Apex Predator by S.M. Douglas

Author:S.M. Douglas [Douglas, S.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Winston Publishing
Published: 2016-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

August 2016 – Lviv, The Ukraine

The footfalls stopped.

Kateryna burst into the room clutching a photo album. Something large moved in the shadows behind her.

Cindy’s heart skipped a beat. Then she relaxed. It was Brody, frowning at Kateryna as he squeezed past.

“I take it all that melodrama about Dubno was a charade?” Cindy said.

“You of all people must know that werewolves are not a topic you casually bring up.”

Cindy scowled at her.

“Please understand,” Kateryna pleaded. “When I heard that you were working on a mass grave outside Dibrovno I just had to—”

“Do what?” Ernie said; the dark circles under his eyes cutting into his lined cheeks.

“You still don’t know what’s going on in Dibrovno?” Kateryna gasped.

“What do you mean?” Cindy said.

“Oh my god, it’s—”

“Show and tell is over,” Brody said, his voice gruff. “We have to go, now.”

They gathered up what they could as Brody hustled the jumpy professors up the stairs, explaining meeting Kateryna at the library’s front desk plus her strange insistence she could help. When Brody reached the top step he waved everyone into silence, peeking into the dark library. Moon light streamed in from the window, eerily illuminating the book stacks as deep shadows danced across desks, chairs, and office furniture. An image of Cameron’s ravaged corpse skittered across his mind. He shook it off. The harder he stared the more the moon light seemed to penetrate less into the old building—something grabbed his arm.

Brody nearly leaped out of his skin, eyes wide as he pivoted.

Kateryna clung to him, eyebrows raised.

Trying to calm his jackhammering nerves Brody gave the all clear. Kateryna eased past. He let her. She would know the best way out. Cindy and Ernie followed, moving painfully slow. Ernie’s eye sight wasn’t what it had once been, nor was his hearing. Trailing behind his friends he abruptly startled, fumbling loudly with his armload of books.

Everyone froze. Multiple sets of ears and eyes strained to pierce the gloom.

A branch swaying in the wind scratched up against a window.

Brody’s mouth felt uncomfortably tight and dry. After several more seconds he waved them on.

They came to a steel exit door.

Kateryna pushed it open and hurried outside, her shoes grinding into the asphalt as the warm night air enveloped them in its humid embrace. Tall buildings blocked most of the moonlight from filtering into the dark alley.

“Our car is parked—”

“No,” Brody silenced Ernie, and motioned them to his rental car parked along the back wall of the library. They piled in and Brody threw the car into gear. As far as he could tell no one had spotted their escape. Nevertheless, he needed to be sure. He executed a tight turn, maneuvering up the alley. He let the car drift forward, nosing out into the main street running in front of the library. Evenly spaced lamp posts marched along the sidewalk, casting pale circles of light - except for the one that should have been above Ernie and Cindy’s car. The only one not working.

Brody pointed down

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