Hunter by Huggins James Byron

Author:Huggins, James Byron [Huggins, James Byron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: James Byron Huggins
Published: 2013-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Chaney had parked his car a few blocks away, near a corner. As he walked toward it, he kept wondering what in the hell that article had to do with anything. He knew it was important but it didn't make any sense. Whatever beast was captured in those pictures was long dead. But clearly it meant something to the good doctor. Maybe it would mean something to Gina.

A couple, arm in arm, passed him.

Chaney nodded, hands in pockets, and continued strolling. He passed a group of older guys playing basketball, engaged in trash talk. He laughed, remembering the days.

The city was slowly coming alive with those who tended to wake up at night, like vampires. Already, in the few minutes he'd been walking, it had grown more congested. Not bustling by any means, but not as dead as it had been in late afternoon.

Two guys off to the side were doing what appeared to be a drug deal. Chaney glanced at them, grunted, let it go.

The pieces were beginning to fit together—the creature, the killing team, the betrayal. The one thing that didn't fit was the death of Rebecca Tanus. She had discovered something important about this creature's genetic structure. But what would be so important about DNA that it would justify murder? He just couldn't understand a professional hit that—

Shadow—

Something happening—

React!

Chaney went for his gun without seeing an enemy and sensed what was coming a second before it hit. He knew what it was by feel, by the glimpse of gray and steel beyond his head. A pipe. He went down—arm dead—and they were on him but his arm wouldn't work and the Sig .45—a black matte weapon useless on cement—was at his feet as he rolled to avoid a second blow.

The pipe, crashing down beside his ear in the hands of a huge black man, sent fragments of cement across his face and Chaney kicked up, trying for the groin. But the man was an experienced fighter and blocked the kick with his thigh as the second man swung another pipe, glancing the steel off Chaney's cheek before it crashed across his chest, doubling him in breathless shock.

For a moment Chaney knew nothing, no breath, not even pain, though he knew he was hurt bad, and then the bigger one grabbed his shirt, Lifting him half from the ground as he stretched his arm back, pipe tight in a square fist.

Chaney didn't have time to be afraid of the glaring eyes and the rage. At the moment the swing began he withdrew the concealed .38 from his ankle and, like a boxer throwing an uppercut, brought it up under the man's chin and fired. At the shot the second man jumped back and Chaney swung fast, still breathless, targeting. The attacker leaped and ran.

"Don't!" Chaney shouted.

The man ran faster and Chaney took careful aim with the last of his control, pulled the trigger. It hit dead-center in the spine and for a suspended slow-motion moment the man

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