You've Got Aliens by Fiona Roarke

Author:Fiona Roarke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nickel Road Publishing
Published: 2017-02-15T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“What!” Diesel growled into the device he’d pulled off his belt, easing back into the driver’s seat. Juliana also leaned away from the center console, disappointed that they’d almost, but not quite, kissed.

She looked at his phone. It didn’t really look like a cellular, more like a beeper. How did he have phone service here in town? Alienn must have some other way to communicate, like a closed or online system of some sort. Or perhaps it was an alien technology-based communication network ready to take over the world? Probably not. She smiled to herself and looked at him. He sure was easy to stare at.

Diesel’s eyes slowly closed as he listened to the voice at the other end of the line, as if the words he heard severely disappointed him.

“I’m busy. Why can’t you do it?” he asked. “Because it’s my turn isn’t a good enough reason, Cam. Like I said, I’m busy.” He listened a little bit longer. “Never mind what I’m busy with.”

She could hear a tinny voice from the other end of the phone line continue, but not what was said. “You know what? Fine. I’ll do it. Stop calling me.” He folded the device in half like an old flip phone and clipped it back to his belt.

“How come you have cell service?”

He looked at the phone. “Since we don’t have coverage, we have a closed system we use for truck stop employees, sort of like an advanced walkie-talkie system.”

“I see. I’d guessed alien technology.”

“Of course you did.”

She laughed. “What do you have to do that you don’t want to?”

“I have to check my parents’ house. They are traveling in an RV across the country. My little sister lives there, but she’s out of town at some sort of summer school thing, so one of the rest of us stops by every day to ensure everything is safe and sound.”

“Is this the house you grew up in?” She tried not to sound as wistful as she felt about the idea of visiting the home where he grew up with his vast number of siblings. She’d spent her entire youth wishing to be adopted into a huge family.

He nodded.

“Can I come with you?”

“Sure. Want to pop into the former speakeasy and look around first?”

“Tell me the story. What is this place besides a speakeasy?”

“The speakeasy was in the basement and rumor has it there was more than one escape route leading to tunnels that opened out in the forest yonder. But the rumored story I thought you’d be interested in was the upstairs portion, which in the early 1930s was a bank.”

“There was a speakeasy in the basement of a bank?” She was dubious.

“Great cover if you ask me.”

“Okay. Go on.”

“So the rumor has to do with an infamous duo of bank robbers, a couple who supposedly robbed the bank.”

“Infamous like Bonnie and Clyde?”

He nodded. “That’s the rumor. Folks say they robbed this very bank and got away with a couple thousand dollars.”

“I never heard about a Bonnie and Clyde bank robbery in this area.

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