Avalanche: Book Five in the Secret World Chronicle by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781481483223
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2018-08-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

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Forty-Six and 2

Dennis Lee, Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin

I thought I knew Vickie. I soon discovered I was wrong. I had completely underestimated her.

Then again, maybe all along it had just been that she had underestimated herself.

The door to Red’s quarters was plastered with police tape. Rage gave Vickie the energy to blast it out of her way, gave her the energy to shatter the locks on the door, and force the door inward before she even reached it. She stalked inside and paused for a moment, breathing harshly, while taking a careful look around.

The place had been ransacked, of course. Jensen had made sure of that. Red wouldn’t have been stupid enough to leave so much as an incriminating note about an illegal poker game around, but that wouldn’t stop Jensen from trashing the place in a pretense of looking for something that he already knew wasn’t there. Her hands twitched a little with the urge to get them around Jensen’s neck.

She was furious. But fury had never left her helpless and blind. Fury had always given her a cold clarity and a sharp focus, had always driven all other emotions out. Fury let her see with the acuity of a falcon, and the calculation of a mastermind.

So where in this mess would there be something she could use? No hair, of course. But a bit of scarlet cloth made her ease her way towards the tumble of bureau drawers to pick out a red scarf among a pile of red scarves just like it: the one that was the most worn, the most frayed at the corners. Next to the bureau was the pile of books thrown out of the bookshelf. She carefully moved them until she found Franny and Zooey. That went into her bag with the scarf, and the box from the Med Lab containing a slide with a blood smear on it, and some tiny, tiny vials of skin and claw samples. Toothbrush, she thought. Of course, it might be at Mel’s place—which had been scoured clean of everything—but maybe he had more than one. She began picking her way across the mess to the bathroom when a shadow loomed in the doorway.

She looked over at it and began to shake with rage as “shadow” became “recognizable human.”

Jensen.

He scowled at her. “I—” he began. She extended her hand towards him, twitched her fingers, and he found himself unable to utter a word.

“You, you soulless bastard, will march yourself right back around and forget I was ever here,” she said icily. “Because if you don’t, I swear to you I will witch your junk next, and shrink it down so far you’ll need tweezers and a magnifying glass to masturbate.”

A look of disbelief was followed by a look of sheer terror as her fingers twitched again, and he felt the tingle she sent to his privates.

He fled.

Vickie took a breath, exhaled, and marched to the bathroom.

Toothbrush.

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Red Djinni awoke to nothing but a harsh white light.

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