Broken Sky by Saurav Dutt

Author:Saurav Dutt [Dutt, Saurav]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781495342752
Google: AgvsoAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1495342751
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2014-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

He knew the timing was off. Pollard had sunk two cans of baked beans into his oversized khaki army jacket and was sure the overweight blonde lady down the aisle had seen him do it. “Hey..” he whispered through the crack of light between the shelf of cans in front of him. “What the hell is it?” she hissed, her own concentration disrupted as she dropped a handful of Hershey bars onto the ground.

The supermarket was preparing to close for the evening. The aisles were scattered with one or two remaining customers, some with baskets packed to the brim with discounted loaves of bread, confectionary and assorted items. Others were walking around aimlessly, killing time. And then there was the cop out of uniform standing twenty feet from Pollard watching him closely, hoping, and praying he wasn’t doing what he looked like he was. Officer Megan Fellows was tired, irritable and only came in to buy some smokes. But she had noticed the short, balding man with the broken spectacles circling the same aisle for the past fifteen minutes. Then there was the army jacket, probably three times his size; an obvious giveaway.

“How much did ya get? I’m done, let’s beat it” Pollard whispered again, completely oblivious to the fact that he was being watched. She struggled to pull up the broken zip of the torn dark overcoat she had fished out of an alleyway skip. Looking to her side, she noticed the aisle was completely clear. “Pollard..” she said “get your ass over to this side, I need some help.”

“What with?” he shot back.

“The pockets of this damn thing are torn; I can’t hold a damn thing.” she snapped.

Pollard shifted uncomfortably on the spot, his abdomen shivering as he felt the cold surface of the beer cans he had stuffed down his pants press against his groin. As he bent over, pretending to study the bottom shelf, and as he swiftly concealed another chocolate bar up the sleeve of the coat, his spectacles slipped down the bridge of his nose and landed on the floor.

He heard the bounce of steel rebound against the hard ground as it fell and the sound of glass cracking. “Hey you….stop what you’re doing” a voice called out to him. It was low, husky and accusatory. Pollard immediately knew it was a cop.

He pretended not to hear, and knelt down to pick up the glasses only for the Hershey bar to slip out from his sleeve and fall against the side of his left shoe. Then another bar, and another. “I’m talking to you man…” the voice repeated, more urgent this time. Officer Follows had now moved forward carefully, studying Pollard as he knelt there frozen to the spot. One hand was hovering precariously above the rim of his spectacles and the other still tucked in within his coat sleeve, tightened and gripping the cuff of the jacket tightly within its grasp. Without the glasses he was blind as a bat.

“Pollard, what the

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