Vengeful Darkness by Sarra Cannon

Author:Sarra Cannon [Cannon, Sarra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781624210891
Published: 2021-06-25T18:30:00+00:00

A Very Specific Combination Of Choices

Harper

As much as I wanted to drive straight through the night, keeping whoever might be following far behind us, it wasn’t going to do anyone any good for me to fall asleep at the wheel.

Rend’s potion had kept me flying at the top of my speed for hours earlier, but now that we were driving, I was losing it. After the third time I’d had to practically slap myself across the face to keep my eyes from drooping, I had to admit defeat.

I finally pulled off the highway and into the parking lot of the nearest motel.

It wasn’t a fancy place by any means, but on this less-populated stretch of highway, tired beggars couldn’t be choosers. Besides, the more out-of-the-way we could be at this point, the better.

Magda groaned and stretched, rubbing her eyes.

“Where are we?” she asked.

As she woke up enough to see more clearly, she cut her eyes toward me and shook her head.

“No,” she said. “I am not staying in a place called the Roadside Motel. That sounds like the kind of place where people get murdered.”

I hid a smile. Magda had probably never stayed in a motel in her life, not that I’d had much experience with it myself. A few road trips when I was really young, but right now, I wasn’t exactly trying to be picky.

“You’re welcome to sleep in the car, if you prefer,” I said, gathering my things.

“I have a strict three-star and above hotel policy.” Magda followed me toward the office, despite her protests. “We’re travelling on a major interstate. There has to be a nicer hotel close by.”

“I honestly didn’t look, and since I don’t have a cell phone with me, I couldn’t GPS it,” I said. “Besides, I wasn’t going to make it much further without getting in an accident, and this place only has two cars outside.”

“So?”

“So, that means there aren’t a lot of people here to notice us or give any kind of description of us if someone comes asking,” I explained. “The more we can stay under the radar, the better, and you know as well as I do that we shouldn’t use glamours right now. They’ll be looking for any magical signature, and since you’ve got a piece of the Order literally inside your chest right now, I have a feeling they could track us if they really wanted to.”

Magda sighed and straightened her blouse.

“Fine but this better just be for a few hours until you feel rested enough to keep going.”

We stepped into the front office, which was little more than a tiny square box with a high desk inside. The guy sitting behind it was on his phone, and when he heard us come in, he quickly extinguished a cigarette and waved his hand around in the air, as if he honestly thought we wouldn’t notice.

I didn’t care what he did in here, though, as long as he could get us into a room as quickly as possible without too many questions.

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