House of the Rising Gun (Easytown Novels Book 4) by Brian Parker

Author:Brian Parker [Parker, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muddy Boots Press
Published: 2021-07-30T11:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN: THURSDAY

I glanced at the clock behind the nurses’ station. It was nearing two o’clock in the afternoon. “Here?” I asked, pointing at the data pad.

“Yes, Mr. Forrest. Doctor Helms is not happy that you’re leaving.”

I grunted noncommittally. “Hmpf. My insurance can’t cover an overnight stay in the hospital.”

The nurse shrugged, bored. “Remember to take the meds and you should be fine.”

I held up the little bottle of pills and shook them. “I can’t wait.”

“Make sure you take them with food, like it says on the label.”

“No problem… Um, did the officers happen to give you my phone?”

She turned away and rummaged through a bin. “Oh, yeah. Here it is, sorry.” The nurse held up a clear plastic bag with my name written across it. Inside were my phone and a data chip with the Baton Rouge Police Department logo emblazoned upon it.

“What’s this?” I asked, pointed at the data chip.

“Probably your court summons or something like that. They didn’t tell us a whole lot when they brought you in this morning.”

I nodded and tapped the countertop with an open palm. “Thanks again.”

“Mmm hmm,” she said, spraying a sterilizer mist over the spot where I’d rested my hands on the counter.

I pulled my phone from the bag and tapped the screen. There were a lot of messages, looked like most of them were spam. One was from Brubaker that I decided to listen to right away.

“If you ever have your droid highjack my private vidfeed again, I will shoot you myself, Forrest. Understand me? Deloris was following along with an eggs benedict recipe for breakfast and the damn Sphere company wanted to charge twenty bucks to watch it again. Thieving bastards. Regardless, it’s a good thing that the droid did get me the doctored footage alongside the real street camera footage. I was able to give that to the Baton Rouge PD and get you released. What the hell are you doing in Baton Rouge? Didn’t I ask you to look into something closer to home? Call me when you get out.”

Everything about my arrest was fuzzy and I didn’t remember having Andi send the two pieces of evidence to Chief Brubaker, but I guess I did.

I remembered the officers putting me in handcuffs and me telling them to check the vidfeed logs because I was just trying to run away from the VirtuaPharm enforcement team. The feed had already been altered by that point, removing any trace of the men in the riot gear, but thankfully Andi had recorded the footage in real time and witnesses at the scene corroborated my story about a giant security droid wreaking havoc outside the apartment complex. Of course, the massive chunk of torn up pavement helped.

Then, whatever those goons had shot me with finally took over and everything else went totally black. When I woke up in the hospital, I wasn’t in handcuffs or in jail, so something must have gone right. I eyed the data chip suspiciously. Before I logged onto that, I needed a non-networked computer and I needed to call the chief.

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