Cyberpunk City Book Three: The Blayze War by D.L. Young

Author:D.L. Young [Young, D.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Concordia Professional Services, LLC
Published: 2020-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

15 - Pushing Tommy

“It’s bullshit,” Dezmund said. “Maddox has to be setting a trap for us.”

Blayze sat across from Dez in the small room. The kid was outside, handcuffed to the landing, watched by their body man, Kres. Unlike the two meatheaded locals they’d hired to watch the ground-level entryway, Kres was an actual professional.

Like Dez, Blayze hadn’t bought the kid’s story about how he wanted to change teams, how he’d had enough of being on a two-man crew. The kid was a good liar, though. She had to give him that. The performance he’d given had been a convincing one. Inwardly, she wondered if that was because there was an element of truth in it. If there was some part of the kid that really wanted to come over. Maybe the whole charade hadn’t entirely been an act.

“I say we let Kres have a little chat with him,” Dez suggested.

Kres could certainly beat it out of the kid. Their body man was a particularly gifted interrogator. That was the easiest play, and maybe the best one, given the circumstances. But if they went that way, it meant giving up her own sway over the kid. Tommy obviously had a thing for her. She’d seen it right away, from the first moment they’d locked stares at Maddox’s bar. It was like that sometimes. A kind of sixth sense she had. She knew at a glance, with absolute certainty, that she had power over someone, that she could bend them to her will. It had been the same way with Dez. If they unleashed Kres on the kid, the spell she had Tommy under would break. He’d hate her, fear her, resent her.

“I don’t know if that’s the way to go,” she said.

Dez furrowed his brow. “Look, if Blackburn’s lackey knows we’re here, then he knows we’re here too. That gives him the upper hand. We can’t just sit here and wait for him to make a move. We have to squeeze the kid, get him to spill what his boss is up to.”

“I know, I know,” she conceded, blowing out a frustrated breath.

“I told you we shouldn’t have come here,” Dezmund said.

Blayze looked at him crossly but said nothing. Because for once the little bitch was right. It had been a dumb idea to hide out here, if she was being honest with herself. A rash decision she now wished he would have talked her out of. But she couldn’t change it now, and there was no point in looking backward.

She tried to step outside of herself, tried to see things from the old jacker’s point of view. Why would he send the kid here? Unarmed and pretending he wanted to change teams? What leverage did that get him? Why would he think they’d buy it?

“Maybe it’s not a trap at all,” she speculated. “Maybe he’s just buying himself time. He knows sending the kid here would throw us off-balance. So maybe he doesn’t care if we can see through it, as long as it gives him enough time to get himself out of the City.

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