Winter’s Web: An Elemental Assassin Novella by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
Published: 2019-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

Still clutching Owen’s hat, I skirted around the blacksmith forge, threaded my way through the crowd, and hurried back over to the Pork Pit truck. Sophia had fed the latest wave of customers, and she leaned out the window again, a concerned look on her face.

“What’s wrong?” she rasped.

I quickly told her about the giants following me into the woods and then handed her Owen’s bloody hat.

Sophia studied the hat a moment, then set it aside. Her face darkened, and her black eyes glittered with anger. “What do you want me to do?”

“Call Finn and Bria—” I stopped and let out a vicious curse.

Calling them wouldn’t do any good, since they’d turned their phones off earlier, just like Owen and I had.

“Close up the truck, then go find Finn and Bria and tell them what’s going on,” I said. “Spread out and start looking for Owen. Ask around, and see if anyone remembers some giants in black leather carrying another guy. Whoever took him couldn’t have gotten too far away yet.”

“What are you going to do?” she rasped.

“I’m going to find another giant dressed like the ones who attacked me and squeeze him for answers. I don’t know that all those giants are working together, but it’s a place to start.”

Sophia nodded and started closing up the truck. I left her there and hurried over to the wrought-iron fence that cordoned off the park from the gravel lot beyond. I looked out over the rows of cars, trucks, and vans, but I didn’t see anything suspicious, and there were no empty spaces to indicate that a vehicle had recently left.

The kidnappers could have taken Owen out of the park, put him in a car, and driven away, but it would have been much more conspicuous, and they would have had to walk right by the Pork Pit truck to do it. Whoever had planned this had been very careful and smart so far, and I doubted they would have wanted to risk Sophia seeing and stopping them. No, my gut was telling me that Owen was still nearby.

That was my hope, anyway. I wasn’t going to think about all the awful things that might have already happened, all the ways that he could have been horribly hurt and brutally tortured. My stomach roiled with fear, but I pushed it away and instead focused on the cold determination surging through me. I didn’t know what this was about yet, but I was going to find Owen, and the people who took him were going to pay for what they’d done.

With that dark and deadly promise beating in my heart, I moved away from the fence, walked back through the concessions area, and started doing a sweep of the front part of the park, searching for the black-leather-clad giants.

But I couldn’t find them—not a single one.

Earlier today, the giants had been everywhere, but now there was nary a one in sight. That only confirmed my suspicion that they were working together. After

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