Contained (Virus Book 3) by Crayton RJ

Author:Crayton, RJ [Crayton, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29 - Lijah

He hadn’t yet had a chance to talk with his mother about him and Natalie joining her and Alex for a little whist. He knew his mother liked whist, and she said she used to play tournaments sometimes in college. If Elaan was right and Alex had been at school with her mother, then he probably played whist, too.

He wanted to show Natalie what they were like together. And if Alex were as controlling as he’d been earlier, it would at least give Natalie pause. Perhaps enough pause to offer him help. He was quite curious about the Central floor. He wanted to know more about what they did there. He was sure Natalie hadn’t just taken him there because it was a good place to talk. She wanted to help him. She wanted him to know things. She was secretly letting him know that.

And if she was doing it in secret, it should follow that she didn’t entirely trust Alex either. Only, she kept insisting he was a standup guy. Or maybe she was simply practical. You could trust someone and know that, at some point, they would be in no position to help you. At some point, things were above their pay grade. Lijah trusted his father, but that hadn’t helped them back in the DC SPU.

He sighed as he walked over to the centrifuge to remove two test tubes. Dan was standing nearby and nodded at him. Dan was a short black guy with a goatee and close-cropped hair. He always stood very straight, as if his height bothered him, but he wasn’t particularly aggressive, as some short men were, feeling they had to make up in attitude for what they were missing in inches.

“How goes it?” Dan asked.

Lijah shrugged. “Can’t complain. I’m not up there,” he said, his head indicating the world uptop.

“Ain’t that the truth,” Dan said. He was looking over data on a tablet. He leaned in a little. “I’ve been seeing you a lot with Ms. Radcliffe. Are you two a thing?”

Radcliffe? “Who’s that?”

“Natalie,” he said, then added, “Until recently, queen of cold.”

Lijah thought her last name was Payton. Maybe Radcliffe was her married name. Still, he would’ve thought any woman married to an abuser would have wanted to jettison that surname in favor of her own. “You know,” Lijah said. “I didn’t even know her last name. And yeah, we’ve been chatting. She seems nice.” He paused as the centrifuge finally whirred to a stop, and lifted the lid to pull out the test tubes. “Is there something I need to know about her?” He looked at Dan meaningfully.

This time Dan shrugged and said, “Nah. It’s just unusual for her to take an interest in people. She’s usually pretty closed off.”

He nodded. “Actually, I am, too,” he said. “Maybe that’s why we get each other.” Lijah grabbed the test tubes from the inner cylinder and walked away.

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