Bones (The Bones Series Book 1) by K.L. Speer

Author:K.L. Speer [Speer, K.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K.L. Speer
Published: 2024-01-23T18:30:00+00:00

Madame’s guards made up the majority of the clientele at Hydro. The door opened smoothly unlike Mootzie’s door that wobbled on half-broken hinges. The stools didn’t wobble either, and the bar counter looked like it’d actually been cleaned in the past month. I chugged my first drink. The bartender raised his eyebrows at me but didn’t comment as he refilled my glass.

I tried hard not to think about it, but I kept seeing Apple's face, the betrayal, the hurt. Gods, why hadn't I stopped Zip? I deserved Zip's anger. Apple didn't. I finished off my second drink and slid my glass to the bartender for another. I was working on my third when a guard named Ritz plopped down in the seat next to me, her face flushed and eyes bright.

“Hey, Doc!” she slurred. “You catch any of the show?”

I wasn’t sure if people started calling me “Doc” because Zip did, but at least enough people did it now that it didn’t make me think of Zip too much. I finished off my drink, feeling much lighter, and frowned in confusion.

“What show?”

“Gods, you’ve never been here for sentencing have you?”

“What the fuck are you talking about?”

She grinned and grabbed my arm. “C’mon, it’s still going!”

I let her drag me outside into the chilly air. We went deeper into the south side of the hold, through the slums, to where I'd never been before. There were no residences here, just workshops. The buildings were ramshackle, and it smelled like shit, but a crowd of people had formed. A roar of voices filled the air, growing louder as we approached a ring of large pine trees. Ritz pulled me to the edge of the crowd, and I stared in drunken shock at the muddy pit that appeared in front of us. A giant of a man I'd never seen before stood below, bare-chested and streaked with blood. He exchanged blows with a scrawny-looking man who appeared to be losing badly.

“The big one’s Brimstone!” Ritz yelled in my ear to be heard over the crowd.

“Who’s the other one?” I yelled back.

“Dunno!”

Before I could ask more, Brimstone charged and caught the other man around the neck. His meaty hands twisted and before I could even blink, a loud crack sounded as he snapped the man’s neck. The crowd roared, but I barely heard it. I stared horrified at the limp body that Brimstone casually dropped back into the mud. What the fuck was this?

I went to ask Ritz, but she'd vanished, swallowed by the frenzied crowd. I turned back, my eyes darting around. Across the pit from me, several men pulled a small person from a collection of cages. She screamed and fought, but the men dragging her didn't hesitate before they pitched her into the pit with Brimstone. She landed on her hands and knees in the mud, but she leapt up fast and tried to scramble up the side of the pit. A swift kick from someone standing on the edge sent her sliding back down on all fours.

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