Aliens, Spaceships and the Occasional Latte (Jack Winters, Sci-fi Detective Series Book 1) by M.J. Wahl

Author:M.J. Wahl [Wahl, M.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban sci-fi, detective noir, urban space opera, action and adventure, Science Fiction, Space Opera
Publisher: Franklin Street Press
Published: 2014-10-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I looked past her, staring into the field across the road behind her, feeling suddenly paralyzed. I couldn’t tell her the truth - she’d never believe it. No one would, except maybe Johnnie. I suppose I could have come up with a plausible sounding lie, but I hated to lie.

“Donna, I...”

“It’s okay. Whatever happened, just tell me.”

“The thing is...I can’t tell you what happened.”

She looked puzzled. “Why not?”

“It’s a bit difficult to explain.”

She stiffened. “What do you mean, ‘difficult to explain’? What could have happened that’s so difficult?”

I suddenly wished I was back on the spaceship with the Radauti, light years from this situation. “I can’t. You’d never believe me.”

She stepped back and crossed her arms. “I beg your pardon? What do you mean, ‘you can’t’?”

“Not now, at least. Someday, maybe.”

“Someday maybe my butt!” she yelled, anger flashing in her dark eyes. “Jack Winters, you’re going to tell me now, or so help me God I’m going to kill you. I was worried sick. Do you have any idea what you put me through? What you put Johnnie through? We were worried you were dead.”

“Why would you think that?”

She rolled her eyes. “Oh come on, you disappeared without a word. For days no one heard from you, and then your Jeep was found abandoned by the side of the road. What did you suppose we were going to think?”

“Look, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for this to happen.”

“So just tell me. There must be some kind of explanation. You had to be somewhere. Did you take a spontaneous vacation and forget to tell someone? Were you kidnapped? Held hostage by a family of Sasquatches? Come on, Jack. You didn’t just vanish into thin air.”

“Donna, just give me some time, okay? You just have to trust me that there’s a good reason. A very good reason.”

She looked into my eyes. “Bullocks, Jack. That’s crap. I didn’t sleep for forty-eight hours while I helped search the woods and fields around here. There were teams of volunteers out here helping the police. I’m glad you’re alive, but I think you owe me an explanation. You owe a lot of people an explanation. You had to be somewhere. You can’t just not tell me what happened.”

I just looked at her, not knowing what else to say. After a moment she looked away. “You don’t trust me,” she said quietly. It wasn’t a question. “After all this time I’ve worked for you and everything we’ve been through together, you don’t trust me.”

I felt awful. “No, no, that’s not it at all.”

She brought her eyes back to mine. “I’ve hardly slept since you went missing.”

It took a minute for that to sink in. We stood quietly on the side of the road. It started to rain again. “I had no idea you felt this way.”

Her eyes were wet, not with rain, as she looked deeply into my eyes. “Come on. Let’s go before we both get pneumonia.”

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