The Worst Spies in the Sector by Skyler Ramirez

Author:Skyler Ramirez [Ramirez, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

A New Approach and a Fantastic Failure

“I’m hungry,” I announce as we finish our latest full circuit around the casino floor.

“Really?” Jessica says next to me. We’re arm-in-arm again; it was slowing us down way too much to have to stop when she got hit on every five meters. “How can you even think of food at a time like this?”

“I can always think of food,” I say, and then drag her toward one of the many restaurants placed around the edges of the casino. This one is a bar and grill, and I feel Jessica pull against me as we near it. By our ship’s clock, it’s breakfast time. By Rishi’s, it’s just after the lunch rush, and the place is only half full.

“No, Brad, this is not the time,” Lin says harshly, and I’m a little disappointed. Does she really think I would drink again right in front of her? No, I’d only do that behind her back.

“Relax,” I tell her, though Carla used to tell me that was one of five words a man should never say to a woman. But I’m a slow learner, and Carla isn’t here. She’s with Clarington, hopefully crying into his pudgy shoulder about my death.

I shake off thoughts of my ex-wife. It’s easy to do that with Jessica Lin on my arm. “Relax,” I say again. “I’m not going to drink anything. But you know what they say about station bars?”

She doesn’t reply, but her resistance stops, and she lets me lead her into the restaurant, where a cute little hostess, also in a toga, leads us to a table. After she finishes telling us about the day’s specials, I do my best to casually ask my planned question.

“Say, we’re trying to meet up with a friend here at the casino, but we can’t message him with the comm jamming. Any chance you may have seen him?”

The hostess looks at me with an expression that says, ‘Do you know how many people I see daily? I’m going to forget you exist the second you let me leave this table’. But I forge ahead anyway.

“You’d recognize him. Ex-Navy guy. Probably telling all sorts of stories about his time serving over in Prometheus. Ring any bells?”

“What’s he look like?” she asks. Shoot, the most obvious question but also the one question I can’t answer. Luckily, Jessica saves me.

“So, this is a little embarrassing,” she tells the hostess. “He’s more a friend of a friend. We’ve never actually met him. All we know is that he’s here this week, and our mutual friend said he could hook us up with some concert tickets we’ve been after for months.”

The hostess nods dubiously but doesn’t argue, and luckily doesn't ask the guy's name, because we don't know that either. “Doesn’t remind me of anyone we’ve had through here. Sorry I can’t help you.”

I’m about to shrug it off when something hits my shin hard. I yelp, drawing a surprised look from the hostess, but I

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