Power Games by Victoria Fox

Author:Victoria Fox
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General, Contemporary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781472074690
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2014-06-28T23:00:00+00:00

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The rear fuselage was a mangled chaos. Its plummet from the canopy had destroyed what form it managed to maintain through impact, rendering it a wreck of metal and plastic. Shards of aluminum, molten at their edges, were strewn like abstract sculptures. Everything was a crumpled heap. It was impossible to believe that this thing had once been airborne, and that they had been inside it.

Kevin was rummaging through the remains. He had ripped strips off his T-shirt to wrap around his forehead. His torso was slick with sweat that gathered in his sternum and trickled into the waistband of his jeans. His shoulders were burned, the skin there flaking, and his hairless legs were pimpled with insect bites.

‘What happened?’ he asked. ‘What started it?’

Mitch Corrigan was tearing through the burst cabin, pulling his way to the back. His wig was skewed to one side and Kevin figured he had lost whatever pins were responsible for holding that road kill in place.

‘I don’t know,’ the senator replied.

‘The thing is,’ said Kevin, ‘I dreamed this. I dreamed the whole thing.’

‘Mm.’

‘Don’t you think that’s messed up? It’s like I knew it was going to happen or something … I should have said, but like anyone would have believed me …’

Mitch surfaced, swiping his forehead. He leaned over to catch his breath.

‘You OK, man?’ Kevin said. ‘You look kinda sick.’

‘I’m fine.’

‘Is it that flight attendant? Did you find her?’

‘Just leave me alone, would you?’

‘Hey,’ Kevin held his hands up, ‘sorry for asking …’

They worked in silence and that suited Kevin fine because Mitch Corrigan was psycho. He came across on TV so confident and together, with his career in movies and the White House and everything, but in person it was like he was jumped up on something. They were all freaking, but the senator was next level. Getting to the wreck had been nuts, with Mitch tensing and checking behind him at every crack of a twig, every snap of a branch. Kevin didn’t mind so much because it made him feel like the big man, which was funny since he cried at a spider in his room at home.

Home.

He thought of Joan, and Sketch, and the guys at Cut N Dry. He thought of his Little Chasers.

What were they going through? What did they think had happened to him?

The backlash would be unreal. Hard to believe that all those miles away the tragedy was coming to light. Kevin half expected to be able to hear it, a distant explosion. This was part of the same earth, but it didn’t feel like it. Here, it didn’t matter that he was Kevin Chase. It didn’t matter that any of them was anyone.

Those familiar things he had raged against were now impossible indulgences. Kevin had been a dick. He saw it plain as day. He had taken it for granted, every adoring fan, every one of his mom’s perfumed cuddles, every superstar he had met in his whirlwind social calendar on a power trip

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