Promise Me (Dave Travise Book 3) by Richard Dee

Author:Richard Dee [Dee, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 4Star Scifi
Published: 2020-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

With time on our hands, and what we had learned, or hadn’t, Irin started fretting about her family again. I tried to convince her that it wasn’t all about me, that I wasn’t trying to avoid finding her family.

And then we had the message. Myra had been trying to hook up to the local network. When she eventually managed it, she found a data packet from Evers on Jintao. Irin was excited and apprehensive as she opened it on the screen.

‘I found Costa, and your family,’ he said, ‘he’s with a Villiars manager called Malkin. I’ve attached contact details to this packet. I can’t tell you the name of the world, it doesn’t have one yet. Villiars would fire me for what I’ve told you already. You might not be able to reach him; I’ve tried and only got a brief call. I didn’t speak to them, but I was told by this Malkin that they were all OK. They’re busy, he said he’ll be in touch, he has all your details. The thing is, their comms relay is overloaded with company traffic, so it could be a while. I hope that helps. Evers.’

Irin was so relieved, after all the days of worry, you could see her relax, we tried to call the number ourselves but it was unobtainable. After what we had heard, we didn’t feel like going into town, we had plenty of supplies and the port provided us with a top-up of fresh water and some food. I asked about payment and I was told that it had all been taken care of. I instructed Myra to keep trying the number; Irin recorded a data packet and uploaded it. Myra could send it once we had a connection, even if she couldn’t get a full voice link.

After three days of doing nothing, we had a visitor. The intercom buzzed from the ramp, whoever it was had not come on board. We had been left alone, as Strachen had said we would be. I walked down the ramp and Strachen himself was waiting outside, the boy was nearby, bag in hand, kicking through the floss. “Dolmen says hello,” Strachen said. “He’s passed a message along to Rixon, he’s off-world just now. He said that you might as well get back to your own space, he’ll be in touch with you when he can.”

His phone rang. “Hang on a minute,” he said, looking at the screen. He pushed a contact, the ringing stopped. “Old girlfriend,” he grinned. He put the phone back in his pocket and held out his hand.

“Goodbye, Dave,” he said, as we shook. “Dolmen’s told me all about you. I’m impressed; you’re not what I thought. You’d not be an easy man to kill. Maybe we’ll meet up again someday.”

I said goodbye, shut the ramp and headed to the wheelhouse. “What did he want?” asked Irin.

“We’re going home, Rixon’s not here. He knows about us, he’ll be in touch. Myra, start the departure routine.”

“So we’re no wiser about Rixon or any of it?”

“But we are,” I said.

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