Blood of the Father: The Children of Cain by David Bishop & J Cordero

Author:David Bishop & J Cordero [Bishop, David & Cordero, J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: My Little Island in the Ether, LLC
Published: 2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

38

Gabriel checked the Navigator. The two bouncers stared straight ahead. The engine idled.

So, he thought, they’re not expecting this to last long.”

As if this were a cue, the steel door opened, flooding the sidewalk with light.

Gabriel flattened himself against the wall and watched as a man dressed in a suit, his long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail, exited the building and walked over to the Navigator. The man tapped on the glass, which came down immediately. Gabriel strained to hear the conversation, but it was over before the window could fully retract.

The man turned on his heel and walked back towards the building without a glance back at the Navigator. As the Navigator pulled away from the curb, the man stopped and spun around to face the corner where Gabriel was hiding.

Gabriel pulled his head back around the corner and held his breath. Pressing his body as flat as he could against the wall, he moved his hand as quietly as he could up to the Beretta he had tucked in the back of his pants. He felt the comforting grip and finally took a breath as he heard the steel door slam shut and the scrape of the lock.

Gabriel scanned the darkened street, making sure the man had not stayed outside to linger on a cigarette break, and then moved quickly back to his car. He got in, closed the door gently, and put the key in the ignition. He was about to start the car when he heard a tap on his window.

He looked up to see Dr. Andrews, the intern from the morgue, looking at him. Only Dr. Bennett had informed him he had no intern. Dr. Andrews pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

Gabriel pulled his Beretta out and pointed it at the man as he rolled the window down.

The man looked unimpressed at the weapon pointed at his chest as he smoked his cigarette. He exhaled. “It would be unwise to follow those men.” His voice carried no accent or timbre to betray what part of the country or world he might have been born and raised in.

“Oh yeah?” Gabriel thumbed off the safety. “Why do you think I was going to follow them?”

“Because, Mr. Hawthorne, I’ve been following you.” He dropped his cigarette and stubbed it out with his foot. “Those men are dangerous,” Dr. Andrews said.

“I handled them pretty well a half hour ago,” Gabriel replied.

“I don’t mean their proficiency at hand-to-hand or armed combat, Mr. Hawthorne, but whom they work for and where they are going now. Especially if they realized they were being followed. And they would have realized it.”

“I’m pretty proficient at tailing.” Gabriel kept the Beretta trained on the man’s chest.

The man smiled. “But not at being tailed.”

At that moment, Gabriel heard the metallic tap of steel on the glass coming from the passenger window. He turned and cursed to himself as he saw the hulking silhouette of a man pointing a pistol with a silencer at him.

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