Ricochet Through Time (Echo Trilogy Book 3) by Lindsey Fairleigh

Author:Lindsey Fairleigh [Fairleigh, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-19T05:00:00+00:00

26

Watch & Learn

There was nothing I could say or do to make Nik leave. Sure, I could’ve packed up and left to watch the video files elsewhere, but I had little doubt that he would follow me. It wasn’t like I hadn’t anywhere else to go, anyway.

“Just don’t break anything.” I watched him through the beaded curtain while I fished the thumb drive out of the zippered pocket inside my bag. “And don’t turn on the lights,” I added as his hand hovered over the switch on the wall to the right of the doorframe. “I don’t want anyone thinking we’re open.”

He lowered his hand. It wasn’t like he needed any light, anyway. He was a Nejeret; he’d be able to see more than well enough once his eyes adjusted to the dimness.

“Would it be so bad—people thinking you’re open?” he asked.

I pulled out a chair and sat—not my mom’s vintage violet armchair, but the other, smaller padded chair clients used to use during their readings. It was where I always used to sit when I was there after school, doing homework or playing on my phone when I wasn’t covering for my mom out on the shop floor.

“We’re not—the shop isn’t open.” I turned on the tablet. “It’s probably in some sort of legal limbo now, anyway.”

“It’s not.”

I stared at him through the curtain. He tossed his long, black leather jacket onto the checkout counter, then thumbed through the business cards displayed on the end, his back to me. “What do you mean?” I shook my head. “How do you know—”

“Dom transferred everything of your mom’s over to you.”

“I—” I swallowed and licked my lips. “What?”

“Seventeen.”

“What?”

Nik straightened, and he looked at me, his eyes glinting in the shadows. “File number seventeen. Watch it. You’ll understand better.”

I glanced down at the thumb drive. “You’ve watched them?”

Nik moved on to the outdated fliers posted on the bulletin board hanging on the wall beside the counter. “Marcus made the whole Council watch them all. His attempt to nudge the other Council members out of inaction.”

“It didn’t work.” It was impossible to keep the bitterness from my tone. If the Council of Seven wouldn’t man up and go after the Kin, then I’d do it for them. Actually, I preferred them sitting on their thumbs. It would keep them out of my way.

Nik’s shoulders rose and fell. “They’re afraid.”

I snorted. They’d be stupid not to be—and however slow the Council was to act, intelligence and wisdom were not things they lacked. Which apparently made me a moron, because all I felt was hunger for the hunt . . . excitement for the kill. “Are you afraid?” I asked Nik.

He laughed, a harsh, dry sound. “I’m bored.”

I plugged the thumb drive into the tablet’s sole USB receiver. “And what—you think following me around is the most direct route to excitement?” I still didn’t really know why he was here, other than the bit of insider information he had from Re. What did he want? “Awesome plan.

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