“Most days. Yesterday was not one of those days.”
His words stunned her so much she lowered her pizza as she gazed at him over the table. “Has it already been a day?”
“Yes.”
Elena stared at the thick orange and yellow curtains covering the picture window. The sun’s rays peeked around the edges of the drapes, but she had no concept of the time.
“I have to contact my mother somehow,” she murmured. “I need to know she’s okay.”
“We’ll figure out a way to do so.”
“She has a phone.” She turned in her seat to gaze at the phone between the two beds. She’d tried it earlier but hadn’t gotten a dial tone. “If we can find a working phone, I could call her.”
“That phone works,” Logan said. “But it requires a phone card to use it. The motel clerk said we had to hit nine to dial locally.”
“Oh,” Elena said as she stared at the phone. “But long-distance….”
“We won’t get anything. I plan to do some shopping for phones and supplies once Asher wakes. My phone broke while we were fleeing the complex, and I couldn’t find Asher’s, so I assume he lost it. The clerk said they normally have phone cards, but they sold out of them last week and haven’t replaced them yet.”
“You could go shopping now,” she suggested.
“I’m not leaving here until I’m sure Asher’s going to be fine.”
She understood that meant he wasn’t leaving until he was sure Asher could defend himself againsther. She didn’t take offense to it. The lack of trust went both ways.
“What’s your role with Ronan?” she asked. It was pointless to argue with him.
“I’m a fighter in his and Nathan’s army.”
“And what do you hope to accomplish?”
“We’re trying to destroy the demons rising out of the bowels of Hell.”
Elena choked on her pizza. When he leaned toward her and lifted his hand like he was going to slap her on the back, she held up a finger to hold him back. When she was certain she wouldn’t choke to death, she took a swig of water as his words kept replaying in her mind.
Is he insane? Or did I miss awholelot while I was away from the compound?
Chapter Ten
“You want to dowhat?”she asked when she could talk again.
“Stop the demons that we’re both descended from before they destroy us all.”
“Oh, I see. Well, that is afantasticgoal. I’m guessing I’ve missed some things since I ran away, and my father didn’t completely fill me in when we started speaking again.”
Logan sat back in the chair and clasped his hands on his stomach. “Just a few things.”
“Are you going to fill me in, or am I supposed to remain clueless?”
“Why wouldn’t I tell you?”
She picked a pepperoni off her pizza. She was trying to act completely casual about it, but she was dying to learn what was happening. Demons roaming the earth was equally skin-chilling and fascinating.
“I’m not technically a hunter anymore or part of your Alliance. I’m also a woman, and you don’t know me. You may be a vampire now, but you were once a hunter, and women are second-class citizens in the compounds.”
Logan frowned at her words. That wasn’t the way he considered women at all, but had he once thought of them as such? To him, the women were there to make good wives and mothers.
It never crossed his mind they might dream of more, but he didn’t look down on them for it. They were simply doing their duty and kept sheltered and protected so they couldallkeep the hunter line alive. Men were expendable; women were not.
