Kiera Hudson & The Lethal Infected by Tim O'Rourke

Author:Tim O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwoodgreys
Published: 2014-12-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“I told you this was a dumb fucking idea,” Murphy said, coming from Ravenwood’s study and into the hall. “You could have got us all killed.”

“It would have gone okay if someone…” Potter started.

“I’m sorry, but you must be confusing me with someone who actually gives a fuck in anything you’ve got to say,” Murphy said, limping across the floor toward the staircase.

“You don’t understand,” Potter said, gripping his friend’s arm. “Someone tried to kill Sophie.”

“She will die,” Hunt said. “It’s just a matter of time.”

Hearing this, I stepped out of the shadows and toward the others. I stood to one side of them, but close enough to hear. I knew my eyes were still red-raw from the tears I had spilt at learning that Sophie was carrying Potter’s child.

“Who did this?” Murphy snapped, looking at Hunt then back at Potter.

“If I knew that, the fucker would be dead already,” Potter said.

“Don’t you think there has been enough violence for one night?” Hunt cut in. “This should be reported back to the agency – back to Lois Li.”

“Have you lost you tiny fucking mind?” Potter asked. “Or perhaps you want to go and explain how you’ve screwed up here tonight?”

“I screwed up?” Hunt balked. “The bottles were switched.”

“You should have kept that bottle of black stuff under lock and key,” Potter snapped at him. “You shouldn’t have let it out of your sight.”

“I thought it was quite safe in my laboratory,” Hunt defended himself. “How was I meant to know that someone would want to switch the bottles and kill Sophie?”

“Well, someone wanted to,” Murphy said, taking his pipe from his pocket and thumbing a mound of tobacco into the bowl.

“But who and why?” Hunt asked.

“That’s what we’re gonna find out,” Potter said.

“How?” Hunt asked. “There are no clues.”

Slowly, Potter turned and looked at me. “There’s always clues – isn’t that right, Kiera Hudson?”

“Do you really expect me to help clear up this mess you’ve created?” I asked him, unable to believe his nerve. “I told you it was dangerous.”

Coming back across the hall, Potter took me by the arm again, steering me back into the shadows beneath the broad staircase. “I told you I had no choice,” he said just above a whisper.

I suspected by the level of his voice, and the fact he had moved us away from Murphy and Hunt, they didn’t have any idea that Sophie was pregnant with his child. Why had he told me and not them? As far as I knew, in this world he was my boss and I was just the office eye candy. It was the others who were his friends – not me.

“I can’t help you,” I told him. “We have no suspects or motive, and I wouldn’t even know where to start looking.”

“Bollocks,” Potter whispered. “I saw you at work back at Bastille Hall. You were like a freaking bloodhound once you had picked up the scent.”

“There is no scent here,” I said. “And besides, I’m not a part of this.

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