Sonny Hassell & Ais Fade (#4)

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.Tech pushed past Boydwithout seeing him and just as Boyd turned around he saw Sin disappearing into thekitchen.Kayla and Delsin were in view but neither of them seemed to be paying toomuch attention, as the crowd was especially heavy in the early afternoon of aparticularly gorgeous day.Boyd's gaze hovered briefly on the kitchen door swinging shut.Delsin, in one of hisrare moments of being an attentive waiter, seated Boyd in a smal table shoved inthe back.He was caught between a table of col ege girls laughing uproariously oversomething they were watching on a smal vidscreen and a large group of peoplewho, judging by their conversation, were some sort of book group analyzing theliterary genius of a book Boyd had never heard of.The background chatter was enough to drown out any solitary thoughts a personmay try to have.Delsin's brief bout of attentiveness waned the moment he got into a conversationwith someone across the diner, and after shooting him increasingly strongly-wordedrequests, Kayla finally picked up the slack and came over to Boyd's side of the roomfor orders.She was as polite as she had ever been, even in the past two and a half weekssince the party, although she didn't go out of her way to be as sweet as she hadbeen previously.After Boyd ordered his usual iced tea, she disappeared withoutanother word.While he waited, Boyd kept an eye on the clientele.There was no one who raised ared flag in his mind and there hadn't been in the two other times he'd been able tocome down to Annadale.Lately, his ability to get away wasn't as consistent as it had been.He had gottenhalfway down to Annadale a week and a half ago only to get a cal for a briefing andhave to turn around.The second time he'd come, he had only been able to stay forone night.Missions were heating up back at the Agency, with the backlog of cases put off bythe lockdown only now starting to be finalized in the Intel and R&D divisions andassigned to agents.Just as he was checking his watch to see how much longer it would be until Sin gotoff he heard raised voices near the register at the front of the diner.Kayla was nextto the register, and there were two customers standing beside her.Both were tall, muscular men in their mid to late thirties, and judging from their attireit appeared as though they were part of a sports team.There was nothingparticularly noteworthy about them other than the fact that the man standing a fewpaces back from the register had greyed prematurely despite the fact that he lookedto be the younger of the two, and the man standing closer to Kayla wasexceptionally muscular and had full tattoo sleeves.Neither of them fit the descriptionof the men who had attacked the girl from the parking lot, and they didn't fit theJanus profile, so Boyd had not paid them much attention until now.Although Boyd couldn't hear precisely what was being said over the din of the othercustomers, it was pretty clear from the overtones that the tattooed man wascomplaining about something to Kayla aggressively and that she was shaking herhead in denial of whatever he was saying.He jabbed a finger into her face andleaned closer, crumpling a paper in his hand and tossing it at her rudely while hisfriend looked on with disinterest.Boyd frowned at the scene and watched as Delsin finally realized what was going onand approached."This fucking girl overcharged me," the man snarled loud enough to be heard clearlyover the din.The noise level lowered at the exclamation, and Kayla looked around inembarrassment.Delsin appeared to be saying something in his usual sarcasticmanner and gestured at the man.Boyd couldn't hear what was said but whatever itwas, it didn't sit wel with the customers.The man gave Delsin a sharp, mean shovethat sent him slamming back into the hostess' counter."Jesus, what the hell is wrong with you!" Kayla demanded, turning to go to whereDelsin had fallen over."Fix the charge you put on my fucking credit card or I'l wreck this dump," the manshouted, and grabbed her arm to pull her back to the register.Boyd started to rise from his seat just as the doors to the kitchen opened.He'dhonestly been waiting for Sin to come out, and was surprised he hadn't sooner.There was no way that he hadn't heard the entire exchange from the kitchen,especial y not with his hearing.Regardless of the reasoning for the delay, if Sin hadlooked irritated earlier he was flat out angry now.He put his backpack on the floor with a thunk, let his apron drop next to it, andstalked over to the group in two, impatient strides.Kayla had already snatched herarm back, and the two men turned to Sin."Are you the fucking manager?" the tattooed guy demanded."Yes," Sin replied, looking from one to the other.His teeth were grit and his handsclenched, although he looked more aggravated than anxious for a fight."Now backoff before we have a problem.""Wow, that's how you treat customers, bro?" the grey-haired man asked with a scoff."Is that how your friend treats women?" Delsin demanded hotly.He'd gotten back tohis feet and marched back over to the men."You fucking asshole, I could cal thecops and have you arrested for grabbing her like that.Why don't you both just goback to the bath house and give us a damn brea--"The tattooed man cocked his fist back and looked fully prepared to cold clock Delsinin the face, but Sin grabbed his hand and twisted it backwards before he couldfollow through.Two things seemed to happen almost simultaneously: the guy'sfriend lunged at Sin but wound up being yanked off his feet and slammed face-firstinto the counter with such force that the screen for the register toppled over, whileSin used his grip on the tattooed man's arm to jerk him around with a distinctcracking sound filling the air.The screen fell to the floor with a loud slam, Kayla cried out in alarm, and thetattooed man shouted in pain.He made an effort to jerk out of Sin's grip andconfusion filled his face when he was unable to do so.Confusion turned toapprehension as his eyes met Sin's, and Boyd moved quickly toward the front of thediner as soon as he focused fully on his lover's expression.It was almost as if the violence had activated something in Sin that hadn't beenthere before.His face had that blank, cold look that he only got when he was aboutto dismember someone.Three punches slammed into the tattooed man's face in theseconds it took Boyd to run over, and they'd turned his face into a bloody mess.Aseveryone in the diner looked on, Sin lifted the man clean off the floor with one handgripping his neck despite the fact that he must have outweighed Sin by sixty or sopounds."Danny," Boyd said as he closed the distance between them, one hand raised in acalming gesture."It's okay.Calm down."Kayla and Delsin didn't even seem to register that Boyd had spoken; their eyes werefixed firmly on Sin with identical looks of shock [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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