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manage to control it."
    "Fine,
I'll work on my temper. Now please just tell me where I can find this Geoffrey guy."
    "I
have an address for you, Jasmin, but you're not going to like what
happens next."
    "Yeah,
I know. You've said that already. Just give me the address. If
Geoffrey can save Ben then it doesn't matter what happens to me."
    Relief
made my limbs weak as Rachel finally complied and rattled off an
address. It was some tiny city in Nebraska that I'd never heard of
before, which meant that my instinct to come here had paid off. I
wasn't very far from the help that Ben needed.
    "Thanks,
Rach. I'll fill the car back up and then I'll head straight there."
    "No!
Don't wait to fill up the car. Go now, put the address into the GPS
on your phone and drive as fast as you can."
    "That's
stupid, Rach. I'm below half a tank already. Five minutes isn't going
to make a difference."
    "That's
where you're wrong. Five minutes will make all of the difference in
the world. Do it my way or you're going to be sorry. You're going to
need more help from me than just this address before all is said and
done."
    "What
does that mean?"
    "Geoffrey
isn't just sitting there waiting to talk to you, he's a captive and
you're going to need my guidance to get him out."
    "How
do you know all of this, Rach?"
    "It's
hard to explain, I just know it. Now go. Seconds matter right now."
    **
    I
took off like a bat out of hell. I wasn't just driving aimlessly like
I had been before. I had a destination and I positively shattered the
speed limit. It was especially dangerous to drive this fast in the
dark. Any set of headlights, no matter how good, couldn't let you see
as far ahead as you could during the day. At slower speeds that was
less of an issue because it took you longer to cover the ground that
you could see. At a hundred and twenty it was a very real problem. I
had my brights on, and even in this form my vision was quite a bit
better than a human's, but it was still taking a risk.
    I
told myself that Rachel would have known if I was headed towards an
accident, and I just poured on more speed. I'd thought that I had my
anger under control, but as the miles rolled away underneath my tires
I felt it growing again. Rachel had no right to be toying with me. It
was ridiculous to expect me to go into everything blind like this.
    By
the time an hour had passed, my rage had grown to the point where it
was all I could do to stop from ripping the steering wheel free from
the dashboard. I wasn't actually sure that I was strong enough to do
that now, but it had already creaked alarmingly a couple of times
over the last few minutes, so I was doing my absolute best to stop
from stressing it even more.
    The
computer on the dash started warning me that the tank was nearly
empty when we were still more than forty miles away from the address
Rachel had given me. The computer was predicting that my tank would
be bone dry within the next twenty miles. I couldn't change the laws
of physics, there was no way for me to make it there without stopping
for gas, but the anger bubbling just beneath the surface had a lot to
do with my choice to stop when I did.
    I
pulled off at a tiny gas station in the middle of nowhere and did a
double take when I realized that there wasn't a credit card reader at
the pump. I'd switched over to prepaid credit cards, the closest
thing there was to the equivalent of a burner phone, when it became
important to remain anonymous, but it looked like I was going to have
to dip into the store of cash Alec had given me when I'd left.
    I
pushed the button that put me in touch with the attendant in the tiny
store a few dozen feet away, and then waited for a couple of seconds.
    "Yeah,
what can I do for you?"
    "I
need some gas."
    "How
much? We've got a cash-first policy for anything over forty bucks."
    "Forty
should be fine."
    I
was pretty sure that it would take more than that to fill the car up
completely, but I didn't want to make two trips into the