Back Lash by Devon Monk

Author:Devon Monk [Monk, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-10-28T02:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

We took Terric’s car. Dash drove. Terric sat in the front seat and I lounged in the back.

“So you two figure out the job in Canada yet?” I asked.

“We’re not dealing with that in front of you, Shame,” Terric said.

“Well, you’re not really dealing with it anywhere else either. How long before you both admit that you just want to stay here in Portland?”

“Job’s in Canada,” Terric said.

“Job’s anywhere,” I said. “They made this thing called the > Internet’. Real handy. Dash can do the game designing online.”

“Still not dealing with that now,” Terric said.

“Seriously, Shame,” Dash said. “We have enough disasters on our hands.”

“Speaking of which,” I said, “how much did you really tell Jolie?”

He shrugged. “I kept it general. But it’s not like I can pretend nothing is happening when we’re dragging your barely breathing body into the house and Terric has gone all blue-glow eyes and Faith healer hands.”

“So she knows he uses magic?”

“Yes,” Terric said. “We told her both you and I have remnants of magic in our bodies. We told her it was because of all the shit we went through a year ago. And no, we didn’t tell her exactly what that shit was. Just that we’d been a part of taking down some maniacs who had killed a lot of people on their rise to the top and who were doing very bad things with magic.”

“She let it go at that?”

He sighed. “Not for long, I’m sure.”

“And that’s when you and she tracked down the Russians and our boy Harold Thorne?”

“She knows her shit,” Dash said. “Got into records I would have had a hard time breaking.”

“Don’t get used to it,” Terric said. “She’s going back to Seattle after this.”

“I know,” Dash said. “And I think she should. Her family and friends are there. But if the Authority was still a going thing, I would have hired her in a flat second.”

“Maybe you can take her with you to Canada,” I suggested.

They both went silent again.

“Or not,” I said.

“What else do you know about the men who killed you?” Terric asked, maybe to remind me that I was only alive because he had taken pains to see that I was. “They had wands?”

“Wands in one hand, guns in the other. Mix of ages, mix of races. All male, I think. They killed the hell out of the guy who I thought was their leader. I’m going to guess there is an opening for upward movement in their organization.”

“You sure they’re not the Russians?” Dash asked.

I absently rubbed at one of the bullet holes over my heart. “I don’t know. The accents sounded American. But there’s...I don’t know. Something.”

“What something?” Dash asked.

“They were coordinated. Determined. Like they were used to working together in that way. It wasn’t the first time they’d drawn on magic with those wands.”

“Some kind of splinter group in the Authority gone rogue?” Dash asked.

“Or a group from outside the Authority,” Terric said. “Government?”

I shook my head. “I don’t think it’s government.

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