Brand New Dark by Beau Johnson

Author:Beau Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

Batista takes the child with him and leaves me with Lahey.

“We got lucky here, I think,” he says.

“Did we?” I say but fail to keep the tone from my voice. Stopping them has always been the easy part, far easier once you begin, but the getting here, through the Abrums and the Mapones, the Kincaids and the Ganks, it remained what it was, and lucky or not, choosing to continue or not, the detective would be wise to remember as much.

I turn back to Lahey, the man now down off the couch and into the space between it and the coffee table. Jensen’s body, now at a right angle, becoming a gift that kept on giving, albeit one that continued in ways it could no longer control.

“Funny thing about not lawyering up, Kyle,” I say. “It sends up certain flags. Not just concerning a man and how he might in fact be innocent, but how it can also reek of something not many of us have.”

He’s crying openly now, his eyes pleading every which way they’re able as snot bubbles play hide and seek against the gag. I take a seat on the coffee table. “I’m not sure if you were involved with that house on Kessel Street, the one owned by the Currs, but something tells me you might have been. It means I missed you somehow. Makes me think I could have missed others as well. You see where I’m going with this, Kyle?”

He did. So eager to speak he begins choking on his spit once I lower the gag. “No one. There’s no one else. Please. Pleassse.”

But it wasn’t enough. Been down the same road home to the same dominoes too many times before.

I reapply his gag and start with the index finger of his right hand, his eyes almost coming out of his skull when the pain hits. Four more times and I ask him the question a second time.

“He’ll kill me.”

“Kyle, what do you think I’m going to do?”

It was enough. Or he’d had enough. Either way, he gives it up. And I almost see relief on his face when I bring the knife back out. It wouldn’t last, of course, nor would I make his exit easy, but for one brief moment, I see it as he does, that things were finally close to ending.

I opt to disappoint.

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