Zenik by Abigail Myst & Starr Huntress

Author:Abigail Myst & Starr Huntress [Myst, Abigail & Huntress, Starr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Zenik

Jane was missing. Zenik flew into the bar, chest heaving, and scouted around. He took a deep breath and forced his Mahdfel senses to calm down and allow him to actually start thinking with his brain. Jane was gone. Someone had taken her. How could he locate her without any tech? How did he always know when she entered a room? Zenik inhaled deeply. Her scent was not here. He did catch a scent of something a bit familiar, something that somehow reminded him of home, but he couldn’t quite place it.

“You looking for a good time, sweeties?” a woman danced around him. She was yellow with bright pink hair.

“I’m looking for someone.”

“I know a good place to find people. For a few credits, I can take you there. It’s a stop in paradise, baby.”

He was wasting his time but he threw a few credits her way and then charged back out the door. That familiar scent still lingered but he shook it off and narrowed down his field of sensory to his life scent, to Jane.

There she had gone, down the street away from the shipyard and the bar. He took a few more paces in that direction and it was quite clear that he was right. Jane had gone that way and she was not alone.

Zenik clocked at least three other scents commingled with Jane’s. There was no tang of blood, for which he was grateful. She, perhaps, had gone with them willingly. Oh, his sweet deluded mate was never going to hear the end of this.

Further down the street, the trail ended. There was nothing but a pool of her scent and then it disappeared. Zenik paced. She must have gone into one of the buildings near here but there were five possibilities. Trying one might set off alarms in the others and place Jane in an even more dangerous situation. But she still might be getting herself murdered right now.

A bloom of the other scents pulsed at the edge of his range. The three with her were out and about again. Surely, he could get one of them to tell him where Jane was. An auto flat coasted by with a dumpster loaded on the top. Three unsavory characters walked behind it. The moment Zenik came running at them, they scattered and he was only able to catch one of them.

It didn’t take a large inhale to realize that this slug was not one of the three he was stalking, but their scents were still strong and getting stronger. He held the slug around the neck with one hand and lifted the lid to the dumpster with the other.

Inside, he found three dead bodies. Judging from their scents, these were the three who had escorted Jane to the Wine Merchant and soon after had met their doom.

“Where is Jane?” he growled.

The creature trembled and pointed.

“Where? Show me,” Zenik demanded.

The slug didn’t get the chance to answer before the building behind them exploded in a furious

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