Six Months later…..

Terry

I woke half naked with only my pants on and nothing else. My gear was gone and I had massive headache. I was lying on a concrete floor with smell of dry blood. It was warm. I only felt a little cool from the air conditioning.

Hmm. I heard the steady clip of heels approaching me from a hallway outside my cell. I wondered what the hell this was about. I rolled up to a sitting position on the floor. My head made me pay for the movement with extra pounding.

I tried tapping the side of my head and attempted to remove a VR headset that wasn’t there. This was real then. Where fuck was I?

I looked up as the heels came to a stop at a wall but I didn’t see a door. The door way slid open to a white hallway I saw past the female figure that stood in front of me as the door quickly slid closed behind us leaving us in the fake dungeon.

“Mr. Serio. Do you know why you are here?”

She wasn’t a model. Her tone and direct stare wasn’t like one of them and she smelled like soap and water with slash of roses. Corpo. She had to be an executive class. Shit.

“No. No. I don’t one moment I’m drinking coffee at my favorite bar and relaxing for night before a job now. I’m thinking when I get out of here I’m going to kill my favorite bartender for slipping me whatever he did to make my head hurt like a son of bitch. You got a job for me or are you presenting me with a mating contract?”

She stared at me. She reached behind her back presenting me with fancy silver detapad and clicked a bottom to show the picture of photo of a former client of mean a year ago. “Do you know this person?”

“Yeah. She gave me the name Katelyn Bess a solo operator of some kind. Wanted me to find some micro computer of some kind. I had to give her the credits back. I failed the job.”

The room flashed a green color.

What the hell?

She grimanced. “She wanted you to find a very special item. A Silverback. An item that you say you failed to find but I know that is a lie.”

Again the room flashed green. I shrugged. “I’m missing the part why I would willingly give up 50k ebs. I don’t break my word and I don’t give up ebs easily. I’m a business man and I eat what I kill.”

The green flashed green again.

She frowned at me. “Your a good liar. Fine then. Tell me where the Silverback is?”

“Your guess is as good as mean?” I said.

“Tell me where the Silverback is? Your evading my question. You must an idea where it is or in whom possession it currently is. Tell me.”

I smiled. “Can’t help you there. Your asking for free help. I’m not into charity work.” I said coming to my feet. All I had to do was grab a hold of her and use her as a hostage. Easy work.

“Oh. I think you can. I think you will.” She said before lifting her hand and firing fingernails toward. They stabbed into my chest.

Pain shot up into my chest as my body was lit up with lightning.. My body started shaking in a violent uncontrollably.