Shift by Sidney Bristol

Author:Sidney Bristol [Bristol, Sidney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“What did he want?” Emery stared at the bit of space Tori had occupied. She was there, but he couldn’t see her, though he could recall every feature of her face, the tiny mole by her temple, the freckles that were too often covered with dirt. He hadn’t been able to hear everything Matvei had said to Tori. Hell, most of it didn’t make sense. He was hoping Tori could shed some light on what they were facing.

He felt Tori’s breath on his neck. She’d stepped in close without him realizing it.

“They’re probably going to keep me. Torture me.” She pitched her voice quieter, for his ears alone. “They’re still selling you guys to Evers’s people, I think. You could probably get away once you’re out of here. Somewhere between the cargo container and the parking lot. I don’t know if you could do it with Kathy though.”

“We’re going to get out of this.” He didn’t know how, not really. Not yet. But he would make sure they did.

“Emery, I need you to please give that message to my sister. Please.” Her voice was barely audible.

“Not unless you tell me why.”

She sighed. Her hands pressed against his chest and her head came to rest on his shoulder.

“My father is alive.”

For a second he had to ask himself if he’d heard her barely there admission, or if he’d made it up.

“What?” He canted his head toward hers.

“He’s alive and if Roni doesn’t tell him to stay away, he’ll die, too. I don’t want them to get me and him. Please?”

“Yeah.” What else was he supposed to say?

Nothing he’d read or heard indicated anyone suspected Alexander Iradokovia to still be among the living. It was a shocking admission.

Voices from outside the container broke the moment. Tori squeezed him tight as several loud people approached their position.

Tori squeezed him tight. Like she was saying good-bye.

Hell no.

They would get through this.

Metal scraped against metal as the door once more swung open. He blinked and shoved Tori behind him. Several people aimed high-powered flashlights in his eyes.

“Hands against the wall,” a new voice ordered. It was an older, seasoned speaker.

“Emery . . .”

He turned toward the wall and flattened his hands against the cool metal.

“I’m coming back for you,” he promised Tori. White dots swam in his vision from the LED flashlights.

“Who the hell is he?”

Emery knew that voice. Canales. The street thug stepped into the container and peered at Emery’s face.

Emery kept his gaze forward. Raibel Canales wouldn’t know him on sight, and that was exactly the way Emery liked things.

“This is the guy that was at the plant a few days ago. The one we followed.” That voice. Emery remembered it. It was the punk kid who’d made him at Greenworks.

“He matters. Bring him and the other two,” the faceless man in charge said.

Canales kept his gun pointed at Emery while the kid patted him down fast.

“You sure I can’t convince you to part with the girl?”

“Nyet.” Matvei chuckled.

“Can’t blame me for trying.

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