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The Kum-N-Go’s roadside-chic interior was bathed in a sickly fluorescent glow The arout coffee had h my as, so getting cash took priority over raiding the snack aisle for the moment

While I entered my code and waited, Adalanced over and raised his eyebrows I lifted a finger and took a moment to ad in a car for two days straight, he still looked hot with his stubble and road-weary se part made him off-limits

Before I got caught staring, I aze to theAdam’s SUV and my cherry red Ducati provided the only scenery in the e lot The bike’s 180 horses rested docilely on a trailer behind Adaued I wouldn’t need wheels in New York, but I heldleft ofit behind wasn’t an option

A flash of white caught as pumps The red-eyed owl had followed us all the way fro us in New York I’d gotten so used to seeing hi me He never caused trouble, which was more than I could say for my other companions on this road trip from hell

The headlights froht-black Mercedes lit up theIt pulled in on the other side of Adaet out I waited to see if he’d corabbed my attention

I took the clump of twenties the machine spat out and stashed it in istered under a false nah a bank in the Cays When I’d set it up, it was a better-safe-than-sorry measure, but noas all I had left to my name

I was turning toward the front of the store when the three redheads came around the back of Adam’s car My heart sputtered and then kicked into overdrive

How’d they find me so fast?

“Adaot corabbed forI’d left it in Ada with a box of apple cider bullets After a few days on the road with no sign of trouble, I’d grown coht three assassins ar but the pair of apple-wood chopsticks that held my hair back Awesome

Thethat read “Darrell”

“Go lock yourself in the storeroom,” I told him

“Huh?”

I flashed s and pulled him bodily across the counter “Get the hell out of here!”

Wetness spread across the front of his wrinkled khakis He stammered for a moment, then turned tail and ran toward the back of the store

Adam had already spotted the trouble “Friends of yours?”

I turned toward the door, watching the three vampires make their way toward us “The one on the left is Nick Konstantine Likes to get stabby, so watch your back” Nick was the kind of vaave the rest of us bad na theuy is Fatty Garza”

“What’s his specialty? Eating his opponents whole?”

“So like that”