Deadly Pasts by Jason Letts

Author:Jason Letts [Letts, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mysteries/Thrillers
Published: 2015-02-12T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

ALTEC INDUSTRIES

390 STUTTER STREET

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

The elevator doors opened in front of Nora, removing one more barrier between her and Maria’s killer. Seanie Green. How long she’d been waiting to learn that name. She would’ve gone to the ends of the Earth to track him down, but trudging through the hall proved remarkably taxing. The thought of Maria and all she could’ve been felt like such an incredible weight.

Passing a few cubicles among the countless on the floor brought her to one with his name on the label quicker than she thought. Her heart beat faster as her eyes came across a young man’s light brown hair. He turned as soon as she was there, and the shock of recognition instantaneously came over her. His appearance had changed somewhat since that night at the bar. Dark circles under his eyes and noticeably dry skin on his cheeks slightly detracted from his imposing handsomeness.

“Hi, can I help you?” he said. In the elevator, Nora had pulled her hair back tight in a way she’d never done in the hopes of masking her appearance. He didn’t seem to recognize her.

“Sorry to bother you. I’m looking for the Great American Music Hall and the guys downstairs seemed to think you lived around there.”

“No, I don’t live even close to there,” he said, squinting. He looked tired and it may well have been because of his job, but Nora imagined it was a sign of a guilty conscience.

“But you know the way, right?”

“That’s over on O’Farrell in the 800’s…”

“My mind is like a sieve and I’ll forget all of this the second I walk away. Would it be a big pain for you to write out the way to get there?” she said, feigning a look in her bag. “I can’t believe I don’t have anything to write on.”

The annoyance started to appear on Seanie’s face as he turned and pulled a sheet of paper from the printer. Grabbing a pen, he sat down to jot down the directions. He was a leftie, and the fingers on his right hand held the page steady on the table. The sight of him nearly had Nora drooling, but it had nothing to do with his appearance.

After a few lines he stopped writing and turned his attention to Nora, peering at her in a way that set off alarm bells in her head. A weak smile was her only defense.

“Do I know you from somewhere?” he asked.

“What? I’ve never been in this building before in my life,” she said, trying to play it cool.

He finished writing the directions. The way he got up to hand her the page gave her the same impression of his presence as she got at the bar. Cool, confident, and collected, but he’d just made his biggest mistake.

“Thank you so much, and I’m incredibly sorry for the trouble. I’ll let you get back to what you were doing,” she said. She held the very corner of the page between her thumb and index finger, carrying it all the way down the hall and to the elevator.

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