Opposition Shift: Beautiful Resistance Book 2 by Sarah Stone & Sean-Michael Argo

Author:Sarah Stone & Sean-Michael Argo [Stone, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2018-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

He should have been focused on the resistance, but instead, he found his attention straying to Una, and did not want to rise from the bed or disturb the beautiful creature that lay with her head upon his chest.

She’d woken not long after him, remained in position for a moment, then given him an easy smile that held nothing deeper than polite friendliness before rising to shuffle into the bathroom.

It wasn't the pleasant-yet-detached manner of the high price escorts he kept company with in New LA, and yet Hayden could not shake the suspicion that last night's embrace, even if passionate, had been somehow transactional.

She came out fully dressed, with her hair pulled back somewhat messily, though Hayden could not help but find it charming. She wasn't putting on a show any longer, and that certainly was different than he was used to.

Escorts tended to do their best to rise from bed and make their exit with the same allure and poise as when they fell into it. There was a casual familiarity to Una's behavior, and it made the slinger want her all the more. It was something he did not realize he missed, a connection between two people that had no place in the high-speed world of the Union elite.

Hayden pulled on the same clothes he’d worn the previous day, and his explanation of: “It couldn’t look like I was headed on vacation” seemed to be enough for Una, who told him they could probably scrounge up some spare clothes that fit at one of their safe-houses. They didn’t have the time to go shopping or the cash to afford Union level threads.

They walked. Una didn’t mention any specifics and just assumed they were headed to one of the safe houses or perhaps the HQ of the resistance if they had one. Standard defiance patterns were usually decentralized, with disconnected resistance cells operating independently of each other.

He kept his fingers crossed for a detour via cab. His feet were throbbing and he was well and thoroughly lost, but Una showed no sign of stopping.

Manila was a vast mega-city, typical of the low grade developing world. Very soon, Hayden had lost all sense of place as they moved through apartment stacks and narrow alleyways that seemed to have no central planning to their layout. They were somewhere near the city’s center, that much he knew, though a different part than Hayden himself had seen, with buildings that looked a bit taller than the haphazardly stacked habitation units and storefronts.

He found himself wondering if they might contain some form of functioning high yield network access. He was mildly disconcerted when Una led him down the stairs in the entryway instead of up and the fate of his last HQ jumped into his mind. As he descended to the basement, he already felt just a touch walled in. Surely Una wouldn't take the time and energy to get him liquored up and laid only to kill him in some basement Hayden insisted to himself, marginally succeeding in calming his nerves.

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