Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea

Author:Kieran Shea
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Titan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

A MU WITH A VIEW

This is going to be so easy, Mu thinks.

Look at these two. Arm in arm, not a shred of care in the world. Like a couple of lovebirds out for a post-dinner stroll.

Suckers.

Mu is totally positive they didn’t make her at the restaurant. A close call, yeah, but luckily she turned around at just the right moment and became another unexceptional head in the Alaungpaya hordes. No, these two have no idea they’re being followed. No idea at all.

Mu hangs back and allows some of the people along the promenade to buffer the distance between her and her targets. She falls in behind a pack of chatty teens whooping it up, getting their evening party on.

What the hell? Mu thinks. What is it with this Martstellar?

A few hours ago she goes all tiger-on-tiger with Heinz and now the woman decides it’s okay to pick up a little man meat for some shift and shake?

Well, the file did say Martstellar had gone soft. All that oversexed living down on The Sixty. Not to mention the guy she’s with is packing heat. The fat man said she was low on credits. Maybe she’s looking to score another weapon. Whatever. Girl is a total loser, and she’s totally in Mu’s sights.

Now if only these two would take a small detour. Yeah, that would be choice. Perhaps slip into another bar. Someplace dark. Mu could just sidle up behind them and slit both of their throats with one speedy pull of that blade she took when they killed the fat man. Let both their bodies fall and take their eyes while the life drained from them, maybe take an extra ear each.

Oh, yeah. That would make things so easy.

Mu is about to update the others on her location when a personal audio message crashes in via her ocular.

Oh, who the—Now? Now? Damn it to hell…

The audio patch is from Mu’s grandmother.

“Bootsy, dear?”

Mu attempts to sound upbeat and cheerful as she taps in to respond.

“Hey, Nana…”

Mu’s grandmother is ninety-six years of age and has no idea what Mu does now. To be honest, it has been more than a wearisome inconvenience for Mu to conceal her secondary career and new identity from the old woman all these years, but Mu has always been afraid that if her grandmother knew the truth of what she now does for a living or how she’s changed her name it would crush the old woman’s heart. Mu’s grandmother was so proud of her when she played football for the South American Coalition, and after she retired from professional sports it thrilled Grandmother no end that she went back to school to pursue a professional degree. Her grandmother actually believes that Mu is now an accountant. A bit of a half-truth. Balancing ledgers for the powerful, only with a quick hand of death, all under her new alias, Loa Mu.

“I’m not bothering you at the office, am I, dear?”

Looking over and past the shoulders in front of her, Mu twists through the crowds with her eyes locked on her targets ahead.

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