Set the Terms by Mia R Kleve & Kevin Ikenberry

Author:Mia R Kleve & Kevin Ikenberry [Kleve, Mia R & Ikenberry, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seventh Seal Press
Published: 2020-05-26T06:00:00+00:00

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Back at base, Rains watched Amos climb out of his CASPer and then rounded on him. He had been seething all the way back from the beach and had worked up a good head of steam.

“A madder fish? Amos, what the fuck were you thinking? This whole thing is impossible already and you’re making it harder.”

Amos stepped into his kitchen, checked on his cauldron, then reached into a cooler and held out a bottle of Abt to Rains. “Jack-son, you a city boy, no?”

“Yeah, city kid. The closest thing to country I got was songs on the radio, and those weren’t exactly my style.” Rains took a swig of the rich, dark ale.

Amos nodded and gestured at the beach with his own bottle “What you got down there is a hunter. He mad an’ he bored an’ dem Vee-tan-oo mess up his hunt, and dey pick his pocket, too. Sound like all dem crabs like t’ hunt. I bet he no admit it but dey sent fish home ‘for dey know it taste bad.”

Rains shook his head “Maybe, but you shouldn’t have—”

Amos interrupted. “Course I should. You say an’ no do, that be a problem. I say an’ no do, you tell ‘im I not know what I speak ‘bout and you in the clear to try something else. Sometime dem dice, dey gotta roll. Ol’ Amos and his boys been all over. We find you something. If we don’t, we buy you time, or you jus’ mad it no your idea, eh?”

Rains thought about that for a minute. He could hear Vannix in the back of his head telling him not to let his temper get in his way.

Just then one of Amos’s men clomped past the kitchen.

I don’t want to know, thought Rains.

Amos yelled at him. “Hey, Louie! You no see I talkin’ with the P-maker?”

Louie shouted back, “Sorry, boss, just coming off patrol. Why you call ‘im P-maker and not Peace-maker?”

Amos gave Rains a sidelong glance “Because, Louie, I seen ‘im drink!”

Rains choked on his beer.

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