Cage of Bones by Tiana Carver

Author:Tiana Carver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books

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Marina found the door to the records room. Turned the handle. Open. She went inside.

‘Don? You in here?’

No reply.

She looked down the first aisle. It was exactly as she had expected it to be. Long rows of shelving piled with old cardboard boxes. Dark in there, especially for daytime. Bad, infrequent overhead lighting. Several of the tubes were buzzing, flickering. Strobing the room.

Like in a horror film, she thought.

Then mentally pinched herself. Don’t be so stupid. This was Southway police station in Colchester. Not The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue.

She paused, listening. Called again.

‘Don? You there?’

A noise. Down at the end of one of the aisles. Someone was in there with her.

‘Don, it’s Marina. Are you …’

A figure detached itself from the shadowed end of the aisle. Moved towards her.

‘Don? Is that you?’

The figure moved into a pool of flickering light.

Marina let loose a breath she didn’t realise she had been holding. ‘It is you. I thought for a minute it was …’ She stopped, sentence unfinished. ‘What have you got there, Don? What are you doing?’

Don was frantically stuffing something inside his jacket. From the look on his face, it appeared that he wasn’t pleased to be caught doing it.

‘Marina …’ The flickering overhead light picked out his eyes, lit by a strange cast. Not a pleasant one.

Marina was beginning to get scared. This wasn’t the kindly old grandfather who looked after her daughter. This was … someone she had never seen before.

‘Don, what are you …’

Papers successfully hidden inside his jacket, he advanced towards her.

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