Free Valcour- Enchanted by a Demon (Hunted by Hellfie- Book 1) by Libby Sparks Page A

written on. “I’m sorry, there’s no name. It came in last night and the night clerk said she didn’t want to disturb you while you were sleeping. Here.”
    The fact that there wasn’t any name on the message didn’t even surprise her. She took it from him and read it quickly. Then she stuffed it in her pocket and walked away.
    Brianna had changed her clothes this morning, throwing out the t-shirt from yesterday with the bullet hole torn through the shoulder. She was wearing a blue blousy shirt now, one of her better ones, and had opted for a comfortable pair of khakis. She had transferred her pocket change and thumb drive and other things from her jeans, along with the item she felt in her pocket now. She had forgotten it was even there.
    As she walked distractedly out to the car, Brianna did another mental tally of her belongings. She had everything of hers from the room already packed in her duffle bag, and she’d checked the room over several times to make sure that nothing was left behind.
    Her Altima waited for her in the same spot she had parked it in yesterday, near the back of the lot. She popped the trunk with the key fob and set her duffle bag in among her other suitcases and things, then closed the trunk again. It popped back open. Sometimes it stuck open like this and she had to slam it down to get it closed. There.
    In the driver’s seat, she adjusted the mirror and took a quick look at herself. Yesterday, she had thought she looked much older than her twenty years. Today, the lines around her eyes were less noticeable, and there was an unidentifiable quality to her expression that she had trouble naming at first.
    Then it hit her. She looked happy, which make her laugh to herself. Happy is the last thing that any normal person should be feeling when seated next to a demon.
    “You ready to go?” Jake asked her from the front passenger seat.
    “Almost,” she answered, adjusting the mirror back. “You ever been to New York?”
    “I have. It’s been a while, but I’ve been there. Big buildings, lots of people, cops on horseback. Just like in the movies.”
    She laughed, a sudden and explosive sound that made him turn and stare at her with his mouth partly open, and the way he looked made her laugh harder, and then he was laughing with her even though he couldn’t know why.
    “I’m not from that part of New York,” she said to him. “I’m from rural, small-town, northern New York. Think trees and farms and highways that lead pretty much nowhere.”
    “Really? Huh. Can’t wait to see it.”
    She started the engine, shaking her head. When she had started out for home two days ago, this trip sucked. Her mom had died, her dad needed her help, she’d had to drop out of school almost at the end of the semester. All of that. Not to mention being inside a building when it blew up, and having demons chasing her.
    But she never would have met Jake if she hadn’t been here, in this small city in Minnesota. Being with him, knowing he’d be with her for the rest of her trip, gave her a different perspective on everything
    Maybe exciting things did happen to her, after all.
    “Oh,” she said, suddenly remembering. She leaned back to push her hand into her hip pocket and noticed the way his eyes followed the line of her body as she did. “Down, boy.”
    He smirked and tilted his head briefly to the side. “Sorry.”
    “No, you’re not.”
    “No, I’m really not.”
    Her fingers caught the chain and she pulled out the gold necklace, the spiral designs catching the morning sun through the windshield. She put it on over her head now and turned it so she could look at the pendant. “I wanted to say thanks for this. It’s pretty. Is it old?”
    Jake was staring at it, eyes wide and unblinking.
    “Jake? Um, hello?”
    His eyes flicked up at her then back at the necklace again. “Where did you get that?”
    “I got it in the package you sent me, doofus. I appreciate the gift. Only wish the rest of