Beautiful Dragons_A Thriller by Matthew James

Author:Matthew James [James, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-22T22:00:00+00:00

19

Roman was in spy heaven. Freddy had all kinds of gadgets and gizmos, but he also had the standard stock he’d expect from an arms dealer. The room was about thirty by thirty, and it was packed along the walls, floor to ceiling. The center of the room looked more like a small weapons museum than a store.

His collection, Roman thought, looking around.

The first thing he saw was a weapon he’d never seen in action but something he had always wanted to use.

Man, that was demented.

“Is that an injector knife?” he asked. It was displayed on a shelf by itself and looked like a modified version of one. He had seen pictures of them, and they looked a lot smaller, more the size of his tactical knife.

“Yes,” Freddy answered, “and before you ask, no, I’ve never sold one to anyone. That, my friends, would be an awful way to die.”

Roman smiled. “Can I have it?”

Rubbing his chin hard, Freddy shook his head. “No, it is one of a kind, specially made and—”

“What if I promise to use it on Mako?”

Freddy clapped his hands hard. “Deal!”

He gently took the knife from its resting spot and handed it to Roman, not letting go for a moment. Freddy looked hard into his eyes. “You only have one cartridge in the hilt so do not miss.” Roman gripped the handle, but Freddy still didn’t relinquish the weapon. “You do this for me—kill Mako—and I will be forever in your debt.”

Roman nodded, and Freddy released his death grip on the sheathed blade. Unclipping it, the agent pulled the blade free and whistled. It resembled a samurai’s short sword and was even engraved with symbols that explained its name.

“Exploder?” The name sounded juvenile compared to what Roman would’ve called it, but it fit it bill.

Somethin’ like ‘Internal Dragon Fire’ would’ve been cooler. He shook his head and sneered. That name sounded like something you’d get after too much wasabi.

Freddy smiled a wicked smile. “The average injector blade carries a payload that would result in a cubic foot of gas expansion within the victim. The Exploder has double that. If you hit an organ, it will literally cause it to explode—as well as freeze everything around it.”

“That’s awful,” Roman said, grinning.

“You two lovebirds about done?”

Roman and Freddy turned and saw that Violet was inspecting a pair of wakizashi swords. Both were beautiful and had decorative hilts, complete with purple and black leather woven within the handles. The blades themselves gleamed and looked almost fake they were so polished and pristine.

“Those blades belonged to my mother,” Freddy said, walking up to the stand. He stood behind them proudly and waited a few seconds to speak again. What he said almost dropped Roman and Violet to the floor.

“In a past life, she was known as the Violet Dragon.”

Roman fumbled the lethal injector knife, and his eyes went straight to the Violet Dragon in the room. He stayed silent and waited for Freddy to explain.

“Two Violet’s before you was my mother.

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