Lady Justice and the Mysterious Box by Robert Thornhill

Author:Robert Thornhill [Thornhill, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

On the way back to Kansas City, I pondered several questions. Stokes and Steele knew I had given them the slip. Ishmael was supposed to have spread the word that I’d delivered the box to a safe house. Did they believe I had done so and were out of my life or was it one of their agents who had taken out the man I was to meet?

If it was one of their agents, they would know I still had the box, meaning everyone in my building was still in danger.

On the other hand, if it wasn’t one of their agents, that meant some other entity was after the box.

Neither of those scenarios gave me any comfort. After all, I still had the box and at least one agency, and maybe others would be coming after it.

I had to get rid of it once and for all. I needed to talk to Ishmael.

Before returning to my apartment building, I stopped at a grocery store and bought some stuff which I had the checker pack into two large paper bags. In my car. I put all the groceries in one and the box in the other. I hoped that if Stokes and Steele were watching they would think I had just bought groceries.

I cruised the street a few blocks in each direction before parking. I didn’t see the blue sedan but that didn’t mean that the two agents weren’t close by.

It was after seven o’clock when I entered my apartment. I hurriedly stashed the box and went to greet Maggie.

“Hi Sweetie. I’m home.”

She gave me a big smooch. “I just got home too. Did you stop and get supper on the way home?”

I had been so busy mulling over my predicament that I forgot to eat. “Actually, no I didn’t.”

“Well, neither have I. How about ordering a pizza?”

“Works for me.”

I stripped off and took a long hot shower while we waited for the pizza. I had just poured two glasses of Arbor Mist when it arrived.

After we had polished off the last crumb, Maggie snuggled up to me. “Last night you asked for a rain check. Are you ready to cash it in?”

For the second night in a row, I begged off, saying I was just dog tired from my long road trip. Maggie didn’t press the issue, but I could see she was surprised. In all of our years together, I had never turned down such an opportunity even once, let alone twice!

Before turning in, I pasted a big X on the window.

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