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Apparently, Ariadne had driven to a town on the northeastern coast of Massachusetts and stolen the speedboat. She found her way back with no difficulty, parked the speedboat by the dock where she’d found it, and led me to the van.
“Where are the others?” I said.
“I left them in a hotel,” she replied. “I couldn’t leave them in Lawrence, since Goldie obviously knew where we were. That’s why it took me as long as it did to get to you. Even with my charms and bewitchments, it took some time to get them to a safe place.”
Ariadne unlocked the van, and we clambered inside. “How do you think they found us?”
“I was stupid.” Ariadne’s expression was stony. “I don’t know what I was thinking, bringing you guys out in the open on the Boston Common. Boston has a higher concentration of undead th
