Break Apart, Reform by Meyari McFarland

Author:Meyari McFarland [McFarland, Meyari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meyari McFarland

2. Failure

Tiyamike ran through the Undercity, mask on and knives out. Down two flights of stairs, across an open street with slime-soaked floors and dripping ceilings and then into a little nook on the far side that should, if Tiyamike was far luckier than she deserved, place her in front of the assholes who'd attacked Mohana's group.

Stupid, stupid, stupid mistakes. How could she have made so many stupid mistakes in one day? All she'd had to do was get one man from the spaceport to the Crystal Palace and she hadn't managed that with all her crew and Hasenkamp's to boot. Be surprised if Hasenkamp didn't put a needle through her brain after this was over.

She'd deserve it.

The mask hid her face, filtered the air, and kept anyone from gassing her. Necessary. Whoever it was had hired assassins and thugs from off-world to take Mohana Baumhauer down. Big man Mohana better be able to defend himself because bad things were coming and he was first on the line to die.

Be a pity. Tiyamike liked him. Didn't flirt much but then few people did. Saw her square jaw, raw cheekbones, and looked away. Which was good. Fewer people that really saw Tiyamike the safer she was when she had to go out on an op like this.

Well, not like this.

This wasn't an op. This was a disaster, a fiasco of galactic proportions as Bala would say. She had to be cursing up a storm up on the surface. But if Bala got him through to at least Hasenkamp then it would be all right. Maybe. Possibly. No guarantees of it, of course. If they could slip him the amnesia drug somehow then everyone was doomed. Tiyamike as much as Bala and Imani.

Bad for business, that's what this was. Bad for her jewelry business, bad for her assassination ring, bad for Hexal City and the whole of Melin. They had to get these assholes, shut them down, or everything Tiyamike had built in her life was going to come crashing down. And that wasn't going to happen. She wouldn't let it. After she'd quit training to be a Consort like Bala, Tiyamike had decided that she wouldn't let anyone or anything control her again.

Now to come find that she'd been controlled all along and some asshole from another world was moving her and everyone she knew around like a Go stone on a board where she couldn't see the lines? Not good. Not going to continue, either. Especially since Tiyamike'd failed with her one job of the day.

Wouldn't stay failed for much longer, though.

Echoes of running men, heavy with good boot tread that echoed like hammer blows on the floors. Outsiders then. No one who lived in the Undercity wore boots that made noise like that. Made you too easy to ambush, too easy to kill. Tiyamike breathed deep, relaxed herself as best she could and then moved just as the troop of goddamn outsiders in their heavy armor and ridiculously huge blasters ran past her.

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