Tethered Twins by Mike Essex

Author:Mike Essex
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scifi, science fiction, dystopia, twins, tethered twins

THIRTY

I hadn’t wanted to leave Grace behind but she seemed in safe hands and I still had some trust left for March. With her back damaged there was no way she would be able to help us.

Us, I thought as I looked at Gabe. I’d heard so much about this man from Grace, yet I hardly knew him. Not really. Yet he had agreed to help me catch Faye and right now I needed an ally, even one labelled as a terrorist.

“So what do you do for a living Emmie?” asked Gabe as we walked through the backstreets of the city. The train was too risky now Tobias knew who he was.

“Don’t you already know everything about me?” I replied.

“True. But I was just making conversation.”

“That’s not fair. I know nothing about you.”

“What would you like to know?”

“Why was The Deck started? Did you always know Tobias was dodgy?”

“That I don’t know. I got recruited just like everyone else.”

“But, aren’t you the boss?”

“I was the 2nd employee after the boss. There’s someone else funding us, although he likes to remain private.”

“Who is he?”

“Are you listening? He’s a private investor.” he explained. “Rich enough to fund us but also rich enough that if anyone knew he was associated with us it would destroy his career and land him in jail. We operate outside of the law but he can’t do both. So he never meets us in person, only emails us instructions.”

“Have you ever met him?” I asked.

“Once, at the start. But I can’t tell you who he is. All I can tell you is he has hated Tobias long before he recruited me. He promised to pay me handsomely if I did some research on Tobias and that’s what led us to grow the team and, once we learned what he was up too, to target his factories. ” he explained.

“What’s his end game though? What does he want?”

“Destruction.”

When I heard Tobias speak about his company I had felt the same way. The man seemed obsessed with war and even in his pursuit to save lives, underneath that there seemed to be a hidden layer which hinted at something far far deeper.

I sensed Gabe no longer wanted to be asked questions and we walked the rest of the way in silence. As we walked I thought back to the events of that night. How Faye had caused Will’s death and how she could now hold answers that would help me stop the men who had killed him.

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Faye Galveston awoke in an abandoned building on the outskirts of Birmingham. The building had been left long ago, no doubt due to the wealthy moving into the heart of the city.

This had once been a small village, not divided by wealth but a normal, functional hub of commerce and community. As the boundaries of Birmingham expanded over time, they had eaten up small towns such as these and the wealthy had abandoned them while the outer edges of the city were reclaimed as homes for the poor.

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