Alpha's Captive 04 - Haven Read Online Free PDF

tell me how long it will take to get there?” she asked.
    “Four hours, give or take.” Levi shrugged. “We’ll only want to cross state lines once—straight into West Virginia without cutting through Maryland. That’d be smarter.”
    “That’s a long time,” Harper said.
    “It is what it is.”
    “Hey,” Harper said suddenly, realizing that they were still moving in darkness. “Aren’t you going to put on the headlights?”
    “Wasn’t planning on it.” Levi accelerated to highway speed.
    Har per gripped the molded armrest on the door.
    “Okay,” she said carefully under the assumption that it was better to not upset the crazy person who was driving the car she was now in. “You realize that it won’t matter that we escape the vampires if we end up dead, right?”
    “I’m a werewolf, Harper,” he said in a tone of patience.
    “That’s nice. I’m not. I don’t know about you, but if this car gets squashed like the tin can it is, I die,” she said.
    “The car’s not going to get squa shed. I can see just fine. Werewolf, Harper. You know all the stories about wolves, nighttime, moon?”
    Harper shook her head, remembering how easily he’d moved in the darkness before . It hadn’t occurred to her that it would transfer to driving, but of course it had to, didn’t it?
    “ Okay,” she said. “But other drivers won’t be able to see you.”
    “That’s kind of the point,” he said. “I’ll be able to see them, but they won’t see me until I’m practically on top of them.”
    “Won’t you , like, startle people?”
    “Better startle a few people than stumble into a police blockade,” he said.
    She shook her head. It still seemed ridiculously dangerous to her, but then again, she wasn’t the one who could see in the dark. But this wasn’t an argument she was going to win, not with him behind the wheel, so she decided to drop it—and raise the other question that had been bugging her.
    “ If you’re worried about being traced, do you think it’s still safe to use your prepaid debit card?”
    “Still?” he repeated.
    “Yeah. We used it at the first gas station, at the Wendy’s, at Walmart, at the travel plaza,” she said.
    “I don’t remember saying you could use it at the travel plaza.”
    “You didn’t think I’d use mine, did you?” she retorted. “Anyhow, you didn’t say I could use it at Walmart, either.”
    Levi snorted. “If that one’s not burned now, it will be. I’ve got others in the wallet. Bought at different times, different places. Different brands, even.”
    She held out her hand. “Okay. I need another one if I’m going to be getting a cell phone while you’re fueling up.”
    A fter another long look at her, he pulled his wallet from his back pocket. “Check the little pocket behind the cardholder.”
    Harper poked through it until she found the spare cards, a Bluebird AmEx, a Chase Liquid, and a Western Union MasterCard.
    “H ow much are on them?”
    “Thinking of going on a spending spree?” he joked.
    “Maybe I’m thinking of getting my car fixed,” she retorted, making a face at him.
    “What about your insurance?” he asked. “Don’t have comprehensive?”
    “ It’s my Baby. Of course I have comprehensive. But they’ll call it totaled. I don’t want it totaled. I want it fixed,” she said. “Anyhow, there’s a thousand dollar deductible, and then there’s the fact that my car insurance will skyrocket, and the fact that they’ll only give me seven K for the car tops, and then I have to buy it back from them—and you’re still looking at a whole lot of money.”
    “There’s a grand on each,” he said then.
    “Yeah, not going to be enough,” she predicted.
    “Probably not. All joking aside, Harper, I’ll get it fixed. Whatever it costs, if we make it through this and it’s physically possible to fix your car, I’ll make sure you end up with a big enough slice of the pie that you can pimp it out like Nightrider if you