Horror From Below by J T Sawyer

Author:J T Sawyer
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: JT Sawyer
Published: 2020-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Brant flung open the lobby door on the ground floor of the Embassy Hotel, pushing through a crowd of a thousand attendees, who were clad in a medley of homemade and store-bought Halloween costumes. She marched to the security desk, asking to see the supervisor, who promptly escorted her towards the last known location of Archer.

She opened the door of the large conference room and went inside, noting the table full of props on the stage.

“Do you just leave those out all night?” she said, looking over the plethora of fake weapons.

The balding figure, who was a full foot shorter than Archer, gave her a puzzled expression. “No, these should have been packed up by Mr. Archer by now. I know a lot of this stuff is from his personal collection, so it’s not like him to just leave these sitting around.”

Brant walked towards the exit door, opening it slowly and stepping into the service hallway. She saw a toppled pile of plastic cups spread on the ground next to a fallen chair, along with scuff marks in the ruby-colored carpet.

“Can you verify that Archer is in the building?” she said to the portly guard.

“I’ll check.” He grabbed the radio off his belt and then walked away as he spoke to his staff. Returning a minute later, he approached Brant, who was standing by the open door that led to the alley. “Not only has no one seen him in the past hour, but he was absent from the panel discussion that just ended.”

She pointed to the ground by the loading ramp. “And those look like fresh rubber marks.” Brant’s face grew taut as she glanced up at the security camera above her head. “I need to see your footage—where’s your command post located?”

The man swung around faster than she thought he was capable of, motioning with his pudgy hand for her to follow. “Second floor—I’ll take you there myself.”

***

Twenty minutes later, she burst through the doors of the security office just in time to intercept Halsey as he entered the hotel.

“Did you find Archer?”

“Abducted at the rear of the building by what looked to be an Asian perp who then drove off with him.” Halsey tried to keep up with her as she headed for the street. “I already called in the make and plates of the car he was in. Napalme is getting our helo crew up in the air to see if they can spot it.”

She got inside her car, nodding for Halsey to join her. “It looked like they were heading north onto the I-5 according to what I could glean from the security cam angled out back.”

“We’re not going to catch up with them—they’ve got at least a thirty-minute lead on us.”

Brant thrust her foot down on the accelerator, weaving through traffic towards the entrance ramp to the interstate. Hang on, Archer.

She bit her lip, trying to ignore the fact that he had grown on her during the past two days. Forget about it.

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