Serpentine by K.M. Mixon

Author:K.M. Mixon [Mixon, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

The apartment Dad got me into is very nice—not that I thought it wouldn’t be. It’s in a prominent-looking building at the end of Main Street, one with a doorman in the front.

Not that having him there makes me feel any safer. What makes me feel safe is the fact that I know a Cobra is lurking somewhere beyond the building. Likely, Sully has had to get a break by now, but I know they haven’t left me unattended.

The massive kitchen is empty and clinical-looking. I make a glass of water and then meander into the living room. When I got home, I took a few hours to eat the food I picked up on the way to the hotel to get my things, and then I settled my stuff into the space. I don’t know why I had. Hopefully, I won’t be here for very long.

Opening my phone, I click on Google and type in keywords that might pull up any newspaper articles mentioning Brax and Miles’s mom.

One reads, ‘Missing woman in the Twin Pines area.’. I click on it and learn all I can, which isn’t much. Miles told me before I left that she’d gone missing on shift. The local police thought she ran away, but nothing was stated in the article to explain why they’d think that.

I wonder if there’s more to their childhood than they’ve shared with me, but I don’t have the right to probe if they’re uncomfortable enough to tell me themselves.

I sigh and lock my phone, grabbing the remote as I click it on. The news comes to life on the screen.

“There are no leads on the body found in front of the Portland pub,” the reporter says, and I pause my finger that was about to turn the channel to click through for something to watch, “All that the Portland Police Chief will tell us now is he believes it to be gang-related. The victim wore a jacket with the Jackal’s symbol on the breast and back.”

I lean forward, letting my feet hit the floor to remind me I’m not dreaming. This is real life.

Flashes of the Jackal I’d met in the restaurant bathroom flicker through my head and my breathing speeds.

“We also know a massive explosion was reported in the area known to be Cobra territory, Jane,” another reporter sitting beside the first on the screen says.

“That is correct, Bill. Seems like, for the time being, the streets aren’t safe. Everyone needs to be careful out there.”

Explosion?

My heartbeat is the only thing I can hear pounding away in my ears as anxiety builds in my chest.

I rush to my room and rifle through my purse for the burner. The one I’d planned on reaching out to Miles on after my first day at Dad’s company.

His number is the only one in the recent calls, likely dialed by the man himself.

It rings and rings, but no one ever picks up.

I want someone else to call, but I don’t have anyone else.

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