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Chapter Nine
BLUE
For once, I was thoroughly exhausted.
My feet ached.
My head hurt.
Hell, my ass hurt.
All I wanted to do was sit down and figure out what was happening.
Bryce was chugging right along like this was an everyday occurrence for him. Knowing who he worked for, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.
Only one of us was dressed for trekking through the woods in the middle of the night.
It obviously wasn’t me.
“We’re almost there,” he said, looking back to make sure I was still behind him.
“I swear you’ve said that at least four times now,” I grumbled.
“I actually mean it this time,” he replied. I could hear the smile in his voice.
“What’s going to happen now I’m gone?”
“Depends.”
“On?” I questioned.
“It depends on how Vitus plays his hand. You don’t need to worry about any of that. My liege has everything taken care of.”
That was nothing short of diplomatic. I nodded, even though he couldn’t see me.
“There it is,” he said after we’d walked a few more minutes.
I peered around him and almost melted with relief. A blacked out Wrangler was parked on the side of a rural road. The sigil of Baphomet w
as embellished on its hood and the driver side door.
Two people in long, black hooded robes and white masks stood outside of it.
“Um…who are they?”
“Acolytes,” he replied, holding out his hand to help me down the hill we had come upon.
I accepted and let him lead me down, not letting go until I was by the passenger side door of the Jeep.
One of the acolytes turned to look at me, but didn’t speak. I couldn’t tell if they were male or female. Whichever, it was unsettling to have their sole attention.
I offered them a smile and made a point to stare at the window until I heard the lock click.
I scrambled into the Jeep and swore I heard one of them laugh under their breath as they got in the back with their companion.
Bryce climbed in the driver’s seat and quickly got us on the road. It didn’t take long for him to say his piece.
“Romero sent me to Vitus a few months ago. No one knew where I was but him. Everyone assumed I’d been working at a skin farm.”
