CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
When we stopped again, it was in the basement parking lot of a hotel.
Vehicles surrounded us, and I was stunned that Kai had let us get so close to others. The guards stood around us. Kai stepped to the side and talked to one of them before the man nodded and left us, hurrying across the lot.
A door closed in the distance.
We could hear conversation, a laugh, a baby crying.
“We’re in Kelowna.”
I didn’t know what surprised me more, that we were in a small city a few hours from Vancouver, that Kai had told me, or that Blade had sent us here.
I only said, “Oh.”
Kai eyed me again, his eyebrows up. “You’re not surprised? You expected this?”
I shot him a look. “I thought you were better at this than I could ever be?”
He grinned. “I am, and you seem confused. I’m wonder
