Brothers by Lucas Flint

Author:Lucas Flint [Flint, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Secret Identity Books
Published: 2017-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The apartment building that Triplet’s contact had told them about was not too different from most New York City apartment buildings, aside from apparently being abandoned. If Kevin had been walking down the street, he probably wouldn’t have looked at it twice. Especially with all of the homeless people lying around; most of them looked less like innocent people down on their luck and more like criminals and drug addicts who’d ‘politely’ ask you for your wallet from the other side of a gun poking into your chest. Kevin imagined that that was why the Venetians had chosen this place as their base, or at least as one of their bases; most normal, sane people would avoid this kind of place, if they would even come to this part of the city at all.

Kevin and Triplet stood in an alleyway across from the abandoned building, hiding in its shadows, watching the homeless people who milled about it. To the untrained eye, these homeless people looked like normal homeless criminals, but Triplet had already told Kevin about the telltale signs that these ‘homeless’ were in fact guards. For example, all of them carried deadly-looking guns under their dirty coats and torn shirts; most of the time, these guns were well concealed, but every now and then, one of them would move in a particular way that would cause their gun to be visible for a brief second if you paid attention. Also, most of them were young, muscular men who looked like the sort of men who’d work for a private security firm, and they were all placed strategically in such a way that it would be impossible for anyone to walk up the street to the building without being spotted by at least one guard well before they reached the building’s front steps. And finally, there was the fact that they all kept looking around like guards; they did it subtly, of course, but even Kevin noticed how much the ‘homeless’ people watched the streets like guards defending a fortress.

Now, Kevin was not afraid of any of them. Being a superhuman, he could easily beat any of the guards in a fight. But Triplet had urged caution so far; they didn’t want the Venetians to know that they were here until it was too late. If White was being kept here—and there was a good chance that he was—then they had to make themselves known only when it would be impossible for the Venetians to move him out of here to somewhere else.

Even so, Kevin tapped the street with his foot, restlessly glancing out the alleyway at the guards. Triplet, on the other hand, merely leaned against the side of one of the buildings that made up their alleyway, his arms over his chest and his head down. He had sent out two of his Thirds to do recon on the area, just in case there was anything they should be aware of that they couldn’t see from here.

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