Exigency (Dark Operator Book 4) by Doc Spears & Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Doc Spears & Jason Anspach & Nick Cole [Spears, Doc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge Press
Published: 2020-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

Hours of food and music followed. Attractive young women took turns sitting on Kel’s lap as he winced, the nano-dressings on his legs and the medicines not taking away the deep ache that remained. Finally, they returned to the compound, Kel riding with Gerald and his close entourage, the young female assistant snuggled beside Gerald, his arm draped across her shoulders.

“Arinka was quite worried about you, young Mark,” Gerald said. The young lady smiled at Kel. Gerald drank much during the revelry and was now quite inebriated. “I told her it was for nothing.”

This would be the perfect time to kill Gerald. Him and his entourage. Kel couldn’t. He was exhausted. Instead, he vowed to force the epiphany that would make a suitable plan clear to him.

“Thank you for your faith in me, Compeer Senator,” Kel instead said with an exhale of fatigue.

Gerald laughed. “I told you, when we are alone, you must call me Gerald. Just as I call you Mark. You are part of the inner circle now. Isn’t that right, Castoro?”

The very sober man next to Kel agreed. “It is so. It was a great victory tonight, Mark. You avenged our compeer, Lucado, though his sacrifice for the struggle will be remembered.”

Kel took the meaning. “Lucado, was he… ?”

Gerald preempted the rest of the question. “He didn’t have your luck. Or skill, I suppose. Still, he was a valuable compeer and will be missed.”

Information I could have used earlier, Kel fumed. I wouldn’t have entertained the request to draw out the fight had I known the null boxer killed Lucado. He still didn’t know the fighter’s name, not that it mattered now. Kel thought about the prostrated form as it was dragged out of the cube and placed on a repulsor gurney. Perhaps with regen the fighter would regain some of the brain cells Kel had killed with his prolonged strangle. He really didn’t care, though. It was becoming a true effort to conceal, but Kel had taken a dislike to what he’d experienced of this part of Sonestran culture. The posturing. The boisterousness. The bullying. The fighter had been the epitome of the local character at its worst. He’d seen much kindness and beauty here as well, but the more time he spent with the revolutionaries, the harder it was to recognize. At the end of it all, what will I remember about his place? he wondered. When I look back, I just want to remember that I freed my friends.

As they departed the sedan, Kel turned toward the dorms where the guards quartered, anxious to see the tiny room he had bedded in.

Gerald laughed in his irritating manner, made even more irritating as the man slurred, “Not so fast, Mark. Arinka, get our valued compeer settled before you come to bed. You don’t belong there anymore. You deserve much more. ‘From each according to his abilities,’ and I say your need is a reward from the people. Tomorrow, the struggle continues. Sleep well, warrior for justice.

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