Between Cases (The City Between Book 7) by W.R. Gingell

Author:W.R. Gingell [Gingell, W.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

You blokes, they took so long discussing everything that I was almost tempted to start eating the stuff on the coffee table even though I knew what it was. My coffee was long gone by the time they came to an agreement about what would be paid and the extent of the work to be done, and I was left wondering exactly when Zero had arranged all this with ’Zul the last two times I’d gone to him on Zero’s orders.

I mean, it wasn’t like I knew every move that the psychos made, and they left the house whenever they wanted to without telling me where they were going, but I hadn’t really expected there to be such a lot involved in the deal. I thought of my loose deal with Five-Four-One, and grimaced a bit. I hadn’t told Zero about it, and with this in mind, I doubted I would. I could already imagine the nagging.

The long and the short of it was that ’Zul would agree to dig into exactly three names and what Zero called their peripherals, and in return would be granted what sounded like a protected status. That made me grin into my empty coffee cup, because an Enforcer-sanctioned hacker was very law-enforcement-and-the-hacker stereotypical.

They finished it all up with a handshake, which would have been very civilised and human if it hadn’t been for the way the entire room went murky like water in a backyard pond as they did so. Interesting, but definitely worrisome.

I started gathering up the empty coffee cups more by habit than anything else, and as I came back from putting them in the sink, Marazul said to Zero, “I was looking into something else for you,” in a reminding sort of a way, his eyes flickering briefly toward me.

Much to my annoyance, this made Zero’s eyes fall meditatively on me, too. More annoyingly, he said, “Wait for me outside, Pet.”

“Okay, but I haven’t been fed, and I’ll chew through my collar if I don’t get fed,” I warned him, and went outside. There wasn’t anything else I could do—and it wasn’t as if I didn’t have ’Zul doing stuff for me that I wasn’t going to be telling Zero about, either.

Fair is fair.

I was a good pet: didn’t even try to listen at the door. Not that it would have done me any good. I felt the fuzziness spring up around the inside of the door as I pushed it shut, muffling the feel of the door from the outside, and knew that someone had put a bit of magic out to keep unwanted ears from hearing what they said.

I waited for Zero downstairs instead, listening to the sound of my stomach rumbling. It wasn’t that long since I’d eaten, but I had a suspicion that it was the vampire saliva still running around in my veins that was making me feel as though I needed to eat again. Maybe a rare steak would be a good idea for dinner tonight.

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