Taurus Moon: Relic Hunter by D K Gaston

Author:D K Gaston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

When it came to the supernatural, time was definitely not relative. One week may sound like a ridiculously short timeframe to find an ancient artifact lost for thousands of years. But in the unnatural world I worked within, one week could literally mean years in the natural world. If Albert Einstein knew what I knew, he’d have given up science and spent the remainder of his life hiding in the deepest, darkest hole he could have found. Not everyone was cut out to know the truth about the world. In my case, that truth came at a high price.

After leaving Uno’s office with a million dollars, most folks might have been a bit paranoid. That was a lot of cash and there were a hell of a lot of desperate and unsavory individuals in Detroit. But I wasn’t nervous. I could have been waving the million in the air with both hands, like pom-poms, and no one would have touched me. For the time being, I was under Uno’s protective net. If anyone even considered trying to rob me, they would have been dead before the sun rose the next morning. And if the robbers happened to already be dead, then I didn’t even want to consider what Uno would have in store them.

Stepping onto the street, I hailed down a cab. My senses were on full alert. Sigma was nowhere to be found and he was going to be a problem. Though Sigma currently worked for Uno, his true loyalties laid with the Assassins Guild. The Guild was made up of killers from both the natural and unnatural worlds. For thousands of years these paid killers lived and breathed its murderous Code of Conduct. Neither being in Uno’s employ nor my being under his protection would halt Sigma’s attempts to take my life.

Normally that wouldn’t have bothered me, but I was pretty much defenseless against a killer of Sigma’s measure. Yes, I had my retractable blade, but the assassin would definitely have more weapons to use at his discretion. Uno’s men stripped me of everything I had when they abducted me. The only reason they hadn’t found the blade was because of a wizard’s incantation that kept the wrist mound invisible and melded to my arm. To take the wrist mound off required relieving me of my entire arm, and unlike Sigma I can’t re-attach my limbs.

The cabby’s skin was as dark as night. He rolled down the passenger windows and the smell of garlic wafted out to me. When I bent down to look inside, he pointed a Desert Eagle magnum in my face. “I only take human fares,” he said with a thick Indian accent.

It was nearly two in the morning, and between midnight and dawn taxi drivers run into all types of strange and unusual characters. To protect themselves they learn quickly what elements or magic are lethal to whatever supernatural entities they take as fare. More often than not, the customer seeking a ride never attacks the driver and they pay their fare like anyone else.

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