Chapter Nineteen
Qadim had asked her if she wanted to retrieve any of her belongings from the bunker, but she’d shaken her head. That was her old life. She didn’t want to drag anything from that time of worry and fear and being hunted into this new world, this new life among the djinn and their Chosen.
The elders must have spoken with Zahrias, or informed him in some way, because he was waiting when Madison and Qadim drove into town. They’d decided that was the best way to leave Albuquerque, since they didn’t know exactly where they were going in Santa Fe, and they had enough things to carry that Qadim would have been hard-pressed to take it all in one trip.
Besides, she had to be impressed with his style; Albuquerque’s stores of gasoline were aging, so he’d found an electric car for th
