Page 69 of Hannah and the Hitman
HANNAH
“Thanks for picking me up.”
“From an adult store on Colfax? I want the story,” Brittany said, an hour later when she picked me up in front of Pleasure Palace.
“Who’s car is this?” I asked, scoping out the interior of the white minivan as I put my seatbelt on. In the back was a booster seat, a pool noodle and stray crackers.
“Dr. Todd’s. You took my car, remember?” She pulled onto the road headed west. We’d have to go a few miles to get to the highway that took us up into the mountains and to Coal Springs.
Shit. It was in Jack’s parking garage.Mycar was still at the library.
I should be freaking out. Iwasfreaking out. “Right. I’m so sorry, B, but I didn’t know who else to call.”
“I’m your BFF. You’re supposedto call me.”
“So did you save Jack?”
“Yes. With my superpower.”
She hummed something, probably a theme song for a superhero movie. Her finger even tapped on the steering wheel along with it. She wasn’t thinking clearly when it came to my current situation.
“I tossed a bad guy across a parking lot, and he got run over,” I said, trying to get her to see this wasn’t one of those comic movies. I threw a real guy, and he gotreallydead. “Then Jack accused me of being a hitman sent to kill him.”
A bark of laughter escaped as she stopped the car at a light. “You? A hitman? You put spiders in a cup and carry them outside instead of smooshing them like normal people.”
I flung my hands up, then dropped them back in my lap. “Right? That’s what I tried to tell him. Not the spider thing, but that he was fucking insane.”
“Then what?” The light changed and she accelerated, looking both ways before crossing the intersection.
“Then he kidnapped me to his sorta-dad’s old apartment in some industrial area, we got in a fight, and I teleported.”
“Again?” As if I did it all the time.
I nodded.
A slow smile spread across her face. “That’s so awesome, but why the Pleasure Palace? That’s a little odd.”
I shrugged, slid my fingers over the shoulder strap of the seatbelt. “I’ve only done it twice, but it seems I get sent to wherever I was thinking about right before it happened. The Pleasure Palace is the only adult store I know because they have those commercials on the radio.”
She glanced my way, eyes wide. “You were thinking about an adult store while fighting with Jack? Very kinky.”
“He said he’d stopped at one and picked out some things for us. I guess he piqued my interest.”
“A guy who’s secure enough in himself to pull toys into the bedroom is a–”
“Don’t say keeper. There’s one thing I haven’t shared yet.”
Her eyes bugged out. If I shocked her any more, they might fall out. “There’smore?”
She slowed for another red light. Colfax had one at every block for what felt like miles. At this rate, we’d never get out of town.
“Yeah. Jack actuallyisa hitman.”
She tipped her sunglasses down and eyed me like I may have started spouting in tongues like Perry said he could do. “What do you mean he’s a hitman?”
“I mean he kills people for a living. That’s his job.”
“Are you serious?”