The Voss Coin by A. B. Alexander

Author:A. B. Alexander [Alexander, A. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

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He arrived home a total mess. He quietly entered the apartment and headed for the fridge. He reached for a cold Powerade and drank ravenously. He was coming down hard from the cocaine, burnt out like a Formula One tire after a long race. The isotonic drink’s high salt content would help him replenish. The shooting in the club flashed through his mind.

“Et Decem,” what did the Buddha monk mean? He tried to warn me at the last second. That’s who is after me.

He picked up a small iPad that was resting on the kitchen counter and Googled it. Its English to Latin translation meant The Ten. But there was nothing more.

He finished his drink, threw the empty bottle in the bin, and made his way to the bedroom. Lucy was already home and sound asleep, her red toenails peeking out from under the duvet. The flashbacks of the rotating room disgusted him. He doubted that he had hallucinated too such an extent, it seemed so real. Utsukushii was there and he fucked her, that was a definite. That aspect alone was strange enough, and he was suspicious of everybody, including his own mind. He climbed into the white marble shower, washing away all the grime from his soul. The longer he showered, the more he felt he couldn’t rid himself of the dirt.

This is a special kind of dirty, the guilty type, and it doesn’t wash off the conscience so easily.

By the time he hobbled into bed, the night’s events blurred into a dream.

“Kevin, where the hell were you last night?” Lucy startled him awake in a fit of rage. “I tried calling you like thirty times and your phone was switched off.”

Kevin shot upright.

Shit, my phone and wallet are at the club.

“I went back to the office, something important came up. Where the hell were you, Lus?” He deliberately analyzed her reaction.

“I told you I was going out with the Jess. We had dinner at Giovanni’s and I came home. Why’re you acting weird?” She was wide eyed and fuming.

“Are you in contact with Steven?” he asked her blankly.

Her forehead creased and her mouth gaped in disbelief. “What does he have to do with anything? He writes me on the holidays, to wish us well. Nothing more. We’ve already spoken about this. You know how guilty I felt after our breakup.”

“Lucy, tell me the fucking truth; did you go to a club last night?” The rage building up in his mind was overwhelming, a volcano on the verge of eruption, stifling any rational thought.

She shook her head and pursed her lips. “No, I didn’t, what the hell are you talking about?”

Kevin jumped up from the bed. He was no body language expert, but her reaction had all the tell-tale signs of a liar. He grabbed her by the shoulders. “Tell me the fucking truth, what the hell is going on?”

She stared at him in shock, his reaction was out of character. She burst out crying. “What’s happened to you? I’m not lying, I swear to God.

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