Cold by Robert J Crane

Author:Robert J Crane [Crane, Robert J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Unread
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

39.

Brianna

Brianna had driven to the scene last night, just to make sure it was viable. The police presence then had been minimal, and she’d parked a few blocks away and commandeered a shopping cart, filling it with garbage on her approach. Once in the zone, she’d muttered to herself and just generally tried to sound like a crazy homeless lady.

The cops had, unsurprisingly, left her alone. The makeup and outfit had done their job, which had been fortunate.

She’d chosen a spot three blocks away, a building with a tilted, A-frame-like roof that had a clear sight line to the library steps. There was at least one flat-roofed building behind her that would surely be laden with Louisiana State Police, though, and some of them had to be dealt with before she could set up.

So that was what she was doing—taking care of business.

There were five troopers walking the perimeter building next to the A-framed one. It had a flat roof, and likely a few snipers atop it in addition to the guards patrolling around it. Three of the plainclothes officers were stationed in the narrow alleys on the sides and rear of the building. Two were posted out front.

She came into the alley on a long-hooking approach from behind the building next door, ditching her rifle bag behind a dumpster half a block out. She had a pistol if she needed it, but she doubted she would. She needed to keep this quiet.

Deadly quiet.

Her hands were slick with sweat, drawing the humidity out of the air and using it to rise, building a slide that her feet adhered to as the ice pushed her along to the rooftop, above the sentries below. As she climbed, she dissolved the slide behind her so as not to leave a sign. Some of the excess dripped down to the alley floor below, but most of it was absorbed back into the air.

She came up onto the roof in the shadow of the protruding stairwell entry to the rooftop, a six-foot-tall structure that rose up above everything and blocked her from the snipers, one of whom was at the corner to her right, the other ahead and to the left, stationed at opposite corners.

She slipped in behind the trooper to her left, tiptoeing quietly up behind him and delivering the coup de grace to the back of his head. He slumped over, unconscious, and she bound his hands and feet in ice, then froze his mouth closed so he couldn’t shout if he woke up. She repeated the process at the opposite corner of the building, knocking the next sentry out and then moving to the edge of the rooftop.

The next one was clear, and she’d just eliminated the only watchers that would be behind her. The A-frame, rising roof on the next building would shield her from view of the library until it was time.

She leapt over the alley at a run, and her fingers found purchase on the edge of the roof. Brianna pulled herself up, gasping, trying to keep it quiet.

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