Lost Gates by James Axler

Author:James Axler
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

“THIS WAITING IS really starting to piss me off,” McCready said to Ryan, leaning over him. His breath stank of old brew and smoke. His teeth were bared in a mirthless, bloodthirsty grin. “Might just be that I’ll get so pissed off and jumpy that my finger might just get a little itchy on the trigger. You know what I’m saying, Brian?”

Ryan smiled faintly. His head was buzzing from the opiate painkillers that Mildred had administered, and although he was aware of the menace in what the sec chief was saying, somehow it didn’t seem to really register as a threat.

“Big words. But you’re not a big man,” he replied.

Crabbe looked over from where he was standing.

“What’s going on over there?” he snapped. “What are you doing, Nelson?”

“Nothing, Baron. Just having a few quiet and friendly words with Brian here,” he said, ignoring the look of venom he got from Jak. If the albino teen got a chance, then the sec chief would be the first threat he dealt with.

“Good, good,” Crabbe said, nodding to himself. “I’m gonna need them all in good condition.”

He turned to Mildred. “So what do you reckon Brian’s chances are of being right for the next place he has to go to, Millicent?”

Mildred shrugged, keeping her eyes from making contact with the baron, her attention focused on her chron on her wrist.

“I have no idea,” she said at length. “If it was down to me, I wouldn’t let him do anything for a day or two, just to give that injury a chance to heal. But I don’t know why you’re asking me, because there’s no way that you’re going to give him that time. You’re not going to give any of us that time.”

“Then you’d better start hoping that Kirsty and J.T. find what we’re looking for this time out. Then Brian won’t have to go back in there,” he said, gesturing to the mat-trans unit. “Come to that, none of you will. Now, wouldn’t that be just fine?”

“Yeah, sure,” Mildred agreed flatly, knowing but unable to say that such an outcome could never happen.

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