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Again, Yordan kept them on track. “Not helpful.”
“Right,” said Pee. “But there’s no one available.”
“I’ll go,” Yordan said. “What’s at Torch Lake?”
Kit shook his head. “You haven’t slept in thirty-six hours. A shower doesn’t make you rested, and I don’t allow stupid macho shit.” He thought about his options. “I’ll fly up there. Hopefully in time. Pee, you organize this shit and recall Gummy’s pack.” He glared at Yordan. “You get some sleep.”
Yordan arched his brows, a look that had no right to be so sexy on him, then he crossed to the back corner of Coffee’s closet. He tossed aside a pile of clothes to uncover a safe. He punched in the code—a not so clever 7734 which spelled hELL upside down—then pulled out a paper envelope.
Both Kit and Pee watched with interest.
“What is that?” Kit asked. “And why didn’t you tell me he had a safe?”
“Because I know what’s in here. We all did.” He lifted out small plastic container filled with colorful somethings.
“And what’s that?” Kit asked as Yordan ripped it open and pulled out a long, thin, and very gross gummy worm.
“A week’s sleep,” he said as he stuffed the whole thing into his mouth and started chewing.
“Bullshit.”
“Truth,” Yordan said between bites. “Not all his fairy bets were moronic.”
“But—” Kit’s eyes widened. “Is that what Gummy eats all the fucking time?”
Yordan shook his head. Apparently the worms were really chewy. “Nah,” he said as he worked the worm in his mouth. “His are mundane candy store stuff. But this is how he got the taste for them.”
Kit sighed. Clearly, Yordan was privy to a whole world of combat secrets. “No way does magic work as well as a good night’s sleep.”
“Course not,” Yordan agreed. “But I’m not letting you go up to Torch Lake without backup.”
Kit wanted to argue, but he didn’t have any good options and time was running out. He couldn’t get Marsha on the phone. She was the one leading a pack of new puppies against the Torch Lake monster. For all he knew, he was already too late.
Damn it. He couldn’t think straight. Yordan wasn’t the only one who was operating with too little sleep. With a groan, he held out his hand. “Give me one.”
Meanwhile, Pee was already halfway through the first notebook, but she had enough presence of mind to shoot him a long, hard look of fear.
“I had no idea,” she said.
“What?”
“That there was so much stupidity here.” Her gaze included the spiral notebooks and Kit.
Yordan swallowed the last of his worm. “You people in the home office have no idea.”
Kit had started on his own gummy worm, and the thing was like chewing warm tar. But it tasted great, which was a contradiction, but somehow made sense.
“That’s exactly why you’ve been promoted,” he said as he headed out the door.
Yordan shot him a look of pure hatred, and Kit had the gall to laugh. “Welcome to my world,” he quipped, then he abruptly sobered as he pointed to Pee. “Stupid we may be, but you need to keep these bets in absolute confidence.”
She nodded. She wasn’t there yet, but eventually, she’d find out his bet, and damn it, he shuddered to think how her opinion of him would plummet. But he hadn’t the time to be discreet.
Thankfully, she understood. Meanwhile, he jerked his head toward the helicopter pad. “It should already have our gear,” he said to Yordan. They were halfway down the hall when his scattered thoughts popped up a new horror. “Run back and keep that door open,” he said to Pee. “Last thing I want is to lose the bedroom again!”
She was gone before he finished speaking. He turned his attention to updating Yordan as they walked. It helped that whatever fairy magic was in those gummy worms was slipping through his body like ten hours of sleep followed by a massage and a nap. Hell, he hadn’t felt this good in years.
“Where did he get those worms?” he asked, a renewed strength filling his voice and his step.
