Chosen, Christine Pope [e reader pdf best .TXT] 📗

My frazzled brain eventually processed the meaning of that doorbell ringing. Someone was standing outside the door. How had they gotten into the compound? Climbed over the gate? Then I decided that wasn’t really the important consideration here.

Someone was outside.

And irritated, too, by the way they rang the doorbell again, then started banging on the door.

An unfamiliar voice — a woman’s voice — called out, “I know you’re in there, Jessica! Open the goddamn door! It’s freezing out here!”

That someone was a woman, and she knew my name. What the ever-loving hell?

Before I could even stop to think about what I was doing, I crossed the living room, then hesitated for a few seconds. That could be anyone out there. Someone from the Los Alamos group, come to finish me off. That didn’t sound right, though. I hadn’t seen one woman in their group; clearly, they didn’t seem to think women made good enforcers.

You’re crazy, Jessica, I thought, just before I turned the deadbolt and opened the door. Outside on the porch stood a young woman around my age, a pretty Hispanic girl wearing a red and green Nordic-style knitted cap and a bulky red parka, both of which were dusted with snow.

I’d never seen her before.

We stared at each other for a few seconds, and then she said, “Are you going to let me in? Because you’d better, if you ever want to see your djinn lover alive again.”

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