El Pajáro waiting for Jenna,” he said, with a sigh that spelled exasperation. “We need to get word to him our plans have changed.”

“So I go back to Santa Marta in the morning and see if I can get word to Joe,” I said. I was glad I finally had something to add to the conversation. I sniffed the air. Even with the strong smell of coffee, I could tell I needed a bath. We’d trekked nonstop for hours, only to end up in a one-room hut with a dirt floor in the middle of nowhere. Running water and modern amenities were about a century or so away. The sound of a burro braying told us we were about to have unscheduled company. I never saw so many guns drawn so quickly, but I think I might have been first. Chevy held his finger against his lips and whispered. “That could be Juanita, but why would she come here now? I told her it is important she not be connected to us.”

“Stay here,” Coop told me.

“Right,” I said before I followed a step behind him. Coop walked outside with Chevy to find his cousin Juanita putting her burrow into the poorly fenced paddock. My limited Spanish didn’t cover the agitated conversation, so I wasn’t 74

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certain what she said to Chevy. The words I did understand were unsettling. When Juanita burst into tears, I wanted to head in the opposite direction.

Instead I waited for Chevy to tell us the bad news.

“When Juanita arrived at our cousin Manuela’s house in the city, she couldn’t find her. Manuela had left no word with any of her friends in Santa Marta.

“Then Juanita found an elderly neighbor who said two men forced Manuela into a car. The woman is old so no one would listen. Manuela doesn’t know the kind of people who would abduct her. It has to be connected to me—maybe even to us.

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