I, Angel by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2020-12-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Three Strikes

“And you’re absolutely sure there was someone else here?” Kara looked between Dags and Phoenix, hands on her hips. Her eyes grew harder when they settled on Dags. “Who?”

Dags answered as honestly as he could.

“I don’t know,” he said.

Kara scowled.

“You fought this guy, but you didn’t see him?”

“It was dark,” Phoenix cut in.

Dags glanced at her, saw her look towards the stairs, towards where the paramedics were sitting with Karver, trying to get a better look at the lump on his head.

“It was really dark,” Phoenix added, still looking at Karver. “I was watching, right from the couch, and I couldn’t see him, either.”

“And whoever it was, they were holding him hostage?” Kara said, her voice still openly suspicious. “Your boyfriend over there? How? And why doesn’t he remember it?”

“I don’t know,” Phoenix said, giving Dags a bare glance. “He might have drugged him or something. Karver wasn’t fighting him. The guy held Karver on the stairs, and Mr. Jourdain was telling him to let Karver go⏤”

“And how did the step get broken?”

Dags frowned. “The guy hit me. I fell. Hard.”

Kara’s eyes swiveled up to his.

A cold look lived in her eyes, one that clearly conveyed her outright skepticism of everything the two of them were telling her.

Even as he thought it, she motioned for Dags to come with her.

When he followed, she backed deeper into the room, closer to the wall of glass. Phoenix started to follow too, but Kara held up a hand.

“Please stay there, Ms. X,” she said, her voice polite but firm. “I need to talk to Mr. Jourdain alone.”

Phoenix hesitated, biting her lip.

She looked at Dags, as if to ask him if he was okay with that.

Dags nodded.

Not like he had a lot of choice.

Kara reached the massive windows and kept walking, leading him down past the bamboo partition on the left. She took him all the way to the end of that corridor and out the glass doors, out onto the patio, where the firepit lived.

She looked around them, as if making sure she wouldn’t be overheard.

Then she stepped closer to Dags, her voice a low hiss.

“What the fuck is going on, Jourdain?”

Dags frowned. “We’re trying to tell you⏤”

“Bullshit,” she snapped. “I know you’re not telling me something. I know she’s not telling me something. I know you’re lying, both of you, which means you’ve roped this actress into whatever bizarre shit you have going on⏤”

“I don’t have anything ‘going on,’” Dags said, exasperated. “And if anything, they roped me into this. Not the reverse.”

“Bullshit, Dags,” Kara snapped. “This has your weird crap written all over it.” Pausing, she said, “Was there really someone else here? Or did you get into it with that movie star?”

Dags stared at her. “What?”

“I’m not an idiot, Jourdain. It’s pretty clear there’s something going on with you and that actress, Phoenix X. Did you get into it with Karver Jamison? Over her? According to all the gossip sites, the two of them are together. Did Karver

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