The Liching Hour (Bill of the Dead Book 4) by Rick Gualtieri

Author:Rick Gualtieri [Gualtieri, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Freewill Press
Published: 2022-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

I hit the deck, hoping everyone else was smart enough to do the same.

A second passed, then a few more, until Tom finally said, “Oh shit. I forgot about that. Sorry.”

I looked up to see surprise plastered on Sally’s face. “Um ... are you okay?”

After a moment she nodded. “Yeah, I think so. No thanks to dipshit here.”

“The wards on her clothes,” Liz said, looking like she’d had about ten years scared off her life. “It must be. Guess they’re doing their job.”

Tina for her part looked nonplussed. “Does this mean I can play with Aunt Sally again?”

“I guess,” I replied. “Just as soon as I kick your dad’s ass for scaring the crap out of us.”

“You said a bad word, Uncle Bill.”

“Are you for real?”

“Bad words are never good,” she replied solemnly.

“But Sally just said...”

“How about this, kiddo?” Sally interrupted, leaning down. “We can play together, but only at a distance. That way we don’t catch each other’s cooties.”

“Especially not Aunt Sally’s,” I remarked. “Because then you’d need a shot of penicillin.”

Tina chuckled. “What’s penicillin?”

“It’s medicine to keep your dick from falling off.”

“Silly Daddy! I don’t have a birdie.”

Liz shook her head. “I swear, I will never understand how child services hasn’t been called on any of you.”

She probably wasn’t wrong. Still, I turned to my friend. “You’re early.”

Tom nodded. “We called it a day. There’s some shit going on out there. The cops have traffic stopped in like a dozen different places.”

“Oh, what for?”

“No idea. Probably some farmer lost his favorite fucking sheep.”

“Maybe. You get those jalapeno chips I asked for?”

“They were all out. Barbecue okay?”

Liz threw us a piteous look before turning to Glen. “Where’s Zoe?”

“Oh, she returned to her duties after Tom arrived.”

“Is she still looking for Eric?” I asked.

Glen raised two tendrils in a semblance of a shrug.

With the small talk rapidly petering out, Liz proceeded to bring Tom up to speed on the plan as well as the risks involved. Go figure, but the retelling went a lot quicker this time – my best friend not being overly concerned with any details he didn’t deem sufficiently interesting.

“You understand what I’m saying, right?” Liz finally asked. “The risks should be minor, but they’re not entirely negligible.”

“What she’s saying, sweetie,” Sally added, her focus squarely on Tina, “is you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.”

Tina nodded, looking as if she was taking this far more seriously than her father. “Will it help save Mommy?”

“We hope so.”

“Then I want to do it.”

I turned to Tom. “What do you think?”

“Fuck yeah, let’s do this.”

Liz gritted her teeth, her opinion of the new Icon obviously not all that high. “This first part should be relatively easy – locating a Source we can hopefully utilize. After that is where it gets...”

Tom waved her off, though. “Not a problem. Tina’s a world class badass just like her dad. And if anything goes wrong, I’ll be there. All I have to do is wade in and boom! No more jizz pool, because I am a Source-closing motherfucker.

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