Lee Killough by The Doppelganger Gambit

Author:The Doppelganger Gambit [Gambit, The Doppelganger]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-06-03T21:37:30+00:00

Mama pushed his glasses up his nose. “Except which of the guards left in the middle of the shift Saturday night.”

The guard stared at them. “Left? None of us left during the shift.”

Janna shook her head. “Wrong. He was seen leaving. He took off his jacket so he wouldn’t seem to be wearing a uniform.” She paused. “Was it you?”

“No!” His face set. “I don’t know what anyone thought they saw, but it wasn’t one of us leaving. We were all three there the entire shift. Maybe your witness saw someone disguised as a guard.”

They could not move him from that. They headed for the next name on the list.

“He has a point,” Mama said. “Maybe Hazlett thought he could fool a possible witness that way.” “You don’t really believe that.” Mama looked wistful, then shook his head. “No. He would have worn the entire uniform. The guard’s lying.”

“They all may, and stick to it.”

“We’ll shake them.”

She looked at him. “The peeps couldn’t make you and Wim change your minds about denying you carried a shooter on duty.”

His eyes slid toward her. “So he told you about that.”

“He wanted to warn me what your partners can find themselves involved in.”

Mama opened his mouth as though to start a protest, then closed it again and sat back, shrugging. “I didn’t ask him to lie for me. Wim was a good back-up.”

The second guard also denied that anyone had left duty, but as he did, his pupils dilated. They smelled fear in him.

“Well, that’s too bad,” Janna said with a sigh. “We didn’t want to bring your employers at the bank into this, but¯”

“We’ll have to,” Mama interrupted. “It’ll probably mean all three of you will be fired.” He turned as though to leave.

The guard went gray. “Wait.”

Mama stopped.

“There’s no point getting the others in trouble. They’re just covering for me. I’m the one who left.”

“Why?”

“It was nothing to do with that business upstairs. There was trouble here at home, a fight between my wives. I had to stop it.” He was sweating. “Don’t tell the bank. I wasn’t gone more than an hour.”

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