The Magic of Hecate
Chapter 22 Chapter 22

Fourteen hours later,

When the plane landed I got through customs pretty quickly. I hopedto see my cousin waiting, by some miracle, for me.

Hint: he wasn't.

I sighed and regretted my entire life.

He's stitched me up or maybe I've stitched myself up. I should have gotMax's number of Miles but everything happened a little too quickly tothink about things like that.

I began to walk with just my single rucksack and mobile phone to theexit doors. I passed all the taxi drivers waiting with their named boardsnot even bothering to scan for my name. How was he meant to knowthat I was here?

I looked up at the signs that were, unfortunately but not surprisingly, allwritten in Russian. Judging by the symbols also on the signs, I found myway to the toilet.

Yeah, I'm in a foreign country all alone and no place to go but a womanstill gotta go.

As I was leaving the restroom, I felt a large body hit me at high impact.Casual.

"Jesus Christ," I cursed as I stumbled back into the wall.

"You fucking wish. It's Max a.k.a your favourite cousin in the whole wideworld," he said roughly ruffling my hair.

“I'm not a fucking dog,” I said shoving his hand off my head. "And whydo you have to be so rough? I just got off a 14-hour flight."

"Miles gave you my letter I presume?"

"He did and I came straight away."

"And the Alpha?" Max asked. "I expected him to be keeping tighterreigns on you."

"He went out and left me with Luci-fucking-ano. Who sexually abusedme before finally leaving me alone and giving me the opportunity toclimb out the window."

"Hold on. Luciano, your cousin, sexually abused you?"

"Yeah, it was super gross. You don't want the details,” I said. "So whereis the amulet and how long is this going to take? I need to get backbefore Leo hunts us down and painfully murders us both.”

"I stole a car and the drive to the mountain will take us a day. Fromwhere the road stops, there is another day's walk to where I think theyare keeping it. Then we do the whole thing in reverse. Like four days?""Silas's birthday is in a week and I'd rather not miss that,” I said.

"Who the fuck is Silas?" Max said as we approached the stolen car.

"My son," I said bluntly. "Thanks for paying attention.”

"You have like a gazillion kids and I've never met any of them. How am Imeant to remember their names?" he said.

It was a really nice car too. A black BMW with fancy leather seats andtinted windows.

"Talking of kids...I think that maybe you should know that I'mpregnant,” I began as we got in the car.

"You weren't even back for a week and you managed to get yourselffucking pregnant?!!" Max exclaimed. "Could you not have put a pauseon being the Alpha's baby machine for a few more days?!"

"Firstly, I am not the Alpha's baby machine,” I stated folding my arms."You make his babies. That makes you his baby machine."

"Shut up," I snapped. "And who did you steal this car from? It's veryswanky."

"You probably don't want to know the answer to that."

"Max..." I said sternly.

"Well...l thought that if I already have so many people hunting medown, why not add a violent Russian gang to the list? The guy whoowned this probably bought it with money made from drugs and crimeanyway so I didn't really steal it."

"I doubt they will view it like that, twat. We don't need more enemies.What if this thing is tracked?"

"Then we are totally fucked but we will cross that bridge when/if wecome to it," he replied as we drove out of the airport grounds.

"God, I really hate you sometimes.”

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