Then he saw it... everyone saw it.
Maddie inhaled sharply.
"Oh my fucking freaking big cock Dragon!"
Every head turned toward her.
Maddie did not give a rat's fuck.
Her eyes were fixed on the distance, wide, bright, utterly shameless in their shock. Patricia, as the teacher among these gloriously ungoverned children, clearly felt the instinctive need to correct her.
Unfortunately, she too had seen what Maddie saw, and the correction died in a far more reverent form.
"Oh my gods."
Which, really, was not much better.
Swearing to the gods was an understatement for what stood beyond the city, beyond the hotel's shadow, beyond the ordinary reach of even this absurd tower.
"You live there?" Valentina asked, her hand finding Patricia's without conscious thought.
Patricia held it back just as tightly.
Maya smiled softly.
Beyond the impossible distance, beyond the wide sweep of Hell's Paradise Island and the endless arrogance of its forest, a white mansion sat atop a hill.
No.
