In Death's Shadow by Kal Spriggs

Author:Kal Spriggs [Spriggs, Kal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sutek Press
Published: 2020-03-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Amanda dropped me off at my hotel. We’d broken off our meeting and agreed to meet later, but in the meantime, Amanda and I both needed some sleep. I didn’t linger to watch her SUV pull away, I just felt tired and confused by everything I had learned. Secret religious orders and werewolves from hell were a bit too much for me.

As I stepped into the lobby, I realized that I was in trouble.

"Ari Kiehl," Detective Schoellhorn barked, "put your hands in the air, do it now!"

I froze in the doorway and slowly raised my hands. He and two other cops moved up. Two of them caught my arms and twisted them painfully behind me and then kicked my legs out from under me. I winced as they bent my arms behind my back and then one of them patted me down and found my pistol.

"I have a permit for that," I said quickly. Schoellhorn scowled as an officer handed him my Springfield. "Nice pistol," he said. "But you're supposed to notify an officer first thing if you're carrying. So I'll have to hold onto it. Might just run prints and see if the casings would match any crime scenes, how about that?"

I shrugged, "Feel free." I hoped that Amanda had found my bullet casings when I’d shot Richard Santana and I hoped that the police hadn’t decided to ignore Detective Martinez and investigate the church shooting. If not, that might be a problem.

Detective Schoellhorn didn't miss my new scrapes and bruises, "Been in a firefight?" He asked.

"Uh," I said. I saw Sam had come up behind the man. Please, I thought, for your own sake, don't put me at risk. I didn't much like Schoellhorn, but that didn't mean I wanted his blood on my hands. "I tripped and fell." That was true, sort of. I'd tripped over a Catholic Commando and I'd fallen after throwing a grenade back out through a window.

"Right," Schoellhorn said. He leaned over me, his bloodshot blue eyes meeting mine. I could see he hadn't shaved in a few days and he looked like he'd slept less than me. I couldn't help but notice that even kneeling in front of him, I was nearly as tall as he was. "You know, I have half a mind to bring you into the precinct."

"I haven't done anything wrong," I said.

"There's fourteen dead police officers," Schoellhorn snapped. "And if I find out you had anything to do with their deaths, I'll make damned sure you spend the rest of your life behind bars."

"Detective," I said, "I swear to you, I want whoever killed those men to face justice."

He stepped back, scowling. "Where were you at two PM today?" He asked.

Trying not to get shot by a lunatic, I thought. "I swung by a church," I said. "Why?"

"I'm asking the questions," Schoellhorn grated. "You don't strike me as the religious type, Ari. Much less the type to go to church."

"You'd be amazed at what I'm willing to believe in," I answered truthfully.

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