SOS HOTEL: Luxury to Die For by Adam Vex & Ariana Nash

Author:Adam Vex & Ariana Nash [Vex, Adam & Nash, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crazy Ace Publishing
Published: 2024-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Power Outage Plunges Bay Area into Chaos.

Zee showed me the headline on his phone, then flicked to another. Networks Go Dark! Then another. Are Unicorns Real?

“Wait, are they?” I asked.

“Huh? Oh, that’s . . . I was looking that shit up when my phone died. Did you know, nobody has seen a unicorn, so in theory they could exist, which means they do until someone proves they don’t. Like dragons. Ha.” He spun the chair at the bar table, and straddled it, then braced his arms over the back and blinked innocent eyes. “Sooooo . . . Did we fuck up San Francisco’s power grid? Knock out the internet and phone networks? Or was that some kind of wild fucking coincidence?”

“I’m going with coincidence.” I nodded firmly. There was no way our bedroom shenanigans had caused a citywide power outage. That would be silly.

“Okay, okay . . . I’d agree but . . . it’s just . . . have you seen Madame Matase yet?”

I’d woken up, left Victor sleeping soundly, showered, dealt with some minor overnight hotel issues, and joined Zee downstairs in the bar. “Not yet. Why?”

“She says the hotel wards are . . . What’s the term she used?” He tapped his chin. “Fucked. Or did she say we’re all fucked? The hotel is fucked?”

“Why did she really say?”

He leaned forward and lowered his voice. “She has lost all control of the wards and they’ve grown so much they’ve fucked-off all the way down to the waterside, which is super fucking illegal, against a billion SSD regulations, and not to mention a fuck-off neon sign pointing to the hotel as the source of a fuck-ton of supernatural power, since we’re ground zero. Paraphrasing.”

She was right. If the wards had grown that much, the SSD would know we had a Lost One of great power at the hotel. There was no other way to explain how our wards had suddenly grown to encompass half the city. “I guess the streets will be safer for a while?”

“And people’s homes, and workplaces, and cars. And whatever nasty little thing they want to do, they can’t because our wards have encroached on their lives. Abuse, burglary, assault, and good ol’ fashioned homicide. Poof. Overnight cure.”

“Yeah, okay . . . that’s good?” But even I knew this was probably bad. Any kind of Lost Ones activity that could be seen to control humans was always bad. Humans did not react well to having their rights poked at, even if it kept them safe. They’d much rather have the free will to murder each other than have a Lost Ones ward keeping them safe.

“We got a few days, maybe a week, before the SSD come knocking,” Zee added, looking and sounding serious.

“I’ll talk to Elion.”

He blinked. “Elion is who now?”

“Agent Leomaris.”

“Oh fuck, right. That icy popsicle of agent faeness. I hope that pole down their pants is a fuck-off magic wand because we’re gonna need it.”

“They’ll help us.”

“If we find their girlfriend,

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