DBM03 - A Ghost in Time by Winters J D

Author:Winters, J D [Winters, J D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cThriller
Publisher: Doorknock Publishers
Published: 2015-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Hi,” I said, breathing hard and trying to smile.

“What the hell?” the lone male said, rising to his feet and looking fierce.

The two females merely stared. They obviously recognized me, but I had a feeling they might remember all those times they’d seen me with Roy the best. And that was okay.

I’d never actually met these people, so it was no wonder they were a bit surprised when I burst in on them. Still, I did know their names—Danny Ortega was the male. He was good looking in a dark, sullen way that teenaged girls often fell for. The others were Leah Poole and Francie Lake, two pretty blondes who looked so much alike, I hadn’t even tried to differentiate them yet. They all looked like your average teenagers, hanging out on an evening, dressed in jeans and t-shirts.

“I’m sorry,” I said quickly, as soon as I could talk without gasping. “There’s a man following me. I…I’m not sure why, but I got really scared and your place was the only refuge I could find so I…”

“Yeah, we can see what you did,” Danny said cynically. “But why are you sneaking around here, anyway? Were you up at Star’s house?”

I shrugged helplessly. “I…sort of. But only in the yard,” I hastened to add.

“And the guy following you?”

“I don’t know. He seemed to come from the direction of the house but … .”

“No. There’s no one staying at the house.”

He said it as though that settled the matter and I must be a liar if I claimed anything else.

“Well, he definitely came out of the yard,” I said stoutly. “I was down the hill at the edge of the canyon and all of a sudden he came out as though he was after something. I didn’t want to stay to find out what that might be.”

“Did he say anything?”

“No. He didn’t get that close.”

Danny opened the door and peered out into the gloom. “I don’t see anybody.”

“He can’t be gone,” I said. “He was just coming down the hill after me.”

One of the girls turned on the young man, her eyes wide. “Danny! Go out there and find out what he wants.”

Danny looked startled. “Me? Why me?”

“Because you’re the man.”

He looked thoroughly disgusted. “Oh, cool. You two are always yammering about equal treatment and stuff, but the moment something hard or dangerous pops up, it’s ‘Danny, you do it!’”

Both women rolled their eyes in unison. It looked like something they did a lot. Danny sighed, grabbed a big long flashlight and went out into the night.

One of the blondes, the one with cute modern-looking glasses, turned to me and said, “Okay, now that he’s out of the room, we can be perfectly frank. Whatever it is that you’re here to complain about, Danny did it. No doubt about it.”

The other one gave her a sideways glance and came close, grabbing my arm and saying conspiratorially, “Don’t listen to Leah. If you want to get the truth, we’d better go into the kitchen where we won’t be overheard.

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