On the Rocks by Mia Gold

Author:Mia Gold [Gold, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mia Gold
Published: 2020-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“Are you sure this is the right way?” the driver asked.

The taxi trundled through potholed streets dimly lit by only a few streetlights. Only about one in four of the lights worked, the rest either broken or destroyed. It was hard to tell for sure as Ruby craned her neck to look out the back window of the cab, but it looked like some had been shot out.

“Only a little further now,” Ruby said.

The taxi driver, an older man with a salt-and-pepper beard and worry lines on his face that were deepening by the minute, glanced over his shoulder at her.

“A few more blocks and we’ll be in the Maze.”

Ruby said nothing. She had been vague with this driver, because the last three drivers who had given her a lift had dropped her on the sidewalk after she told them where she wanted to go.

“You shouldn’t be in this neighborhood,” he muttered. “It’s dangerous.”

“I can handle myself.”

Just because I have boobs doesn’t mean I can’t fight.

“Famous last words. You can’t handle yourself in this neighborhood. Hell, we go much further and I won’t be able to handle myself. You got someone meeting you? I’m dropping you off at a house, right?”

“Just drive. We’re almost there,” she said, her irritation growing. He’d been asking “are we there yet” with the regularity of bored kids on a family road trip.

“Look,” he said, slowing the car. “I need to know where I’m taking you. This is too damn close to the Maze for my comfort. You do know what the Maze is, don’t you?”

Ruby sighed. “Yes, I know what the Maze is.”

“Whoever you’re going to meet could meet you in a nicer place, couldn’t they?”

“No.”

I seriously doubt they have blood sports in the basement of the Coast of Dreams.

The older man glanced over his shoulder again.

“It’s drugs, isn’t it?”

She wondered how he would react if she told him she was investigating the murder of a tourist so the cops didn’t frame her for the crime. That probably wouldn’t go well.

“It’s not drugs.”

“Look, I don’t mess with that stuff, but I know people, all right? They can get you whatever you want. Let me take you there. It will be safer. No extra charge.”

Ruby smiled. This guy reminded her of an older version of Kristiano.

They drove in silence for another block.

“We there yet?” the taxi driver asked.

“How many times are you going to ask that?”

“Are we there yet?” The taxi driver sounded almost as annoyed as she felt. Almost.

“Just three more blocks.”

“Three more blocks is the Maze.”

Ruby sighed. Here we go. “I know.”

The taxi screeched to a halt. A scrawny woman emerged from the shadows, wearing an overcoat that was open to reveal a G-string and nothing else.

“Get out of here, we don’t want you!” the driver shouted at the woman, who gave him the finger and disappeared back into the shadows.

The driver gave a quick look around to make sure no one else was approaching. Ruby did too.

“I’m not driving you to the Maze.

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