Burning Sky by R S Scott

Author:R S Scott [Scott, R S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: -
ISBN: 9781543987270
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

“Morning, how are your heads?” Jeremy stands at the entrance to my hotel room main door. “Good times?”

I glare at a smiling Jeremy.

“Next time just knock,” I say, hiding my eyes from the brightness of the hallway.

“I did. Drink too much last night?” Jeremy says. “I hear you and Jessica are back together.”

“I’m not drinking like that again.” I look in the large vanity mirror by the entrance. My right cheek seems swollen, and my right jaw hurts. “What the hell happened?” I rub my cheek. “I have a black eye.” I examine my bruised right eye.

“Breakfast is downstairs in the buffet, so get you and your harem down there in thirty minutes.” Jeremy pats my arm and walks off.

“Jeremy.” I stumble out to the hotel hall. “Jeremy!”

He stops and turns. “Thirty minutes. Wash up, Keller. You look like surgical death warmed over.”

“Is Chris here? Is that done?” I yell to him.

“It is. You worry too much, Keller.” He knocks on the adjacent room door. “Karen? Rise and shine, Karen?” He gives the door several firm knocks. “Karen?”

“Wait.” I stumble back to my room. A naked Jess and a naked Hailey lay intertwined on the bed. I pull the top comforter over both of them. On the couch in front of the TV lays Karen. No shoes, no pants, and no shirt, but wrapped in a white sheet.

“Karen?” She awakens to me and Jeremy standing over her.

“Oh God, oh.” She grips her head. “Oh.”

“Karen, we have to be downstairs in thirty minutes. Karen?” I tug at the sheet.

“OK, oh.” She gathers her pants and shirt. “OK.”

We escort Karen to her room with her luggage still packed and sitting on her bed.

“The buffet in thirty minutes. Got it.” She closes her door.

“Thirty minutes.” I return to my room.

“Good times, Keller.” Jeremy smiles and walks away.

“My head.” I make my way back to my room. I note a blandly dressed man walking past me in the opposite direction. He turns to look at me then continues. “Fucking feds, that’s all I need is more of that.” I gather my clean clothes and head to the shower. My headache is paramount. I am very woozy as if still drunk. I stand in the hot shower contemplating the last evening’s events as well as the last few days’ more drastic events. We had a serious drunken night, the four of us. Hailey is not a drinker, but she drank, and Karen is rarely that enthused about eating fish, much less drinking a monumental amount of sake-soaked beer, but she did. Jess was also acting abnormally. I stand in the hot water with steam rising. I think of Chris and his plans to initiate himself into his clan teachings of shape shifting. I do not like the thought of that.

Normally there is no return from diving into the dark arts in that fashion. Men do not return from it to any degree of normalcy. The psychological trauma takes a terrible toll.

I conclude Chris is going to turn on us.

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