A Darker Path (Corps Justice Book 15) by C. G. Cooper

Author:C. G. Cooper [Cooper, C. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C. G. Cooper Entertainment
Published: 2018-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Morning came, and a taxi honked from the street outside the house.

“Time to roll,” Wilcox announced, snatching the last piece of bacon from his plate and downing the remnants of his coffee.

Cal grabbed his backpack, Liberty stretching at his side.

“Where to?”

“That’s a surprise.”

“Of course it is.”

“You know there’s a part of you that wouldn’t want me to give away the surprise.”

Wilcox’s eyes were twinkling. Really twinkling.

They piled in the taxi. When the driver balked at having a dog in the car, Wilcox gave him a twenty and told him to drive to the airport, now.

Pictures of ordinary life flew by on the short trip to their next hop. Cal watched them flow by, soaking them up and imprinting them with his own snapshot memories. He caught glimpses of old friends gathered on sidewalks, cigarettes dangling from smiling lips. His mother and father, holding hands as they walked into a Subway sandwich shop in a shopping center with half the store front empty. His dead fiancée, Jessica, sitting on a bench waiting for a bus.

Why the dead? Was this a portent of things to come? Was he having illusions of the future, or were the dead welcoming him to their world, the two universes merging?

“Hey, we’re here.”

Cal looked up. Wilcox was out of the cab, bag strapped, Liberty waiting by his side. He hadn’t even registered arriving. Strange. Like he had one foot here and one foot…

No use thinking on that now.

Another private jet revved its engines.

“Come on,” Wilcox said, pulling a treat from his pocket and giving it to Liberty, who snatched it up like it’d been offered by Cal himself. Terrific. No more wariness of the criminal within. It was as if Wilcox’s chameleon status was recognized across species. The two had become friends, and after the first treat she sat down expectantly.

“Sorry,” Cal said, scooting off the seat.

“All here then?”

Reading his mind again, the bastard.

“Completely.”

They boarded the plane, the crew deferential. Wilcox was polite, even benevolent. He had them eating out of his hand before takeoff.

It made Cal wonder. It made him think. It made him shift.

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