4
Jake had remained silent while he piloted the Gladiator through Kanab’s quiet streets as quickly as he could without attracting any attention from the local cops. His heart ached for the woman who sat in the passenger seat, but even though she’d stopped sobbing just as they reached the town limits, her head was still slumped, and he had a feeling that anything he said would have been horribly, woefully inadequate.
So he stayed quiet, even as his mind buzzed.
Who the hell had that guy been? A government agent, but where had he come from? Had Adara’s latest display of weather magic drawn him to Kanab, just as it had drawn Jake himself there?
Probably, but he knew the questions would have to wait. For the moment, the most important thing was to get as far away from Kanab as possible. He
