Corrupted by Phoenix Ward

Author:Phoenix Ward [Ward, Phoenix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phoenix Ward
Published: 2019-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

23

Surrounded

Beth had been so immersed in her research and conversations with Simon that she failed to notice the squad of nine heavily armed police officers in body armor approaching the Fog house from all sides.

They crept through the dark of night like big cats in pursuit of a kill. Each one of them was equipped with night vision gear as well as a belt of gadgets like concussion grenades, taser guns, and electrified batons. They stayed crouched low to the ground so the street lights would illuminate them less. All nine of the police officers got into position without being detected, then waited for the alert before moving into action.

Once Beth was fully notified of the shitstorm approaching her, she pulled herself out of her immersed state and back into the real world. She found herself in the same broken down bedroom with the unbathed junkies strewn over the floor that she had been in for almost two days now. The smell of stale beer and faint urine was always present, and a bit of smoke from an unknown source seemed to hang in the air like msit on a bayou. There was no sound but the inhale and exhale of a few sleeping drug addicts, and — Beth now noticed — the sound of someone shouting from outside.

“The house is surrounded!” she heard a woman yell from the front of the building. “Lay down any weapons you might have and put your hands in the air. Don’t make a move and nobody gets hurt!”

Beth could hear some scuffling in the rooms around them. Some of the junkies in their room stirred, looking around at the police lights that were now shining brightly through the windows. Some voices yipped out in fright. Others hollered instructions to each other. Metal scraped on wood as different people around the house grabbed things to defend themselves with.

“You are harboring a dangerous fugitive,” the police sergeant continued to yell. “None of you will be subject to any criminal charges, regardless of what we find on the premises, so long as you surrender the fugitive peacefully.”

How did they track us? Beth’s frantic thoughts ricocheted around the inside of her skull.

“I don’t know!” Simon said. His own tone was saturated with anxiety. “My private access point should have kept us untraceable. It should have been foolproof!”

Well, it looks like it wasn’t, Beth replied. And now we’re fucked.

“The fugitive is known as one Elizabeth Dylan,” the woman outside carried on. “She is a former police detective and is believed to be armed and dangerous. She is approximately five feet five inches tall — of Asian and European descent. You have five minutes to surrender her willingly or we will come in and take her by force.”

They’ve got to be bluffing, Beth thought. If they’re working with Tarov, there’s no way they’re going to let witnesses live. They’ll probably shoot whoever brings me out the front door, spray the windows and walls with lead, and then burn the house down.

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