Bad! Bad! Said the Dog by Glen Seeber

Author:Glen Seeber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Glen Seeber
Published: 2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 37: WHY THIS HOUSE?

“Well, Fred? Is that what happened?”

“Yeh!”

I slipped him a treat. He got up on his hind legs and did a little dance, then ate the treat.

“Funny!” she said.

“One thing I left out,” I said. “You need to know about it, so you’ll know how serious this is.”

“It gets more serious than two bullets in the head?”

I nodded.

“Right after I agreed to testify, the U.S. Marshals sent some people to my house to get things I’d need when disappearing forever. Just a few items I didn’t want to leave behind. I’d be changing my style of clothing, so my wardrobe was out. But Fred had some favorite toys, and I had some CDs and a few other things I wanted to keep.

“About three minutes after the agents entered my house, it exploded, leaving no survivors.”

“Oh my God,” she said.

“I insisted on being driven by before leaving town. There was a smoking crater where my house once stood. Houses on both sides as well as across the street also were damaged. The news on TV that night blamed a gas leak, but I knew better. It was a bomb intended for me.

“So you can’t breathe a word of this to anyone. Not your best friend, not your parents, not even your priest in confession. Heck, don’t even whisper it to the lions at the zoo. You never know who might be listening. And this is for your safety as well as Fred’s and mine.

“My family doesn’t care who they hurt.”

Julie got up and went to the window to look out. Then, apparently thinking about my story, she closed the curtains and stepped away from the windows.

“How do you live, knowing they want you dead?” she asked.

I shrugged, then gestured to Fred, who jumped up onto my lap for a brief cuddle and head scratch.

“I have Fred and he has me. We watch out for each other, and we lie low.” I paused to think about what I’d just said, then snorted. “OK, we try to lie low. It isn’t easy when one day you discover you have a foul-smelling, blood-sucking monster living under your floor.”

“Why your floor?” she asked.

“What do you mean?”

“What is so special about this house that a thing like that would be living under it when you moved in? I mean, this is a big city, with a lot of empty buildings. Heck, when Walmart gets tired of dealing with leaks in their roof, they build a new store and abandon the old one. And if it isn’t Walmart, then it’s some other bankrupt manufacturer or business or foreclosed homeowner who moves out, leaving an empty nest practically designed to meet the needs of this thing.

“Why here? Why this house?”

I told her what Penny had told me about the house, how it had been acquired by one federal agency and put into use by a different federal agency for Fred and me to live in.

“So this was a meth lab,” she said.

“That’s what I’m told.”

“That still doesn’t explain the thing under the floor.

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