Love's Lost Star by Caitlin M. Smith

Author:Caitlin M. Smith [Smith, Caitlin M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Fiction
Publisher: Ambassador International
Published: 2021-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Three to One

12:20 p.m.

As Tommy and Marley surveilled Jason, Tommy frowned. His wonderful, just slightly bad character was about to be compromised on a silly mission. If Marley complained about one more thing, he would snap. He tried desperately to distract himself from the annoying comments that flooded forth from his friend. Grabbing a chocolate bar from his back pocket, he opened the wrapper. His body had melted the treat, which now stuck to its foil covering. Finding he could not eat the treat as he would a regular candy bar, he began licking the wrapper.

He stood next to Marley on the sidewalk, a grayish-brown fence at their backs. To avoid suspicion, the two occasionally strolled down the street, looked in a shop window, went back to their post at the fence, looked over their shoulders to watch Jason, talked, leaned against the fence, and so forth.

They fumbled around all morning as they followed from a distance. They kept on the opposite sidewalk as he went to work and returned home. Although they were particularly proud of their creeping, it wasn’t necessary. Their target appeared to be in a haze that kept him from noticing anything. Tommy was convinced that a tiger could have walked to the workstation, danced on its hind legs, sung a song, and Jason would not have noticed. Perhaps the tiger could have just eaten him and saved them the trouble of all this walking. He shook his head. Although he didn’t wish any harm upon the man, Jason was unwittingly making him suffer. Marley had been driving him nuts. Up to this point, he was proud of his ability to tolerate the boss’ antics, but his patience was wearing thin.

When Jason had returned home, they reclaimed their position across the street from his house.

Tommy sighed. “I’m pretty sure this is the most boring day of my life.” As he spoke, an elderly woman inched her way across the sidewalk directly in front of the house. “Yep, no question,” he confirmed.

“Would you quit your complaining?” Marley snapped. “Nobody likes surveillance, but you still gotta do it. All the experts do.”

He got the feeling that only half of what Marley said was actually true. First of all, he was pretty sure that Marley loved surveillance. Even back in their heavier crime days, the boss seemed to take a perverse pride in the practice—perhaps because he thought that watching people made him an expert.

“If he’s taking a break for lunch, why can’t we?”

“You and your food.” Marley rolled his eyes. “Say we do follow that stomach of yours and go eat. Then, that pathetic wretch comes home when we’re gone, and everything’s over because you’re hungry. Do you want all this time we’ve spent to be for nothing? We’ll wait.”

He couldn’t take it anymore. “I’ve had it up to here with you! First, you get mad at me for talking with food in my mouth. Then, my walk’s too loud. Next, the way I lean against a fence looks suspicious.

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