Marshall Law by Paul Kilmartin

Author:Paul Kilmartin [Kilmartin, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

NUMBER THREE

Detective Lance Marshall awoke at 7am, from habit, rather than choice. It had been the habit of a lifetime, instilled in him from his father when he was as young as he remembered. It had gotten to be such a habit, that now, he didn't even need to set the alarm. His body knew, and accordingly, he woke, whether he was fully rested, or not.

This morning, he was not, but woke regardless and dragged himself into a shower. He set the dial to blue, for cold, and he iced away that tired feeling through shallow breaths as his lungs adjusted to the feeling of being constricted. Raising the temperature a little, he washed and shaved his face underneath the showerhead.

Marshall stepped from the shower and walked into the adjoining bedroom. It was a big room, built for two, but long since occupied by just one person, and in the larger space, he had managed to make the whole room appear cluttered. The routine, was the same as every other morning had been for the past while. Lance would try something on, decide against it, and then leave it on a chair near the foot of the bed. The chair now held at least two weeks worth of clothes, so by now, Lance was rifling through shirts that were laying out on the back of the chair.

He had checked his phone, when he awoke and seeing no new messages or missed calls, dismissed the object and set about getting his morning started. Lance had possessed a smart phone for a while, but when after a week, he had managed to get two Facebook friends and see the same emails that he saw in work, but now carried around with him, he abandoned the technology and downgraded.

Marshall's life was in such a place, that if it were not for work, and had he fallen down and died, it may take a while before someone noticed that he was missing. Piece by piece, Lance Marshall, was coming undone.

Lance grabbed his keys from a plate near the door and made for Andy's to grab breakfast before the morning briefing, where hopefully, someone would have solved this case for him.

It went without saying that Andy's was always busy in the morning with the surge of local traders and Cops, but this morning, it was especially active.

Lance Marshall waited at the door and stretched his arms in the air, to get the attention of a rushed waitress, so she could find him a seat. Today of all days, the normal rules did not apply. He had never noticed, in all the years that he had come to Andy's, the sign that was placed at the entrance, Please Wait To Be Seated. The place was wall to wall with people, and they all seemed to be talking at the same time.

One by one, they noticed the well-built Detective at the door, and one by one, they started to go quietly. It had never been like this

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