NO MORE FEAR - BRANDY, P.I.: A suspenseful mystery thriller by J D Wilde

Author:J D Wilde [Wilde, J D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-05T22:00:00+00:00

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Brandy was walking over to work from the subway the following Monday morning. It was a cloudy day with temperatures in the high seventies. Under her arm was an umbrella. She wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice; the weatherman had promised sunshine and a partly clouded sky in a couple of hours, but who knew if that would happen. For all she knew, rain would start pouring in the next five minutes or, at the very least, when she was on her way back home.. It had taken her forever to get herself presentable in the ladies’ room after she’d been drenched in rainwater, having to dry her hair and reapply some of her makeup. Needless to say, Angela had been pissed about it. If Brandy’s appointment hadn’t been late that morning, she’d probably have been fired.

There was a narrow alley to the right of her, a block before she’d reach the Hilton building. It was generally full of trashcans, old furniture, and the occasional homeless person. The smell wasn’t pleasant either. Like most people who walked on that street, Brandy usually picked up her pace when she was about to pass it, but today she spotted a neatly dressed small kid at the entrance. A boy who couldn’t be more than five years old. He looked upset, his small face red. Alarmed, she stopped, then walked up to the kid.

“Hi,” she said and sank to her haunches. “Are you lost? Where’s your mommy?”

The boy pointed into the alley “She’s sick behind the trashcans. She needs help. Can you help her?”

“Your mommy’s sick?”

The kid nodded hard and sniffled. He had big, expressive eyes that shone with tears.

“But how did she end up over there?” Brandy asked, and in response, the kid stretched out a small hand in her direction. She took it and let him lead her into the alley, behind a tall IKEA bookshelf with broken shelves. She breathed through her mouth to avoid the stench.

When she didn’t see a woman on the ground, she instinctively sensed something was wrong. The kid let go of her hand as someone came up from behind and pulled a bag over her head. Her throat tightened with terror as her hands went up to the bag, clawing at it. Someone else was helping the person, because she could feel more than one set of hands grabbing at her, jerking her hands from her face. The other person brought them behind her back. She heard some angry murmuring, then sounds of small feet running. She could feel something sharp and cold pressed against her neck. Was that a knife? It had to be. A chill surged through her. What happened to the kid? Was that him running away?

“If you scream, I’ll slit your throat,” a husky male voice muttered into her ear. “One wrong move and you’re dead. Nod if you understand.”

Trembling with terror, she nodded as much as she could with that knife threatening to slice her neck. She could feel someone put a pair of zip ties around her wrists.

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