Victor by Romi Hart

Author:Romi Hart [Hart, Romi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

14

Riley and her new friend left the minivan where it was and sauntered toward the Popeye’s. The guy swept the door open and bowed her inside laughing all the way. She could get used to this treatment. He didn’t act like she was a mutant bent on world destruction. He probably didn’t even know the New Breed existed.

He gestured toward the counter and they slid into their stools. He picked up the menu. “What do you want? You can have anything. Money’s no object.”

She blushed in spite of herself. “Quit it. You’re spoiling me.”

“That’s the idea. I have to tell my buddies I did the job right, don’t I? I’m having the crawfish.”

“Of course you are.” She scanned the menu. “I guess I’ll have the same thing. What the hell, right?”

He laughed and put the menus aside. He went to the register to order. That left Riley free to survey the place. A few families occupied booths across the room. The kids chattered and colored with crayons.

The guy came back and sat down. He swiveled around to check out the local color, too. A few people sat at the end of the bar. Two black men talked in low tones.

Like something out of a distant memory, one of them turned around. He faced the counter, but he didn’t stop there. He kept turning, turning, turning with impossible slowness. He rotated all the way around so he faced Riley and she saw him clearly.

The sight violated the whole illusion she built up for herself in the last few hours. She found herself looking at the shiny black face of Finn Weeks. She knew him perfectly well. She couldn’t mistake him for anybody else.

He shouldn’t be here. He couldn’t be here. He should be at the gas plant or else in the hunting camp. He couldn’t be here. How did he find her so fast?

He didn’t rush in to attack her. He just sat there smiling at her like she was his oldest friend in the world. He could be any ordinary man sitting at a bar waiting for his food. He didn’t even try to approach or talk to her.

The old guy pivoted around and blocked her view of Finn. “So was your mom mad about you ditching your boyfriend like that?”

“Huh?” She snapped out of her trance trying to understand what he was talking about.

“You said you broke up with your boyfriend. You said you had to ditch him in the bayou.”

“Oh! Right.” She pulled her head out of the clouds. “No, she wasn’t mad.”

She had to think. She had to get away from Finn before the cavalry arrived. She looked around for a clock. How much longer before the chopper came to get her out of here?

She had to play it cool until then. Once the chopper landed, Finn wouldn’t be able to do anything. None of the New Breed would be able to. They wouldn’t want to show themselves to the humans or attract unwanted attention.

Their food came, but Riley only picked at hers.

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