Fallen Saints by Z.J. Cannon

Author:Z.J. Cannon [Cannon, Z.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Z.J. Cannon
Published: 2023-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I had a pleasant image in my head as Sparky and I trotted up to the Cleaners’ car together, while the Cleaners tried their best to figure out how they were heading home. I saw me and Sparky sailing down the highway together in our stolen vehicle, Sparky barking every time I needed to make a turn. Human and dog, working together. Well, mostly human, and mostly dog. Point is, I always thought man’s best friend was destined to be my enemy, seeing as dogs—the regular kind—could always smell the wrong on me. With Sparky by my side, could be I’d been wrong about that.

So of course, when I patted the passenger seat and told him to find Juliana for me, he wagged his tail, gave an excited bark—and took off straight into traffic, weaving between cars at a hundred miles an hour like a motorcyclist with a death wish.

I cursed under my breath as I watched him disappear into the distance. Good thing Lucifer wasn’t around to hear me take his name in vain, or he’d have one more thing to be pissed at me about. Then I slammed the passenger door shut, got behind the steering wheel, and took off after my dog.

I left the two Cleaners to find their own way home.

There’s probably not many traffic laws I didn’t break as I raced down the highway after Sparky, leaving a chorus of outraged honks in my wake. The good news was, this car was a major upgrade over mine. On the outside, it was a plain old sedan, aggressively boring. Everything from the design to the paint job screamed don’t notice me. But I was guessing it had some special modifications under the hood. It made every illegal turn without a whisper of complaint, and no matter how hard I pushed the engine, I had the sense it could have done twice that for me, easy. I could have done without the stiff breeze through the broken windshield, but that was a minor complaint.

Thanks to quick reflexes and a few lucky green lights, I kept the black blur in sight. Once we got off the busy roads and onto the run-down streets of Ashley Hill, I started to get an idea of where we were headed. All the businesses of any note had left this part of town decades ago. There was only one local landmark left, and it wasn’t one you’d find on any tourist map.

The city had built a new sewage treatment plant a couple decades back, and the land around the old one wasn’t worth enough for anyone to bother tearing it down. It sat there like an old medieval castle, looming over the buildings in its shadow. Probably part of why that entire street was all but abandoned now.

I made note of the place when I first moved to Jarvis. It was a prime location for doing things you didn’t want outsiders’ eyes on, but also out of the way enough that the local criminal elements didn’t bother with it.

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