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He moved his head forward, jutting out his chin and putting his mouth right in her face. “Leeloo,” he told her.
She gave him the same attitude right back. “Andwhyare you calling me that?” she asked.
“Because you have hair like Leeloo inThe Fifth Element.”
Angel crossed her arms over her chest and laughed. “No, I don’t.”
“Yeah, you do.”
“Her hair is orange. Mine is cherry red.”
“Still looks like hers,” he argued. “And you’re still not fucking leaving,Leeloo, until I know where Kenya is.”
“ENOUGH,” I told them.
Angel threw her arms up in the air and stomped away. Judy gave me a warning glare, but I ignored it. “I’ll find her,” I told them all. I felt cold. Numb. But my mind was racing and my heart was pounding in my chest.
“How are you gonna do that, witch?” Jamal asked when I walked up to him.
My upper lip lifted in a sneer. “You’re just going to have to trust me,” I told him.
“I don’t trust anything about you,” he replied.
We stared each other down for a few minutes, but whatever he saw in my eyes must have been enough, for he stepped away from the door. “You know what? You do that. You find her. And you’d better do it before Killian can leave the house.”
He didn’t need to tell me why he was giving me that particular warning. The master vampire was probably losing his shit. I went to walk by but he grabbed my arm.
“Wait. Give me your phone.”
“I don’t have time for this shit, vampire.”
“Give. Me. Your. Fucking. Phone.”
I thought about blasting him out of my way, but then I saw the panic in his eyes. Pulling it from my pocket, I swiped the screen and entered my passcode, then handed it to him.
“Here’s my number,” he told me. “You call me the minute you find her. Understand?”
“Yeah,” I told him.
“The fucking minute,” he insisted, then shoved my phone into my chest. “And know the only reason I’m letting you go is because I’m fucking stuck here until the sun goes down. So you’d better not let me down, witch.”
I took it from him and slid it back into the pocket of my coat. “I got it,” I gritted through my teeth.
He held me there a minute, his jaw tight and his eyes anxious, then he let me go and walked away.
Looking back at Judy, I gave her a nod and walked out of the room.
I knew who’d taken Kenya.
Now, I just had to let him find me.
Chapter 16
Alex
Irushed out of Ancient Magicks only to stop just outside the store. Standing in the middle of the sidewalk, I looked up and down the street, completely clueless as to which way to go despite my assurance to the others. Tourists walked around me to peer into the shop’s windows, looking at the displays before casting strange glances in my direction.
Where to go? Where to go?
