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Category:
Science Fiction
Publisher: Wittegen Press
ISBN-10: B01BT8X0JY
Type: Fiction
Pages: 73
Copyright: Jan 01, 2016
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Men in black aren't usually associated with figure skating, but when MiBs try to arrest men's champion Louis Hayes, his ex-rival Rafe Derouet finds out to his cost that telepathic x-files really do exist.
Rafe Derouet used to be a world class, British figure skater competing against his arch rival, flamboyant American Louis Hayes. A catastrophic knee injury ended his career and now all he can do is look on from the sidelines, commentating where he used to be a star. He hates Louis and wants nothing more than to see his nemesis go down in a blaze of failure.
Then mysterious men in black with guns take over a press meet, trying to arrest Louis, awakening something dangerous in their target, and setting in motion events they cannot control. Most shocking of all, Rafe finds out Louis can literally read his mind.
Dragged into a murky world of government agents and x-files by one of those x-files, Rafe finds his world view completely changing. And, along the way, his hatred for Louis proves to be something else entirely.
Now Rafe just needs to survive so he can decide what to do about it.
Excerpt
Rafe was in a hurry.
Whoever had had the idea to produce a US/Russian/Chinese special sporting event in celebration of the new economic treaty that was going through had to have been insane.
There was figure skating and speed skating, long and short track, in the dual arena and athletics on the field and gymnastics in another arena down the road. It was as if someone had stuck pins in all the sports they thought the various countries were good at and then invited all the top athletes from the three countries to compete.
It was completely crazy and the whole world was watching, which was why Rafe was there reporting on it.
Given the current political climate, everyone was hoping sport could settle some of the latest rumblings. Rafe was waiting for it to all blow up in the organisers' faces. He had too many things to do and not enough time to do them, which was why he wasn't really paying attention to his surroundings. The messages from his producer and
his agent were far more important at the moment. If he had been giving thought to anything but texts he would have picked a different route.
"Well look who it isn't," said an all too familiar voice with an annoying American twang.
Not that Rafe found all American's annoying, just this one in particular. He looked up from his phone to see Louis 'pronounced the French way, darling' Hayes less than three
feet away.
Before he had fallen in the previous year's world championships and shattered his knee, Rafe had been Louis' arch rival on the ice. Competing for the UK in men's figure
skating, Rafe had spent the last few years swapping the number one spots in various competitions with Louis, but that was all over now. After eighteen months he could skate again, but he would never be able to compete at top level. These days he was doing TV
shows and reporting for European sports channels and Louis was still glittering up the ice.
It made him want to knock Louis' perfect teeth in with one of his skates all the more.
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