Soul Fraud by Andrew Givler

Author:Andrew Givler [Givler, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Novel of the Debt Collection
Publisher: Sad Seagull Publishing
Published: 2022-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The sun was already beginning to peek its fiery little head above the horizon as we made our way back onto the highway in Alex’s white minivan. After some discussion, we decided we needed to lie low for a bit. Whatever raid we were going to attempt on the Lazarus laboratory would have to wait for the cover of night. Confident as Orion might be, even he wasn’t bold enough to charge in during broad daylight. I reluctantly agreed, desperate to get Megan back, but even my desperate self could see the wisdom in the Nephilim’s words.

Orion had us drop him off at a public parking lot. He walked quickly to a sleek black motorcycle and swung his leg over it before glancing at Alex and me, perched like a knight on his noble steed.

“Stay together and keep your head down,” he instructed. “We’ll meet tonight at dusk.” Without another word, his bike roared to life, and he shot out into the street like an arrow. He wasn’t wearing a helmet, but I guessed that wasn’t as essential to someone like him. He was a lot less fragile than the rest of us.

Alex offered to let me hang out at his house, and I gladly accepted. I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting in my apartment with its broken window and breaking relationships right now. My anxiety was already running on overdrive.

Alex’s home was somehow even more run-down than mine. He rented some brick house in the suburbs not far from me. His building could have used some paint, and at least one of the shutters on his windows was hanging on by a thread. By the time he parked in the driveway, the sun was fully above the horizon, its judgmental gaze bearing down on me for staying up all night. I felt like I was dying of thirst.

We dragged ourselves through the front door, and I plopped down on the first chair I saw like an exhausted puppy after a walk. The inside of the home was exactly what I expected it to be. It wasn’t dirty, but it was messy. Books, comics, and various papers covered every surface in sight. Movie posters from many different decades hung on most of the walls, from a black-and-white Three Stooges poster to a modern superhero film; his taste seemed to span the breadth of cinema. Which made sense since this was the bachelor pad of a man who had been alive for at least two centuries.

Alex made it a few steps farther before he threw himself onto an old red couch that was probably older than me, landing on top of a stack of magazines and comics. Unlike the Princess and the Pea, he didn’t even seem to notice. Maybe if the princess spent more time running from demons, she would have been able to sleep no matter how many vegetables were under her mattress. Except, you know, for the nightmares.

“Sorry I’m taking your bed,” Alex said, starting out of the exhausted silence we had settled into.

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