War of Mars: Jinks Montreal 4

by Beth Hoyer

it must be the contents of the private conversation you had with her while in your limo.”

  Jinks again nodded his head as Winston kept talking “Whatever you and Elsa talked about isn’t my business but your words seemed to have made her happy judging by the look on her face after she left your limo. I thank you for that.”

  He stared at Winston who held up his hand while speaking “Judging by the looks of things I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another wedding in the future with Thomas smitten with Elsa. Thanks for playing matchmaker.”

  He smiled a small smile at Winston and shook the man’s hand then he let go to watch Winston walk to another table and sit down next to an old woman. He sighed and sat down watching as waiters taking plates empty of food away and continued to look around the room watching people chatter with each other. He again sighed as he heard a bell ringing noise and looked at his left to see a waiter walk into the room from a double door ringing a bell followed by a five tier cake pushed on a cart by a female waiter. He watched as Thad and Yanet walked into his eyes sight heading towards the cake and saw the camera woman nearby camera aimed at the couple. He kept his eyes on the couple as they both cut a slice of the cake then fed each other bites of the slice then went to sit down as the waiter pushed the cake through the double doors he spotted was a kitchen inside. He sighed again remembering his wedding to Victoria involved the cake cutting ceremony with a frown running through him. Jinks again sighed as waiters came into view carrying plates holding cake slices to set in front of people. He stared at the cake slice as it was set in front of him with distaste running through him remembering the last time he ate cake turned out to be poisoned which got him sick.

  He heard a growling sound within his mind as an image of Lance with all black eyes flashed in his mind followed by his father’s voice speaking in an angry tone “You’re eating the cake period.”

  With a groan he picked up the spoon and cut off a piece of cake and brought it to his mouth chewing it to discover it reminded him of the cakes he would eat on Halloween when his mother was alive with him over the years which stopped after she was assassinated. He found the cake tasted well ate the whole thing leaving only crumbs on his plate then sat back in the chair to look around the room. He heard the band start its music followed by the female announcer singing a song he heard was about love. He turned his attention to Thad and Yanet who got up from their seats to the wooden floor and began dancing with hands clasped in front of each other in a slow dance. He saw the camera woman filming them dancing as other people joined the couple to dance he recognized were waltzes from his past wedding with Victoria years ago. He sighed again watching as Thomas and Elsa joined the people and was copying Thad and Yanet with their dancing motions. He looked around the room till his eyes fell on Yessenia seeing she looked sad by the look on her face watching the people dance and felt an urge to dance which he got up and went around the table towards the woman. He reached Yessenia tapped her on the shoulder which got her to look at him.

  Jinks spoke holding out a hand “Care to dance with me?”

  He saw Yessenia’s sad look went away from her face but the sadness remained in her eyes as she nodded her head and placed her hand on his which he pulled her up from the table and led her to the dance floor. Jinks remembering his dancing with Victoria set up Yessenia’s hands and arms position into a waltz which he danced with her while seeing she seemed to be okay with it. He felt himself filmed as he danced with Yessenia ignored the sensation and felt the filming stop till he felt a tap on his right shoulder halted the dance to look.

  He frowned seeing an Asian male who seemed familiar with parts of his ears cut and long black hair wearing a military blue dress uniform that spoke in a Highlander accent “May I cut in?”

  He heard Yessenia shriek “Ryan! You came!”

  Jinks felt Yessenia let go of him to dart towards the Asian male Ryan he assumed hugging him who kissed her on the lips a long kiss. He sighed and went to sit down watching Ryan and Yessenia have a whispered conversation after breaking off their kiss with their hands clasped in front of each other while repeatedly doing lip kissing on and off. He eyed Ryan frowning to him wondering why the male was familiar to him and stiffened as he recalled his son Ajax with a Highlander female looking identical to the Asian which confused him. He frowned wondering if Ajax had children only to recall a previous conversation with Lance which flashed in his mind.

  Jinks remembering were told by Lance “The High Council raised Ajax, your son to be trained as an assassin who was sent back in time by some time travel gate that was destroyed. This happened after Ajax went through the gate to assassinate you holding a U.S. government position of King but didn’t follow through with the assassination.”

  His son he remembers further “He wound up shooting himself in the head with a gun that only knocked him out but didn’t cause any medical damage. Ajax at awakening later pointed out the High Council’s home base location as the Australia Atoll before being taken away.”

  Jinks frowned to him remembering that according to Lance “Ajax was brought to the Zesky Hospital and put in a frozen sleep with their machinery there. They would wake him once relations between Humans and the High Council were on peaceful terms.”

  Jinks sighed remembering another previous conversation with Lance saying “Ajax had been waken up and released from the Zesky Hospital to a Master army group in Connecticut and was given the name of Ryan with Ajax as his last name.”

  He frowned recalling the female announcer announcing Yessenia’s name with Ajax as her last name and stared at the couple Ryan he figured was his son and Yessenia still having their whispering conversation figuring out that they were married to each other. He frowned as the female singer finished her song followed by the music ending which he saw people on the dance floor going to their seats at tables. He sat watching as his table companions joined him at the table with Yessenia and Ryan sitting next to each other still holding hands.

  Jinks watches as the female singer spoke “I announce the bouquet toss!”

  Jinks watches as woman form a group with Elsa in the group and Yanet too many feet away who tosses her bouquet of flowers behind her and sees Elsa catch it. He watches as Thad removes Yanet’s garter from her leg then goes to toss it behind him to see it caught by Thomas who puts it on Elsa’s leg before kissing her on the lips. Jinks feels a compulsion to leave as there are people dancing while the female singer is singing another song which he obeys going to the hallway to spot a man wearing military uniform at the end with a gun on his back tying the door knobs together with a rope.

  Jinks wills the Master through to raise a hand and waits as the man turns around which he mentally spoke “I orders the man to sleep!” who hits the floor unconscious.

  He uses his powers to get the rope off the doors making them ajar then wills the Master away to walk towards the doors to raise his hands as men wearing riot gear come into the hallway with guns in their hands. He gestures with his head and eyes towards the unconscious man which the riot people get his message haul the unconscious man out.

  Jinks got told “We order you to come with us.”

  He goes out to sit on a bench and flinches from a light flashing in his face from one of the men holding a device in his hand. He frowns as the man he sees looks shocked then shows the device to another man who looked shocked which he spots his driver standing near a police officer who appears to be conversing with him and spots a limo with flat tires and broken windows being towed away by tow truck.

  He frowns “I’m wondering what’s going on.” as the man who flashes the device’s light in his face speaks “We had a tip off that some military officer dubbed Diablo went absent without leave from his army group in Massachusetts.

  We got a phone call from a Highlander saying ‘Diablo was going to a wedding reception to use his gun on people.’

  We tracked him here. Diablo rigged a limo to blow up which the driver caught him doing it called the p
olice who brought the riot police to arrive. We’ve managed to disable the limo from blowing up but we have to bring it to the garage for fixing due to the damage done to it.”

  Jinks sensed keeps his mouth shut as the man speaks calling him by his name of Mister Montreal “Mister Montreal that it was your limo that was targeted by Diablo mistakenly thinking it belonged to the married couple. Your driver told the police what Diablo was planning to do which was target a female named Yessenia and the motive was because she chose another man as her husband instead of Diablo.”

  Jinks nods his head in understanding to the riot officer’s words as the officer continues “We’re in process in sending another vehicle to drive Mister Montreal home which his driver will do the driving for him.”

  He sits patiently as the riot officer wanders elsewhere showing other officers the device to them and sees them look shocked by their eyes widening seeing it.

  Jinks think “I frown wondering what the device is.”

  I recalled it must be an identifying device to identify people hence the officer speaking Jinks’ name as if already knowing him.

  Jinks sit waiting as a sedan arrives by tow truck and he is told “You’re to use the sedan as your transportation to