Recovering by J Bennett

Author:J Bennett [Bennett, J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

My new friends introduce themselves as Penguin and Chain, and the three of us take a little walk across the parking lot, my gun keeping things pleasant as can be. I invite my captives to take the front seats of the Bug, while I slide in back. As soon as the doors close, I immediately feel less conspicuous, and it’s a hell of a lot warmer in here too. I keep my Berretta tucked in close to my side and trained on the dumbass with the chain belt.

I order Chainy to hand me Sir Hopsalot’s carrying case, and once I place it securely next to me on the seat, we’re ready to begin. Bird Brain and I do a bit of conversating about my sister. Apparently Zoo Pals was on the trail of a different angel. They crossed paths with Maya and decided to abduct her instead. When he mentions cuffing her to a chair for interrogation, my trigger finger gets itchy.

“Skip ahead,” I growl for their own safety.

Whatever Bird Brain hears in my voice makes him swallow and stutter on his next words. They cut Maya’s questioning short when one of their team members – Bear or Beard or Burt, whatever – got a hit on another angel. I immediately have a million and one questions about their angel detection system, but I stay on track with Maya. I’m proud when Bird Brain glumly explains that Maya pulled off an impressive-sounding escape, bagging the angel the team brought back in the process and basically saving the lives of all of these jokers. Not that they’re willing to admit it.

“Okay, she coffins the wings, and then what does she do?” I say, mostly to myself. Answer: Find Tarren, except my brother has apparently checked into the Fortress of Solitude and is completely unreachable.

The peanut gallery pipes up. “Bear doesn’t think she killed the other a…angel,” Bird Brain says, like his mouth has a hard time pronouncing the word “angel.”

“Course she killed him,” I snort at him. “Only a slobbering lummox keeps angels alive and tries to question them.”

Chainy mutters something under his breath.

“What?” I snap at him.

He sighs as if this were the most pointless conversation in the world, like he wants to talk opera but we’re just sitting here trading dick jokes instead.

“She didn’t kill him,” he says.

“Look, I know my own damn sister and…”

“Bear’s cameras have caught at least four of those soul sucking monsters around the city in the last two days. There’s a big group of them here dropping people like flies. He told your sister, or whoever she is, about it, told her to find the nest and take it out. She tranqed our captive; didn’t kill him. Finch saw the whole thing go down.”

“She’s not that stupid,” I tell him, but a knot is twisting in my stomach. None of it even makes sense. How could the Bad News Bears here have tripped over four sets of wings in the same town? The only time we’ve come across a group of wings that big was in Poughkeepsie.

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