Thrill-Kinky by Teresa Noelle Roberts

Author:Teresa Noelle Roberts [Roberts, Teresa Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: caper, spy, flight, art theft, aliens, firefly, exhibitionism, Science Fiction, adrenaline junky, Erotica, wings, futuristic
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Rita’s heart raced when she stood at the foot of the National Museum, looking at the crazy, irregular walls and the peaked roof. The only good news, she thought, was the roof was also irregular, following the same naturalistic aesthetic as the rest of the building. There were even vines growing on it, though she wouldn’t trust them as handholds.

That and the fact that no one seemed to be hanging around the museum. There must be guards inside, but they were probably few and far between and probably counting the minutes until they got off shift so they could go party. At least she hoped so.

So many things could go wrong. Xia was so much better suited for this. But Rita could do it, and there was no way she could hold off a trained assassin, let alone kill her like Xia bragged she could do. Hopefully she wasn’t just bragging.

Don’t think about that. Rita couldn’t control Xia’s part of the plan. She couldn’t control how the Blemondian and San’balese criminals would react when they found out their plot had been compromised, no matter how much she fretted about that, and about whether Drax or the others might get hurt. (She hadn’t gotten around to dealing with the fact she’d be down there too and thus liable to get hurt herself.)

All she could control was climbing the building, using Mik’s disrupter and a solar screwdriver to disrupt the alarm system, open the skylight, then get into the building to admit the others. So she’d better get climbing.

And once she did, her mind emptied of everything except the climb. No time to worry about other aspects of the plot not going well, no time to wonder whether Drax was safe, no time to think about Xia’s startling revelation, or if, under the circumstances, her friend might be a little too distracted to be as good at belaying as she usually was. Just one handhold at a time, one foot rest, one camming device secured to an irregular spot on the building’s face, carabiners attached to those. Soon, sooner than she would have expected, she ceased to think of the National Museum as a building, ceased to think of this as an illegal and dangerous job.

It was a rock face, like many others she’d climbed, and this was a climbing adventure, like the ones she did for fun whenever she got a chance.

Just like that day in orbit over Arcturus, once she got going, had been another spacewalk, another time testing herself to see how fast she could fix something in zero-G while in a bulky space suit.

Once she got going, it was just another game, not that much different than blowing off steam rock-climbing with Xia.

Her body knew what it was doing. Her adrenaline surged, pushing her when her brain tried to kick in and think too much. Handhold, footrest, anchorpoint for the ropes, climb, repeat. The poor lighting made it challenging. On the positive side, there was more symmetry to the seeming asymmetrical construction than it had looked like from the ground.

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