Time (Out of the Box Book 19) by Crane Robert J

Author:Crane, Robert J. [Crane, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ostiagard Press
Published: 2018-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

23.

Harry didn’t wake up, and there wasn’t much we could do to make him. “I think we need to move him,” I muttered.

“Yep,” Kat said. We were both leaning over him, me trying to avoid even brushing against his skin anywhere he didn’t have clothing to protect him. “Especially without anyone to act as lookout, a cop could come wandering into the alley any minute now, and we’d have to explain half-dead Harry, assuming the guy even understood English.”

“You speak Japanese, Kat,” I said, a brief flash of annoyance welling back up. It brought up the very shallowly buried memory of our recent flashback in time to her and Harry having a baby together. Talk about excavating some confusing-ass feelings in me, especially given that it looked like that had happened decades before I was born.

Strangely … this did not spur my jealousy any less. Who ever said emotions had to be logical? Because that person was a liar.

“Oh, that’s right,” Kat said. “I keep forgetting. It’s not like I even knew that until today!”

“Feels like you should have realized that before now,” I said, grabbing Harry by an arm as she did the same. Thank goodness he was still wearing the same long-sleeved shirt he’d started with in Oregon. It was a little less necessary here in Nagasaki, but not much. More probably, though, he had kept it on because his current girlfriend was a succubus. “Like … you never heard people speaking Japanese and realized, ‘Hey, I know what they’re saying’?”

“Maybe I did,” she said, taking up position under his other arm as we lifted Harry up, shoulder bag still on his back. He was an easy lift between the two of us and our meta strength, but a little awkward if it was just one of us trying to drag him along. Kat was taller than me, but she wasn’t exactly WNBA huge. Her main advantage in the body department over me was those willowy limbs and her very natural curves. Albeit lacking much of an ass, she still seemed to have that hourglass shape most men desired. “Maybe I heard them speaking Japanese and automatically translated it without realizing it.”

I tried to shake this bit of nonsense out of my head. “This sucks without Harry to help tell us what to do next.”

Kat snickered. “Oh, now you need a man to tell you what to do? What the hell happened to Sienna Nealon?”

“She got her ass kicked by a bunch of prisoners, framed for a crime she committed that was actually self-defense, chased by—”

“Yeah, I know literally what happened to you,” Kat said, “because I’ve been there for most of it and watched the rest from a distance. I was just making a joke.”

“Sorry,” I said after a moment, as we dragged Harry around a bend in the alley. I could see another road ahead, but this one was less trafficked than the one the cabbie had taken us on before turning down this way. There

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