Chapter 52: To Visit A Witchdoctor

Jack

Next to Jack, Adeline gripped his arm with her free hand. She sat diagonally from the elderly woman but clenched her knife despite her pale face. The couple appeared normal when they first met. Now the old woman confessed to eating possums…raw? Who did that?

He'd seen too many supernatural beings to dismiss the old woman as kooky, especially when she smirked the way he'd only imagine the devil might. "What are you?" His words slipped out before he realized it.

Adeline eased forward until her legs brushed the back of the driver's seat.

A police car on the side of the freeway flashed its lights, pulling over a speeder. Not them. Miles of night stretched ahead.

"I'm a dragon, of course." Rosalee adjusted the seatbelt strap.

Adeline flinched, shaking her head. "But you said-"