Crowbones

CHAPTER 86

Vicki

Moonsday, Novembros 5

I didn’t run into the lake, and I wasn’t standing on the road. Hopefully that meant I was dashing in the right direction to find Aggie and Kira before something else found the two of them. How we were supposed to get back to safety before that something found the three of us was anyone’s guess, because I had no clue.

But I had sand. I surely did. And that’s what I would tell Grimshaw when he started yelling at me for not following orders and staying inside. I would not have an anxiety meltdown because a large man with official cop doodads on his belt was yelling at me. I would tell him I had sand and went out to save my friends.

Would Ilya represent me if Grimshaw arrested me for not obeying orders? Which I wasn’t required to do because I didn’t work for him, so phooey on orders. Wayne Grimshaw was not the boss of me!

I stopped walking and wondered how long I’d been having this argument with myself, because now that I looked around, I had to admit that running off to find Aggie and Kira by myself had been foolish, especially since I’d left my mobile phone on my desk and couldn’t call for help. And I had to admit that I really was in trouble, starting with being lost on my own property. Again.