Xenofreak Nation, Book Two: Mad Eye by Conway Melissa

Author:Conway, Melissa [Conway, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2012-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

Lo woke him up with a nudge to his shoulder. “Hey, Van Winkle. Wakey-wakey.”

Scott sat up, stretched and yawned. “Sorry about that. Haven’t gotten much shut-eye the last few nights.”

“Here you go, Boss.” Boardman passed him a thermos.

Scott removed the cup, unscrewed the lid and inhaled the welcome scent of coffee. He poured some of the dark brew into the cup. Normally, he didn’t drink it black, but he needed an infusion of caffeine to chase away the residual grogginess. He took a sip and said, “Strong.”

Boardman shrugged. “The stronger it is, the less you have to drink. Don’t want a full bladder when things get dicey.”

“If things get dicey,” Lo said. “But you also don’t want a shaky trigger finger. Moderation in all things.”

The coffee was so strong it was almost thick. Scott took one more sip and set it aside. “What time is it?”

Lo gestured to a holoclock on the dash at the same time one of the techs said in his ear, “Go time in two hours.”

Scott looked out the windshield. They were maybe a hundred yards offshore, and tonight there was no fog to obstruct the view. Lo handed him a pair of round-lensed spectagoggle tactical optics and he fit them over his eyes. There was no switch to activate them - to all outward appearances, they were nothing special.

Scott said, “Check,” and his lens display lit up.

“We see what you see,” one of the techs said. “Remember that if you have to make a pit stop.”

“Oh, you guys are high-larious.”

“You’re the one drinking coffee.”

Scott turned his head to look back out the windshield and squinted his eyes to zoom in on the beach. The remnants of the boardwalk and the buildings that had survived Hurricane Poppy were slowly deteriorating from neglect, but the building housing Bluto’s Bar and Grill was intact. The establishment would be closed now, or nearly so, but a party of Xenos, four men and two women, had started a fire in one of the battered metal garbage cans out front and were laughing and horsing around, clearly inebriated.

He shifted view to the alley between Bluto’s and what remained of the shack next to it. He could just see the wall of the building at the end of the alley, the same building in which he, Bryn, and Carla had encountered Nosferatu and his gang. The tunnel Fournier had built between that building and Bluto’s was, according to Padme, how Lupus would be entering Bluto’s tonight in order to conduct business with Phaco, the manager.

Lupus had traveled in the dark of night ever since Scott had known him. With the face of a wolf, he couldn’t exactly move around incognito, so he used the cover of darkness to skulk around doing business for Fournier. He would not be easy to bring in. He’d been Army Special Forces before becoming an XIA agent. He was the first to pose as a member of the XBestia, and the first to go missing. Padme

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