Tomorrow's Gone Season 1 by Sean Platt & David W. Wright

Author:Sean Platt & David W. Wright [Platt, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone

Thirty

Slum Lord

Slum Lord stood naked in the red glow bleeding from The Baxter’s blinking sign outside his bedroom window, staring out at the rainy night and the street below. It was after midnight and the weather was poor, but the world was still alive with motion and noise, people getting drunk at the bars, music radiating from the clubs, heavy traffic in and out of the brothels.

The Slums never slept, and thus rarely went quiet.

Sasha, however, was asleep in bed behind him.

Sebastian felt jealous. His mind was spinning with an abundance of things left unsettled. He didn’t like uncertainty and loathed too many variables.

He had to be careful if he was going to take out Hobarth. He needed to know who of The Six was allegiant to the pimp and whom he could count on.

He donned a suit and left his room, heading downstairs to the bar where the crowd was listening to the dulcet tones of the sultry redhead known only as Miranda singing alongside Old Tony’s piano stylings.

They were singing a classic from yesteryear, though Sebastian wasn’t sure of its name. The sense of nostalgia was heavy, regardless.

Funny, he thought, walking through the bar and to the kitchen’s entrance, how I’m nostalgic for a world and time that never embraced me.

But it wasn’t the period he missed so much as his younger sister, Corrina. She was fourteen, three years younger than him, when The Event happened. They grew up homeless long before The Slums had existed. She had been preyed upon by men who’d robbed her of her innocence while he was out trading cash for survival.

He saved up enough from prostituting himself to send his sister to a boarding school. She didn’t want to go, didn’t want to leave him, so he was forced to tell her that she was a burden that had been holding him back.

It broke his heart when Corinna left thinking he didn’t love her, or want her around. It broke again when everybody outside their corner of the world disappeared in an instant.

Sebastian had doomed rather than saved her. And worst of all she died thinking that her brother didn’t love her at all.

The cooks ignored him as he opened the wine cellar door.

He clicked on a blinking red light, then descended the stairs, passed the many rows of bottles, and headed for the last wall-mounted stack.

He reached behind one of the bottles, found the secret switch, and unlocked it.

He slid the shelf aside to reveal a secret doorway.

He entered, replacing the rack of bottles behind him to conceal the hidden exit, then turned on a light and descended more stairs.

Beneath The Baxter Hotel was a series of tunnels used during prohibition by smugglers. Most of the tunnels had been closed off decades ago by the city. But Slum Lord had found one that had been previously undiscovered, leading to a series of underground and unfinished railroad tunnels.

An entire secret network under The Slums that he alone knew about.

The farther down he went, the more the cacophony faded from above.

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