Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

Author:David R. Slayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2021-08-23T20:58:51+00:00

17

Adam

“I’m sorry I missed the funeral,” Vic said. He reached like he might put his hand on Adam’s knee, then withdrew it.

“You’re here now,” Adam said, being careful to drive just under the speed limit. Tonight was not the night for another encounter with the law. “That’s what matters. Thank you.”

Vic decided what to do with his hand, and it wasn’t what Adam had wanted as he folded his arms atop the seatbelt.

“You know we’ve got to talk, right?” Vic asked.

“Yeah,” Adam said.

“But later,” Vic said, “when we’re alone.”

Adam gave a little nod and flicked his eyes to the rearview mirror. The back seat held three cramped passengers, none of them looking very happy.

He wasn’t certain why the elves had insisted on riding this way, rather than shifting planes or driving one of Argent’s many cars. It had to be one more of the many stories they all needed to tell one another.

Jodi had passed out. She slumped against Silver, and the prince did not look pleased with the contact.

Adam’s and Silver’s eyes met in the mirror. The elf smiled, and it looked forced, strained. Adam had never been able to read Silver’s mood well, but when his eyes went distant like that, beautiful but extra cold, it was usually a sign that there was something heavy on his mind.

They were parked and inside the gate a while later.

Bobby and his mother came out to meet them.

“What’s she on?” Bobby asked, looking at Jodi as Silver carried her from the car.

“I don’t know,” Adam said.

Bobby sighed.

“We should take her to a hospital, a detox maybe.”

“She won’t be safe,” Adam said. “The druid came for her. I fought him off, but it was close. He’s a lot stronger than me. I think I surprised him.”

“Did you see him?” Tilla asked.

Adam could hear the other question, the one she wasn’t asking. Maybe Robert Senior was alive, maybe they hadn’t killed him all those years ago.

“No,” Adam said. “Not exactly.”

Tilla pursed her lips.

She turned, finding a smile for Vic as he climbed out of the car, but ignored the elves completely. She’d seen Argent once but had never met Silver. Adam thought she maybe had an out-of-sight, out-of-mind policy when it came to the supernatural beings. He had to figure out later if his mom was being rude.

“It was Jodi who took the bones,” Adam explained. “She said something about her birthright. I don’t really know what that means, but the druid tricked her, showed her how to lure him to her.”

“Why would he need that?” Bobby asked.

“I don’t know,” Adam said. “Maybe some of Sue’s wards were still up, keeping him out.”

“What bones?” Vic asked, picking up on the one thing Adam least wanted to talk about.

He hadn’t told Vic the full story, what he’d learned in Denver, that his brother and mother had killed his father to save him. Vic was a cop, and he was a good man. Adam would like to say that he didn’t know how Vic would

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