Omega (The Infinity Division, #2) Chapter 1 to 3

Chapter One

Omega (The Infinity Division, #2) by Jus Accardo

Copyright © 2017 by Jus Accardo

Edited by Stacy Abrams

For the readers. All the readers in all the places... Thank you from the bottom of my heart <3

Noah

Live your life in vivid color.

That was what Kori's—my sister-from-anotherworld's-mister—new tattoo said. I didn't disapprove. Personally, I loved ink. Had a few of my own, though nothing quite so lame... No, what pissed me off was the situation it had put us in.

"Get down!" Something tackled me from behind and drove us both into the dirt as a spray of gunfire assaulted the earth at my feet. Dust and debris kicked up, getting into my eyes and mouth. This damn world tasted like sardines.

"Why the hell are they shooting at us, Noah?" My best friend Cade rolled off me and shimmied to a safe spot behind a parked van. Glass shattered above us, a million tiny pieces raining down on our heads like New Year's Eve confetti.

"Why are you asking me?" I growled and ducked as another hail of gunfire came. This time it hit the street sign a few feet away, the echoing ping of metal against metal ringing in my ears. "All I did was ask for a goddamned cheeseburger."

Kori's eyes grew wide and her mouth fell open. It was an expression I was becoming annoyingly accustomed to when it came to me. "On a world that outlawed meat?"

Okay. Maybe the tattoo wasn't one hundred percent to blame for the situation...

"How was I supposed to know that?" The guy had just bandaged her new ink and my stomach growled. Loud and unavoidable. All I'd done was ask where I could get a decent burger. You would have thought I'd requested a pound of toddler tartar with a nice big side of kitten sorbet.

Cade shook the glass from his hair, then reached over and carefully pulled a piece from Kori's. His lips tilted upward and it was like the guy forgot about the chaos raging all around us. Gunfire and imminent danger? Pssh. Who cared about that shit? "You need to be more careful." He was talking to me, but he was looking at her.

He was always looking at her.

"He was hungry," came Kori's reply. She, like him, was equally lost, grinning like a jackass as bullets bounced off the building to our left and right and shouting voices in the not so distant area called for our heads. "He doesn't think clearly when he's hungry."

Cade rolled his eyes and his grin widened. "When is he not hungry?" He glanced down at his ankle and relief settled over his features. I knew why. I'd felt it, too. The smallest rise in temperature from the cuff—the thing that allowed us to travel between dimensions—that signaled the main cuff had just been activated. We would be pulled along shortly, ready or not. They were linked together. Where it went, we went—which was fine with me.

We had a score to settle with the asshole wearing it.

"Just have to hold out a few minutes more." Cade and I had slapped on the cuffs and willingly left our home behind to chase after his brother, Dylan, after he killed my sister in an attempt to exact revenge on the people he felt had wronged him—Cade and our father included. He'd promised to wipe her away completely. Erase her from existence by killing every single version of Kori Anderson he could find.