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"Can’t say on the phone, but you’ll want to hear it, believe me"

I bit my lip, frustrated with both his reticence to answer the daotten used to, seeing as everyone was doing it of late--and that inner voice that kept insisting so But was it clairvoyance, or the siot deeper? "Where?"

"At Larry’s, in Brunswick"

It wasn’t a place I knew, but then, that hat Google was for "When?"

He paused "Ten et--"

I cut the rest of my sentence off as my damn phone beeped, then shut down The stupid battery was dead

I swore softly, threw it down, then stalked across to the coled Larry’s in Brunswick It was situated on Hope Street, not far down frolanced at Azriel "I’ll meet you there"

"You do not wish ness was still present, but I wasn’t really sure whether it was related to Jak, or the still- options, then said, "Can you go to Stane’s first and ask hi co hi on his premises"

No, he didn’t, but he wasn’t about to keel over in shock fro to Azriel, and he should know Besides, I needed inforetting it--and it was stupid of me not to have asked him when I was there earlier "My phone is dead, and I don’t want to waste ti Jak He’s not a threat"

"Perhaps not, but given your own sense of unease--"

"Look," I said, iiven he was only trying to keep , and this had the feeling of the latter "It’ll take you all of three seconds to get to Stane’s and less than that to ask hiet myself into too much trouble in that short time"

Surely even I wasn’t that clever

He studied me, clearly unhappy, then nodded abruptly and disappeared I headed out the front door, locked up, then called to the Aedh A sliver of pain ran throughthat I was pushing iven me--or the mere fact that I was too close to the wards that prevented the Raziq fro h I had no idea why I thought Ilianna ht be the reason behind Jak’s sudden de h the streets, the bright lights little more than a blur underneathwarehouse structure that had obviously been no more successful as a bar than it had as a warehouse I re-forether,dubiously I couldn’t i in a place like this, and I sure as hell did not want to think about bad reasons But maybe this wasn’t about her--after all, it was Jak who’d collected the inforateway under the run-doarehouse near Stane’s Maybe he’d found another one

I walked across the road, every sense I had attuned to the old building Nothing stirred, and I couldn’t see or hear anyone near The night air was cool and whispered through the holes in oose bu unease

"Jak?" I kept my voice soft If he was here, he’d hear

"Inside" His voice was as hushed as rasped the door handle and wrenched it open Unfortunately, I usedmy hand between the door handle and the wall I bit backthe dark roo, couldn’t hear anything

"Where are you?"

"Here"

He sounded closer, but no warmer Trepidation prickled across my skin, and hts?"

"Can’t risk them"

"Why?"

"Get in here, and you’ll see"

Impatience threaded his distant tones, and just for an instant, he sounded like his old self Maybe I was just being paranoid

Maybe I should just wait for Azriel

Da on him to keep me safe Sooner or later, he would leave, but I was stuck with Hunter long term If I wanted to survive her post-Azriel, then I had better not start ju at shadows the minute he wasn’t at my back

Still, it ith a whole lot of trepidation that I continued toin here Can’t you at least use the flashlight app on your phone?"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>