Break The Ice by Gardner Kevin P

Author:Gardner, Kevin P [Gardner, Kevin P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kevin P Gardner
Published: 2015-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

“Can I help you?” the woman behind the front desk says. She’s in her thirties. Dark brown hair and dreary eyes. Her face sags. She looks exhausted.

Kaitlyn steps up to the desk. “Hi, we’re looking to meet up with our friends who booked a room here.”

“Room number?”

“Three fifty-seven.”

The receptionist licks her fingers and flips through a few pages of a ledger propped up in front of her. “Ah, here we are. Mr. and Mrs. Adams?”

I force my mouth shut before saying anything.

“That’s us,” Kaitlyn says, placing a hand on my arm.

“I have an extra key for you.” She scribbles something into the ledger and hands Kaitlyn the card. “I must say, you two look awfully young to be married.”

Kaitlyn smiles. “We get that a lot. Mind pointing us in the right direction?”

“Of course. Take this hall all the way to the end, staircase is the last door. Two flights up and it will be a few doors down on your right.”

“Thanks so much,” she says.

I nod and follow Kaitlyn down the hall. When we’re far enough I say, “Did they really have to do that?”

“Married for less than a minute and you’re already unhappy?” she says.

“That’s not what I meant,” I say, blushing.

“They probably did it in case we found them and asked by name or something.”

I make it to the third floor first and hold the door open for Kaitlyn. A thin layer of sweat has soaked into my shirt already. I hoped it might be cooler out west but that didn’t happen. We reach the door, and I pound my fist against it.

“Use this,” Kaitlyn says, handing me the keycard.

Slipping it into the scanner, I wait for the green light. It clicks, and I shove the door open. “Funny joke,” I say. “But did you guys need to–”

Mel and Ted sit side-by-side on the queen sized bed. They’re looking at the only corner I can’t see.

I assume Ted finally made his move until I step through the short hallway in time to see a blue man step through an opening. The wall seals and Tinjo stretches his arms.

“You are not late. Good. I feared you did not receive my message,” he says.

Kaitlyn looks at me.

I shake my head. To Tinjo, I say, “Tinwel helped us along. Why make us drive if he could have done that from the start?”

Tinjo’s face remains blank. “Timing is important.”

I don’t expect to get more than that. “Fine. What’s the next step?”

“This building is close to the Sunjin’s main base. I believe you possess the coordinates already?”

“I do.”

“Good. Go there at midnight. That is when they are weakest. Find their leader and cast him into the fires.”

“One ring to rule them all,” Ted says, finally moving on the bed. Mel slaps his shoulder.

Tinjo tilts his head.

Before he can ask the question, I say, “How do we know which one is their leader?”

“You will know,” he says. “Use your instincts. They are strengthening inside with every fight, I can sense it.”

“We don’t have an army,” Kaitlyn says, speaking for the first time.

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