Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 31
Zikabar hurried down another corridor to yet another conference room, reaching it as the agent at the front began talking. Going over the now even dozen cardinal murders across eight countries. With her an overweight badger added details, his accent...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 30
The space was bland, not even a room, simply a place for them to talk privately. The man before Damian was a deer with a regal demeanor. "We have removed six more of the cardinals," he said, "which brings our forces, through the men whose...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 29
A small part wondered why the police wasn't chasing me as I sped and ran red lights through the city. The small part that contained all the emotions my fear and anger had compressed in a corner of my mind to make more space for themselves and all the...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 28
"Anything?" I asked over the comm. The address Stefan gave me was a dilapidated apartment building with boarded-up windows doors, except for the one in the back. "You tell me where the holes are in the walls," Tom replied, "and I'll look through...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 27
The world barely existed as it moved around me. Magic wasn't common. In fact, it was quite rare, except for where it concentrated. In Denver that was Steel Link, Max's house, and to a lesser degree, Martin's. The rest of the time, when I was out...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 26
"Sir?" The receptionist came over his internal line, "There's a Detective Flint Sagan here to see you?" Zikabar nodded to himself. "Send him up." It had been two days since Denton told him to expect a call from the detective, he's wondered what...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 25
"I swear, Brislow, you picked this place just to make my life difficult." I smiled at Tom's annoyed tone from the earpiece. "This kind of meeting is always better down in a public place, you know that." "Sure, but couldn't you have picked...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 24
Damian tilted an ear as the cheetah stormed out of the locker room and through the lobby. The way the men he passed sniffed the air in his wake put context to the matting in his fur. The tiger pulled what he'd kept in his back pocket and let the old...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 23
"Yes, he's fine," I stated, looking at the work happening through the whole where my door would eventually be back. Three days and the lobby was mostly back to what it had been. The counter was now reinforced steel, made to look like wood. When Louise...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 07
The noises as Damian got off the bus were deafening. The silence was one of the rare thing he missed from his time being incorporeal. His ability to go anywhere he had an agent and interact with the world through them was another. The insanity,...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 06
I let out the breath and knocked. "Si?" the response came, muffled by the door. I turned the handle with a shaking hand. Seeing her on the hospital bed, eyes going from quizzical to fearful, was nothing like when I'd walked into her room...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 05
"Shouldn't we go home and sleep?" Marcus asked as they entered the elevator? "You barely slept during the flight back." Zikabar looked at his husband, vibrating with excitement. "How can you think of sleep at a time like this?" "Because I...