Mercury Blues (Mercury Jones Book 1) by AJ Llewellyn

Author:AJ Llewellyn [Llewellyn, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Pele Press
Published: 2020-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The pounding stopped. The camera for the closet swam into view, almost literally. Reception was terrible but a masked man was running his hands against the wall of the closet. He’s looking for entry. Then poof! The closet camera stopped working. Mercury kept his gaze on the security monitor, but the three men had moved away from the living room.

I can’t believe my brother’s involved with this.

Mercury and Apollo had never been close. Maybe when he was five, and Apollo, four, but their parents had favored tow-headed Apollo from the outset. Something changed in their lives that Merc still couldn’t figure out, but both his parents became depressed and anxious. They gave up their law enforcement careers—she had been an emergency room phone operator and he had been a police officer. Twice, his father had been looked over for a promotion and quit the force. His mother also quit in solidarity. They got half the pensions they would have but began working on a shared fantasy of becoming organic gardeners.

Mercury shared that passion because he loved animals.

Apollo liked the idea of aquaponics. “It’s the way of the future,” he kept telling their parents. He’d been deemed an Indigo Child by an aunt who told their parents that Apollo was a special, gifted kid, with all kinds of supernatural abilities that were supposed to have come from alien races. Mercury still couldn’t believe his parents bought that crap, but they had, right up until they’d all moved to a farmhouse in upstate New York. And Apollo, age sixteen, set fire to his parents’ bed and tried to burn the house down.

I’ve been afraid of him ever since, even though it was supposed to have been an accident. A dropped candle. Yeah. Right.

He slumped in one of the two chairs that opened to single beds and gathered his thoughts. Apollo had gone on to a military school and then the Marines, where he’d distinguished himself in the war on terror in Iraq. Mercury had still not developed any sense of trust in Apollo.

As for his brother, Apollo was repulsed by the notion that Mercury was gay and had nothing but disdain for him. Apollo had been through three wives who all seemed to fear him and quietly vanish from his life after painful divorces. He hadn’t been in touch with Mercury for years until a phone call about a year ago when he said he was sick and needed a kidney. Their parents lived in Australia on some eco-friendly commune in Tasmania and refused to speak to either Mercury or Apollo, unless they agreed to join the commune.

The message Apollo left for Mercury begging to get his blood work checked for a possible donor match tore at Merc’s heart. He didn’t like his brother but also didn’t want him to die. The message produced shocking results.

Mercury had been unable to respond to his brother’s request because he was working undercover. He’d reported the call to his commanding officer at LAPD, who later told Mercury that there was no illness and his brother didn’t need a kidney.

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