“…tonight is our chance,” Cassia agreed. “Can you be here?”
She didn’t ask where we were. I assumed Abbi had told her the number to dial for Ricky, but she might not know we’d been god-snapped to Missouri.
I knew what Lula would say. We’d already decided to help save Rhianna, even if Dominick wasn’t the monster we’d been hunting. “We’ll be there.”
“Yay!” Abbi cheered. “Can you bring moon cookies?”
“Abbi,” I said.
“Thank you,” Cassia said.
She ended the call. I hung the receiver on the hook, turned, and leaned against the wall, thumping my head against it once.
Lula strolled back into the room, took one look at me, glanced at the god, then back at me. “News?”
“The witches have new information. They need us there tonight,” I said. “They said the clock’s ticking.”
She motioned at Raven. “We don’t have time to drive. You’ll need to snap us back to Texas.”
“Do I?”
Ricky walked into the room and deposited various magical weapons onto the table. “This is important, god. Get a move on. Make with the snapping.”
For the first time, I saw a glimmer of annoyance flash across his face, but he covered it with a droll smile.
“Oh, isthisan important issue? Something we should pay attention to? Something a god would take timeout of his vacation—a much deserved vacation by the way—to deal with? It’sthatkind of important? Do tell.”
She just sorted weapons by size. “So much drama. Like you’ve done any serious work in decades.”
“I’ve worked.”
“Uh-huh.”
“I’ll have you know I run a very…well moderately…well notunsuccessful shop in a quirky little tourist town.”
“Wow,” she said, the sarcasm just oozing. “Do you turn on theOpensign all by yourself every day?”
He waved his hand in the air. “I have people for that.”
I joined Lula and Ricky at the table and considered the weapon options.
Ricky picked up a knife, a spool of thread, and a ring and handed them to me.
“Knife with origin soil from the original vampire, which isn’t ideal—I’d prefer to have the soil of Dominick’s homeland, but I don’t have that. Still, this will give it more kick against any vamp you find. Spool of thread so you don’t get lost. Ring for speed. Best we can do on short notice.”
I put the ring on my good hand, stuck the thread in my pocket, and held onto the sheathed knife, since it was going to take two good hands to attach it to my belt. “Thank you.”
“Lu?” Ricky asked. “Choose your poison.”
Lula already had knives, guns, and other weapons back in the truck. “Defensive, I think,” she said.
Ricky pointed at a leather bracelet with dark stones. “Good for cloaking. How about a few explosives?”
And oh, how my wife smiled. “Lay it on me.”
Ricky handed her a string of what looked like acorns, although they were bright blue and too large to actually be acorns. “These should do you.”
Lula took them. “Thank you.”
