Dimension Fracture by Corinn Heathers Read Free Book Online

of Misaki pretty much curled up in Star's lap. “Okay, okay, don't embarrass the boss too much.”
    Misaki disentangled herself from Star and I stood up, standing next to my fiancee. Star remained seated. I suspected she would stay for a few moments after we left to finish her report on the case assignment.
    “I'll be sending you data on the case as it becomes available,” Star said. “I know we have very little information to work with, but I have faith in the both of you. I know you two will get to the bottom of this quickly.”
    We left the conference room and the door sealed shut behind us. Neither Misaki nor myself spoke for a long moment as we walked back to the car. Misaki stood by the driver's side door and turned a querying gaze on me.
    “Do you feel okay to drive?”
    I shook my head. “No, you go ahead. I'm still fuzzy from the medication.”
    Misaki smiled and opened the door, settling into the driver's seat, her tail curling around her thigh as she buckled her seatbelt. She disengaged the door locks and I settled into the passenger's seat. The vehicle's electric motors powered up almost silently and Misaki expertly backed out into the street, merging easily with the flow of traffic.
    I reached out to turn on the radio, but Misaki placed her hand on mine and glanced at me out of the corner of her eye.
    “Karin, I think we should go visit So-yi and Yoshiko tonight, not this weekend.”
    I blinked. Sometimes Misaki and I thought so similarly it was scary. I'd been thinking the same exact thing considering the succession of extremely unusual events. Weird shit happening all at once usually worried most rational beings, including Karin Ashley.
    “I think so, too.”
    “Really?” Misaki's ears flicked in surprise. “I was expecting you to protest such a spur-of-the-moment decision to go. Are you really feeling okay, Karin?”
    “I'm fine. I think. I just… have a feeling that we should go visit them now.” While we have the chance, I didn't add, but Misaki probably already knew that. With this case we'd been assigned, things were going to get very busy. More than that, things could also get very dangerous and it would be a good idea for us to keep a bit of distance between bystanders until we had enough for AEGIS to go after the perpetrators.
    “Do you want to go back to the apartment first, or just go?”
    I thought about that for a moment. “Let's just go. I'm sure Mama will make us stay the night, but we can just use the laundry the night before. No big deal.”
    “Should I call ahead and let them know?”
    I was about to nod, but I stopped myself and grinned evilly. “No. Let's just go. I will absolutely not waste this chance to make jaws drop.”
    Misaki giggled and turned off the surface street onto the freeway on-ramp, goosing the accelerator and sending the car rocketing onto Interstate 5 that'd take us almost all the way to my sister's house. I sent her a sidelong glance that she understood immediately, dropping speed to match that of the slower lanes as she merged into traffic.
    “You can play around when you get a real license,” I grumbled. “I really don't want to have to try and explain to the police why I let a fox-eared girl without a driver's license race across the freeway at a hundred and sixty kilometers per hour.”
    “Fine, fine,” Misaki grumbled. “You never let me have any fun.”
    “Oh, so what I was doing to you last night wasn't fun? I'll have to remember that.”
    My fiancee blushed and her ears laid flat and forward, but she said nothing, only hunkering down on the wheel, her driving becoming even more careful and exacting. Score one for Karin.

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    It only took two and a half hours to get to So-yi's house, not a surprise considering it was a weekday. As Misaki pulled the car off the freeway and onto the Portland surface streets, the traffic began to thicken considerably. I pulled out my phone and glanced at the time; it wasn't quite rush hour, but things