Wylde Fire (Halfblood Legacy Book 3) by Devin Hanson

Author:Devin Hanson [Hanson, Devin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Fortunately, Sam didn’t need much convincing. After making sure I really wasn’t injured, we went back the way we had come. There was no way to tell if Gerard had another posse hiding in wait on the ground floor or something, and neither of us wanted to risk it. Ten minutes later, we were back in Sam’s car.

“All right, you’ve made me wait long enough,” Sam said. “What happened back there?”

I bit my lip, trying to think of how much I should tell Sam. All of it, I decided. At least, all that was relevant. “Gerard gave a demonstration of Vibes to a… group of my cousins.”

“A group? Those four that were with him, they are like you?”

I waggled a hand. “Yes, and no. They had heritage that led back to Mahlat, but not for many generations. Most of them had less than a percentage of her bloodline. They were… weak.” That wasn’t true, but Sam didn’t need to know details. “Once Gerard left, I made sure my cousins wouldn’t help Gerard again.”

“You looked pretty shaken back there. Was that because of the demonstration?”

“It’s really bad, Sam.” I swallowed, remembering how that girl had given in to her lust. “We can’t let Gerard spread it.”

“That’s why we’re here. We’ll stop him. Where is Gerard taking the Vibes?”

“To a train yard, where there is a distribution hub. There can’t be that many in LA.”

Sam grimaced. “You’re wrong, unfortunately. There are at least six major train yards that I can think of in downtown Los Angeles alone, and more as you go south-east toward Buena Park and south to Long Beach.”

“Oh.” I got my phone out. I had several missed calls, but they would have to wait. I checked, just to see what Sam was talking about. He wasn’t kidding.

It’s hard to comprehend sometimes just how large the greater Los Angeles area is. It’s forty miles, roughly, from Irvine to Santa Clarita, and almost every square foot of that space is dense city. There is an absurd amount of goods coming in and going out every day. A lot of that traffic is in the form of cargo trucks, and more comes in from the docks, but there were constant trains coming and going from the city as well.

“There’s got to be a way to narrow it down,” I said. “Some of these stations are commuter train parking.”

“You’re right.” Sam got his phone out. “I’ll call it in. Lara will put some people on the problem.”

While Sam was busy with that, I checked my messages. The first was from Jason.

“Hey, Alex, I guess you’re busy. I would really like it if you could make the time to meet my parents. They’re only in town until Thursday and I don’t know when you’ll get another chance to meet them. Give me a call so we can talk about it.”

Jason had left me another message.

“Alex! Hey. I may have promised my parents we would go to dinner with them tonight. Ah… Anyway. Call me.

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