Deadly Departed: A Supernatural Thriller (Fletcher & Fletcher, Paranormal Investigators Book 2) by David Bussell & M.V. Stott

Author:David Bussell & M.V. Stott [Bussell, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Uncanny Kingdom
Published: 2020-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One: Together Forever

The Vengari were already through the ticket barriers and cutting off our exit. We weren’t getting through them. The best we could hope for was to find a way around.

I was searching for some way to wriggle off the line when a train pulled into the station with a raucous metal shriek. The carriage doors sprang open and vomited up a great flood of commuters, disgorging them onto the empty platform as one congealed mass. As the advancing scrum formed a wall between us and the vampires, I seized on the chance interference. Frank and I rode the tide, heads bowed, forcing the Arcadian to duck down with us as we manoeuvred ourselves to the other end of the platform. The Vengari fought a losing battle against the flow, desperately searching for their prey, but the chaos made us invisible. A quick cut to the left and we were heading for the station’s service exit with the vampires none the wiser.

‘Nice move,’ said the Arcadian.

‘Thanks,’ I replied, remembering our first encounter at the nightclub. ‘I stole it from you.’

We arrived at the service exit: a large shutter separating us from the street outside, chained and double-padlocked. The Vengari would find their way here soon, so we needed to get through quickly. Lucky for me, my corporeal companion had a knack for this kind of stuff.

‘Do the honours, would you, Frank?’

He wrapped his mitts around the chain and pulled it apart, sending a snapped link whizzing over my shoulder. With one hand he yanked the shutter aside and sent it screaming along its coaster. We shot through the exit like bullets from a machine gun, and off we went, moving as fast as our legs would carry us. The night was a puppy, but there was plenty to do.

The Arcadian was the first to slow. Despite keeping up the pace for a good half-mile, he eventually succumbed to a coughing fit that folded him in half. He looked so weak. So hard done by. I was having a tough time squaring the bloke coughing his guts into the gutter with the man who got the better of me twice. But then no wonder; all the evidence suggested the Arcadian wasn’t the ruthless killer Tali sent me after. That she’d made that man up. And I had a good idea why. Hell, I bet even Frank did.

‘She wants you dead so the pair of you can be together, doesn’t she? That’s why she hired us.’

The fae stopped coughing but said nothing. Even now, after everything Tali had put him through, he was loyal to her. Even after she sentenced him to death, he still loved her. He was on his own there. Tali lied to us—set me and Frank on a bogeyman that didn’t exist. She was so desperate not to suffer in limbo alone, so keen to see her lover dragged through the grey veil with her, that she pretended to be the wronged party, the hooker with the heart of gold who died at the hands of another cruel customer.

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