Future Crimes by Rebecca M. Senese

Author:Rebecca M. Senese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RFAR Publishing

The Price of Time

When the red light faded, Sasha landed on her knees in the dirt by a two lane road. The thunder of the time shift rang in her ears, then a flash lit up the night sky. She blinked at the rain streaming in her eyes.

A thunderstorm. Not the time shift.

Her stomach lurched. She dug her hands into the mud, focusing on the squish of it between her fingers. The thick, earthy smell filled her nostrils.

Focus.

She forced the sour bile that burned her tongue back down her throat.

She was here. She was now.

Focus.

The rain beat down on her head, soaking her hair, and trailing underneath the collar of her black uniform jacket. Mud slicked up her leather pants. Her muscles trembled as she pushed herself up onto her feet.

Night time. The empty road stretched ahead of her. The asphalt looked like a black river. Darkness hid the land beyond but she could hear the rustle of branches behind her as the wind sailed through.

How far had she landed from the city? Would she get there in time to catch Barcus? The thought of his betrayal still made her stomach knot up. He’d been the best of the Retrieval Team, the brightest, patrolling the time streams, keeping everyone safe. The captain of her team. Her lover.

Until he betrayed them all.

Betrayed her.

The Time Investigators hadn’t told her why it had happened, just that Barcus had stripped out his Retrieval Unit and fled into the time stream. It was the highest crime. Without a Retrieval Unit, they couldn’t track where he’d gone, what he’d done. They’d never be able to correct for any changes he made.

He could destroy the time stream.

If she hadn’t seen him flee into the stream with her own eyes, she never would have believed it of him.

Why Barcus?

And of course leaving her behind, leaving her with the suspicions of the Time Investigators who would wipe her mind at the slightest refusal to do her duty. So here she was, hunting her own captain.

The man she loved.

The man she thought loved her.

How many lies had he told her?

Enough. Enough to bring her here, to the side of a road in the middle of a storm. Enough for her to be chasing him for the past few weeks.

Time to get back to work.

That was the problem with time: there was never enough and always too much.

She climbed up to the asphalt and started walking toward town.

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