Death's Echo (The Complex Book 0) by Raithby Rachel M & The Complex Book Series

Author:Raithby, Rachel M & The Complex Book Series [Raithby, Rachel M]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: action suspense, The Complex, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
Publisher: Rachel M Raithby Author
Published: 2016-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

“We should get dressed,” Aqulla said, raising her head from his chest.

“Hmm,” he responded, not bothering to open his eyes.

Aqulla traced patterns on his skin, beginning at his chest and ending on his stomach.

“Aqulla?” Jaylon groaned.

“Yeah?”

“Keep doing that and we’ll not be getting dressed for a long time.”

She laughed softly. “You didn’t seem very keen on getting up anyway.”

“I’m not. But we should.”

Aqulla sighed. Then lowering her head, she pressed a kiss to his hard, muscled chest. “The light only ever stays for a short while.”

“Hey.” Jaylon opened his eyes and pushed up with an arm, his other reaching for Aqulla. “I’m still here. I’m not going anywhere.”

“Sorry, I’m normally stronger than this. I feel exposed, as if the echoes have made my defenses raw. It’s not a feeling I like.”

Sitting up fully, he brushed Aqulla’s long hair from her shoulder and placed soft, delicate kisses on her skin. “No. More. Echoes,” he said between kisses.

“If only it were that simple, Jay. I can’t avoid them forever, and I have a feeling these murders are not going to be solved through simple detective work.”

“What makes you say that?”

“A hunch. I want to see the profiles again.”

“Okay. But I think we should go back to Climintra. Our absence will be noticed eventually.”

Back in Climintra North, Aqulla stared at the picture of the Meta she’d had a disagreement with when she’d waited to enter the Complex. She didn’t see his face, pale and dead, but the condescending smirk and the dangerous glint he’d had. He was the second suicide and no matter how many times she stared at him, she couldn’t make what she saw fit.

“I want to see him,” she said eventually to Jaylon, who sat across from her. There were two other Intra in the room, Melton Hale, a small slight man, and Elizabeth Jaz a large, almost butch-looking woman. They looked up from their work as she spoke.

“You’ve already seen him,” Jaylon responded, but Aqulla knew what he really wanted to say, ‘no more echoes.’

“I saw him with the others. Together they overwhelm me. If I can see him alone, I might get something.”

“Why him?” asked Elizabeth.

“I’ve…” Her gaze met Jaylon’s stern look. So you told no one of my altercation, even at the start. “I’ve seen him around the Complex. He doesn’t fit the suicide.”

“We could move the others to another room temporally,” suggested Melton.

“Excellent idea, Melton. You and Jaz go ahead and organize that,” Jaylon said.

Thirty minutes later, Aqulla found herself alone with Jaylon, his silence an indication of his anger.

“I don’t know why you are mad at me. I’m doing the job I’ve been hired to do.”

“Aqulla, not that long ago I literally had to kiss life back into you, and now you wish to repeat the process that had me needing to do that,” he hissed quietly.

“That was different. I’d opened myself up wide to any passing echo. And besides, you didn’t mind kissing me.”

“Beside the point,” he grumbled.

“You didn’t tell anyone about me spilling his blood?”

“It was hardly spilling, Aqulla.

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