Return by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward [Ward, Blaze]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644701942
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

Twenty-Three

Oluchi

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Oluchi’s mom had said that about her son more than once, as he always tried to fast-talk his way out of trouble, instead of just accepting responsibility.

Thirty years later, he still didn’t do it all that often, but this was different. This was a couple of innocent strangers that were going to catch a ration of his shit for nothing they did but be born and be in the same room as him. At this point, it really didn’t matter that they also might be his meal ticket.

They hadn’t asked for the problems of Oluchi Pryce and his wandering dick. Ardna already hated him for giving both Leena and Fernanda someone more interesting to play with in bed or across the dinner table. Oluchi had seen the raw terror in the man’s eyes seeing Eha Dunham for the first time.

Nearly pissed himself in fear. With most people, that was a useful bit of knowledge. He should have known that Strav Ardna would over-react on this one. Should have been expecting trouble on the way back, since the man had gotten a several hour head start on whatever grief he had in mind.

“We’re going to need guns,” Oluchi turned to the other man in the back of the limo.

“Oh, I got guns,” Lazarus said in a calm, deadly, off-hand manner than froze the blood in Oluchi’s veins.

The stranger suddenly sounded just like a Rio Alliance naval officer, standing on his deck and getting ready to unleash a serious ass-whooping on someone.

Did the aliens have a warship out there? Something big enough and mean enough to come down here and blow shit to Kingdom Come?

If he was looking at the apocalypse descending, Oluchi really wanted to make sure he was on the right side. The other tycoons would be miffed, but not nearly as rageful as the eyes of this redheaded stranger.

Terrible things were coming.

“What do you need?” Oluchi asked.

He could find anything. That was his super power.

You want it? I know a guy.

“Can you use a gun?” Lazarus asked, those sharp, green eyes boring in now. “And I mean kill someone because he’s in your way, or stepped out of the wrong door, or you don’t like the cut of his suit? That’s where this is going.”

Oluchi shivered in spite of himself. You had to be hard and dangerous to make a living as a gambler. Sometimes, charming the ladies came with the gig. They required even more effort.

Lazarus looked like a man about to kill everyone he met for the next twelve hours. Oluchi had known a few of those over the years. Most of them had been ex-soldiers who couldn’t handle civilian life, and had gravitated to a life of brutality.

It never ended well.

Lazarus of Bethany might just kick in the door and shoot everyone in the room, from the raw anger in his eyes.

“I can,” Oluchi said simply.

No braggadocio. No hype.

Lazarus was clearly past any sort of showing off. Those two were just a pair of alien women that Oluchi knew.

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