UnStoppable [Book 2]

Stays in Vegas

This story is so much fun to write, seriously, especially now that it’s getting closer to the end!  Hope you enjoyed the last chapter and this chapter!

Chapter Quote:

“Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.”

~Drew Carey

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Chapter 12: Stays in Vegas

Bryn 

The smell of sizzling bacon woke Bryn up.  She didn’t wake up easily to anything, so someone must have been cooking some really good bacon.  She rolled out of bed and threw her hair up into a ponytail before walking into the kitchen.  Silena, Derek, and Rachel were all there.

“Where did you get the bacon?” Bryn asked, sliding into one of the bar chairs.

“I snuck out of the hotel because I didn’t want to encounter any of the employees and have them harass me to stay,” Rachel said nonchalantly.

“You left?” Bryn demanded sharply.

“Yes, and returned back in one piece, no distractions.  I took Silena with me for backup.  You hungry?”

“Starved.”

“Good, because I made a lot.” Rachel plopped about five pieces of bacon on each plate and handed them to everyone.  Bryn dug in ravenously, wondering vaguely where her appetite came from.

“So where to next?  How are we going to get from Colorado Springs from here?” Silena inquired, shoveling bacon into her mouth.

“I’m working on it.  Let’s just get out of this hotel as soon as possible.  I don’t like the feeling it’s giving me.”

“What do you mean?”

“I feel like… someone is waiting for us downstairs.”

“Hannah?”

“Possibly, or her minions.  Try and be ready to go in thirty minutes, okay?” Bryn got up and left, eating her last piece of bacon on the way to her room.  She put on some makeup, just enough to look presentable to the public.  After that, she changed into shorts and a tank top because it was the middle of July in Las Vegas.  It was only nine in the morning and already eighty-nine degrees.  It was going to be a hellishly hot day.  She stuffed her belongings into her backpack and went to the living room.  Derek was already there.  Rachel and Silena were still in their rooms.

“You okay?” Bryn questioned.

“Yeah, had another dream last night.  About Hallie,” Derek admitted.

“What happened?”

“Her dad… he hit her.  We need to get her out of that house.  I don’t know where she lives though…”

“She will be rescued.  I promise.”

“It needs to be soon Bryn.  I don’t know how much longer she can handle it.”

“You know I never go back on my promises.”

“I know.”

“Good.  So once we find Luke, Hallie will be rescued next.”

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Silena 

Silena was the last to be ready.  She’d had to do some facial cleaning because unlike everyone else in her family, she’d been jinxed with bouts of bad breakouts.  She envied her brother who apparently never had such problems (if he did, Silena didn’t remember it).  Bryn had never had so much as a blemish, but that was because of her Aphrodite genes.  Derek told Silena he’d gone through a breakout period when he was younger but it lasted a year at most and never happened again.