Look the Other Way by Leigh Jones

Author:Leigh Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leigh Jones
Published: 2020-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

As soon as the meeting ended, Kate stuffed her laptop into her bag and dashed to her car. While she drove toward The Clipper, she punched Johnson’s number into her cell phone. She would tell him what she knew in hopes he would let her know if the chief ordered some kind of surveillance. If the police saw what she’d seen, they’d move in right away to make arrests.

She got his voicemail.

“Hey. It’s Kate. I’m just leaving the council meeting. I asked the mayor a few questions about the hotel, just to get his reaction. He said he’d never heard anything about it. But after we talked, he went and made a phone call that made him late to rejoin the meeting after the recess. He looked really flustered. I think he might have called the chief to tell him to have you guys check it out. If you hear anything, can you call me? Please?”

Kate parked in the same spot she’d used the night before, near Slava’s room. She cursed softly as she looked down the passageway to the front of the hotel. It hadn’t seemed so dark with the confident Ukrainian by her side. A tremor of fear rumbled through her. She shook it off and snorted derisively. “Chicken. What are you scared of?”

With one more shake of her head, Kate opened the car door and grabbed her notebook out of her laptop bag. As she slammed the door closed, the dense night air swallowed the dull thud. Kate took a deep breath and strode toward the walkway that skirted the side of the building and led to the front of the hotel. Her heart hammered in her ears. Each shallow, rapid breath puffed into the abyss in front of her. Her determined walk quickened to a slow jog. After about fifteen steps, she could see the light outside Slava’s friends’ room glowing faintly ahead. She sighed out a low laugh and slowed her pace.

“Nothing to be afraid of,” she told herself as she prepared to round the corner.

The blow came from her right. She never saw a thing. It knocked her into the building, the rough concrete tearing into her shoulder. The air rushed out of her lungs as strong hands grasped her elbows and pinned her arms behind her back, pressing her face-first into the wall.

“Are you sure about that, chica?”

Terror burst through her stunned surprise. She yelped. The man grabbed her hair and slammed her head into the wall. A starburst of pain radiated across her forehead. She gasped and whimpered.

“Silencio! Don’t make a sound or you’ll regret it.”

The tang of stale cigarettes clung to every word he spat in her face. Kate’s stomach heaved. The man pressed himself up against her, sliding his hand down her side and squeezing her butt. When she tried to struggle, he tightened his grip.

“Feisty. Mmmmm... Me gusta!” He gyrated against her.

Fear surged in her chest. Why hadn’t she called Slava to tell him she was coming? Despair constricted her heart.

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