Black on Black by Jc Andrijeski

Author:Jc Andrijeski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Urban, Private Investigators, Mystery & Detective, International Mystery & Crime, Paranormal, Hard-Boiled, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Suspense, Cyberpunk, Thrillers, Supernatural, General
ISBN: 1523249188
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2015-12-03T06:00:00+00:00

Ten

AIRPORT

WE GOT ON the plane at two in the morning that night.

I argued with Nick... with both of them really, but mostly with Nick. I didn’t want them to come with me. I told them I should go alone, that they should stay away from this in terms of being on the ground.

Nick wouldn’t even discuss it.

And truthfully, he was right. He was the one with the connections in Paris. He was the one who had people waiting for us over there.

He also pulled some strings and got fake passports for all three of us, using one of his old Special Ops pals who now worked in the State Department.

I knew the IDs probably wouldn’t help us hide from Lucky’s people, of course.

Not only did Lucky’s people know what I looked like, they’d probably be able to track me via Black, much less the RFID chip in my arm.

When it came to this seer thing, there was no way to be safe.

We also couldn’t trust anyone, including Nick’s pal at the State Department.

Even someone who might honestly be trying to help us could be read or manipulated by a trained seer. Black said that seer skills were significantly diminished in this dimension compared to where he grew up, but he also seemed to think Lucky found some way around that, at least in part––maybe by collecting all the known seers and pooling their abilities in some way.

Either way, it was unnerving in the extreme, not having any idea who we could trust.

Nick argued he’d already involved himself too much to not be at risk.

Angel didn’t even bother to argue. She just showed up at my apartment in the Richmond in a cab and knocked on my door around eleven-thirty that night. We picked up Nick about twenty minutes later, since he lived south of the city and closer to the airport.

We didn’t talk much during the flight itself.

I sat between Nick and Angel and tried my damnedest to sleep, knowing we wouldn’t have any time to waste once we landed. I couldn’t sleep, though. I ended up sitting there with my eyes closed, looking for Black in that dream-like space.

I never found him. He’d gone quiet not long after our fight on the phone, and I had no idea what the silence meant.

As the flight progressed, I got hit by images––really, more like paranoid movie-reels––that wanted to play incessantly in my head. I tried to tell myself they weren’t real, that they were just my mind working overtime, but some part of me doubted that. In those flashes, shadowy forms broke down Black’s door, dragging him out of the room with the high ceilings and the fireplace. I saw Black bundled into the back of a van, Black cuffed and shoved into that creepy renaissance dining room with Grigiore and a long table filled with more people like him––people with strange-colored irises and oddly perfect faces.

I saw Ian. Not with them, but somewhere else, watching maybe, like I was.

A Thai

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