Evie’s voice drifted over the phone when I called her after a frantic online visit to EverythingsBiggerinTexasbuttheAirfare.com.“Arizona.” I braced myself for a stab of guilt. I was really headed to Austin and then Lonely Fork, but I wasn’t going to clue Evie in on my real destination. For her own good, of course. If Ty or my mother realized I’d gone MIA and why, they would start looking for me.At least I knew my ma would.Disappointment did the stabbing this time, but I ignored it and concentrated on the situation at hand. A few seconds alone with some ultra-vamp mojo and Evie would be singing like Carrie Underwood. I couldn’t risk it. The less she knew, the better.“I’m flying into Phoenix,” I went on, “and then I’ll head out to the conference center via cab.”“Have you been drinking?”Just a glass of O+, but I didn’t think that’s what she had in mind. “No.”“Snorting coke?”“Hardly.”“Smoking wacky tobacky?”“No.”“Riding the monkey?”“I don’t even know what that is.”“Neither do I, but I’m watching Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and this guy is talking about riding the monkey.
