Deadly Silence (Silence Jones Action Thrillers Series) by Erik Carter

Author:Erik Carter [Carter, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

The photos beneath the headline. The one on the left.

Commissioner Matthew Hardin.

It was him.

Chapter Fourteen

Lowry hated this.

He hated everything about it.

Sure, the surroundings were glorious, but they were that guy’s surroundings, the douchebag standing in front of him with that cheesy politician smile.

Hardin.

Goddamn Matthew Hardin.

Lowry never thought he and Hardin would be buddies. Of course not. Lowry pursued any fruitful means to further his ever-expanding grip on this city, this little bit of the world, and he’d seen joining up with Hardin as a way of catapulting his growth. But he also didn’t think Hardin was nearly as big of a piece of shit as he discovered him to be.

It was mostly that smile. That disingenuous smile. The guy looked at you like you were a minion, a subject. He was a city commissioner, for Christ’s sake. He acted like he was already mayor.

But there was something deeper to the smile as well. It didn’t say lawyer, which is what Hardin was. It said, I’m more dangerous than you think. That’s what Lowry really despised about the guy, this unknown quality, his X factor.

Something moved.

Lowry turned. One of the windows at the front of the house. There. In those big leaves.

The Quiet Man…

Was that a figure? A man? In the shadows?

He remembered the efficiency with which his three men had been dispatched earlier. Thaxton, yanked back into the trees. Goodman, consumed by a shadow. Poletto, a knife between the ribs, the Quiet Man’s hand clamping on his mouth, smothering his scream.

Lowry squinted. The leaves moved in the breeze outside, artificial light glistening off them. One of the bigger ones slapped noiselessly against the glass.

Paranoia. His imagination getting the best of him.

His encounter with the ghost story of the underworld had made him jumpy. How could the Quiet Man have possibly tracked Lowry clear out here to Hardin’s house? Impossible. Lowry needed to relax.

That stupid politician’s grin remained on Hardin’s lips as he stepped closer to Lowry and Adriana. “All right, what exactly is the issue?”

Adriana, frightened, looked at Lowry. She wanted him to do the talking.

Of course she did.

She was that kind of person. A weakling and a fool. The wrong kind of person to involve in this operation. Which was exactly the reason she wanted Lowry to do the talking.

Idiot woman. Hardin should have never involved her.

Lowry turned a shoulder to her pleading, moist eyes, took a step closer to Hardin.

“The hit never happened,” Lowry said. “We never torched her house.”

Hardin’s smile dipped a few millimeters. The slimeball was talented at putting on appearances, but he wasn’t perfect. A flash of cold crossed his eyes.

“Why not?” he said through the smile.

“We have a serious problem.” Lowry paused. “Someone’s caught on to us.”

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