Tek Vengeance by William Shatner

Author:William Shatner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781453286807
Published: 2012-10-12T20:36:00+00:00

26

GOMEZ, CARRYING A SINGLE suitcase, made his way through the crowded main building of the Berlin Skyport. He was whistling softly, smiling now and then at a narrowly avoided collision with someone.

He was a hundred or so yards from Gate 227, when the overhead speakers announced, “Last call for Skyliner Flight S-09 for Bern, Switzerland. Boarding at Gate 227.”

Kicking up his pace, Gomez hurried to the gate in question. “Good afternoon, chiquita.”

Jenny Keaton, arms folded, blackbooted foot resting on the smallest of her three suitcases, was standing close beside the gate. “Didn’t I mention earlier, Gomez, that I really don’t like to be kept waiting?”

“You did, sí,” he acknowledged while showing his ticket to the silverplated robot at the gate. “The reason I remember that is—because I treasure every single word that falls from your lovely lips and I preserve them in the scrapbook of my memory.”

“You truly are full of crap,” observed the Internal Security Office agent. She nodded down at her luggage. “Could you, maybe, lend a hand with some of this?”

He grabbed up two of them. “I had assumed you were too fiercely independent to want help of any kind.”

Following him up along the boarding ramp, Jenny said, “Why are you making those annoying groaning noises?”

“Oh, it’s nothing, bonita,” he replied. “Ever since I strained my back lugging around those dazed goons for you, the lifting of several hundred pounds of superfluous baggage tends to cause me dreadful pain. But don’t let it bother you.”

“You’re worse than the reports say.”

“I strive to be, sí.”

A pair of pretty blonde android attendants welcomed them aboard and guided them to their seats midway in the skyliner.

After the luggage was stowed, Jenny settled into a window seat. “There’s something I’d like to discuss with you, Gomez.”

He was rubbing at a spot low on his back. “Go ahead.”

“It’s about Cardigan.”

“If you have any questions about Jake, ask Jake.”

“I simply don’t think the man should be working on this case.”

“The way I understand it, you don’t think I should be either.”

“But you’re simply an annoying nitwit,” she told him. “Cardigan, though, is much too emotionally upset to be at all objective about—”

“I’ve worked with Jake, off and on, for a long time,” he told her. “He’s got a temper, sure, but he’s a damn good investigator and—”

“You know it’s standard practice to take an agent off a case that has anything to do with someone he was closely involved with.”

“That’s not the way the Cosmos Agency does business,” he said. “And now, in the interest of smooth sailing, I suggest that you quit nagging and change the topic.”

“I’m not a nag,” she argued. “Anyone with more than a peanut for a brain would realize that. Making useful suggestions doesn’t—”

“Cease this,” said Gomez quietly.

Jenny eyed him for a few seconds, then turned away to stare out the window.

The gaunt young man in the long black overcoat stumbled.

Jake, the slip of paper clutched in his hand, was a half block behind him. He slowed now, waiting for the young man to regain his balance and continue on his way.

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