War Games (Behind Blue Eyes Book 3) by Anna Mocikat

Author:Anna Mocikat [Mocikat, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

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Finwick felt all the blood leave his face. He stared at Mama Legba in disbelief.

It couldn’t be possible… it couldn’t.

“What?” he asked like a total idiot. “Who?”

Mama Legba pushed her obligatory cigar from one corner of her mouth to the other using her tongue but said nothing. Instead she held a portable data screen in front of Finwick’s nose.

Finwick gasped for air.

The footage on the screen was obviously the feed from a security camera mounted outside the Underground. Black-clad figures were surrounding the building. Guardian Angels. At least fifty of them, maybe more. They weren’t dressed in plain clothes as they usually were when they were dispatched through the city. Instead they wore the Angel combat gear, armed with pistols and rifles. Their eyes were uncovered, glowing menacingly blue, like a swarm of evil lightning bugs.

Finwick pressed his hand against his mouth and felt his legs begin to tremble.

“No…” he whispered.

“Yes, I’m afraid,” Mama said dryly. “They’re here for you, shorty. You know that, don’t you?”

Finwick nodded, his mouth suddenly so dry that he couldn’t speak.

“What’s happening?” Sarah asked, jumping up from the chair. Coming closer, she caught a glimpse of the screen and shrieked.

Finwick woke up from his stupor and wrapped his arms around Sarah, hugging her close.

“You must help us! Please!” he pleaded to the underworld boss. “Please, don’t let them take us!”

The big woman looked down at him, smoking her cigar in silence for a moment. Finwick couldn’t tell what she was thinking at all.

“There’s nothing I must do, kid,” she said, and Finwick’s heart sank. “I would be crazy if I kept you here. They’d kill us all and set the whole goddamn place on fire.”

“Then, please, let us go!” he begged, trying to shove the crying Sarah past Mama Legba and her thugs. He knew it was pointless to try and run. They had surrounded the place and would probably storm it at any second. There was no escape. But at least he could try and hide Sarah somewhere. They weren’t after her. Most likely they didn’t even know she existed. He would leave her all the money he had on him. She was a smart girl… she would survive somehow.

But Mama Legba stretched out her massive arm and stopped them.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

He looked at her. “Please…”

“Must be your lucky day, shorty,” she said after letting him stew in his panic for a moment. “You and I just made a deal, and you work for me now. Mama looks out for her people, right boys?”

The two thugs nodded eagerly and mumbled in agreement.

“Besides,” she grinned, showing her golden teeth in their full glory, “I hate those bastards in black. This is my turf, and they can go back to their godforsaken pyramid and suck their masters’ cocks.”

This wasn’t the kind of speech Finwick wanted Sarah to hear, but right now he couldn’t care less. This was a matter of survival.

“You… you’re helping us?” he asked carefully, hope spreading inside him like wildfire.

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