The Renegade by J. N. Chaney

Author:J. N. Chaney [Chaney, J. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Amazon: B08DCLT8M4
Goodreads: 54753665
Published: 2020-08-03T23:00:00+00:00

15

As far as I could remember, the operative had never explicitly said Ollie’s name. I’d just assumed my agent had sent him when he’d said he wanted to hire me, but I could’ve been wrong.

I wanted to know for sure if Ollie was involved before I put a bullet in his brain, too.

That would be too bad. I’d had high hopes for my new RBO agent, but if he was the one who betrayed me, I’d make sure he never got the chance to do it to anyone else again.

If he hadn’t betrayed me, though, Ollie had the connections to give me a place to lie low for a while until the heat burned off. It would give me time to come up with a plan, at least. If anyone knew how to make a dead Union operative disappear, it was a good RBO agent.

Per the instructions Ollie had given Sigmond when we reached out to him earlier, I ducked through a maintenance hallway that snaked behind the shops near Trinidad’s Trinkets. The bustling noise and bright lights of the main promenade quickly faded, replaced with the thud of my boots on a lone walkway and the flickering of a busted bulb down the narrow corridor.

Blank doors lined both sides behind the shops and glistening storefronts. It was mostly used for deliveries and back entry into the businesses. Most importantly, it gave me backdoor access to Ollie’s shop. If the Union knew I was still here, they could possibly be keeping an eye on the storefront. For all I knew, that was how they’d found me in the first place.

In the silence of the narrow hallway, the path only wide enough for a few men to walk side by side, I rested my hand on the butt of my gun and kept watch both in front of and behind me.

I didn’t like this at all. On one hand, it helped to be out of sight and out of range on the security cameras along the main walk. On the other hand, an isolated corridor was the perfect place for an ambush.

Any of these doors could open at any time, and any number of officers could pour out and intercept me.

It was a gamble, going to Ollie’s, but there wasn’t a lot of choice—especially not if he was involved in this. If I had told him to meet me somewhere instead of going to his shop, he could’ve just sent the Union Operatives and called it a day.

Even though going to his shop had risks, I needed to see him face to face because that was the only way I’d learn the truth .

As I reached the door with his shop number on it, I hesitated to center myself and prepare for the worst.

Better to be surprised with good news than with bad news, after all.

I was a full twenty minutes early, which was by design. I wanted to catch him off guard and get an upper hand on the situation, and the best way to do that was with the element of surprise.

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