No Good Man by Rebecca Lee Wesson

Author:Rebecca Lee Wesson [Wesson, Rebecca Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creative Texts Publishers, LLC
Published: 2024-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Trust Building

In the quiet lobby of 55 Church Street, next to the dead priest trapped inside the old bell, Kim stood with her arms and legs spread while Hazel Eyes gave the back of her head and shoulders a pat down.

“You guys have girlfriends?” She asked his four straight-faced colleagues, who stood by and observed robotically.

“Boyfriends?” She asked when they did not respond.

Hazel Eyes moved on to her back and patted over her thin white blouse that was tucked into her snug blue jeans. He stepped around to her front and swept his hands hurriedly through the middle of her chest and underneath it, then quickly moved to her waist, hips, and ankles.

“Families? Kids?” Kim asked them.

Hazel Eyes pointed to her boots.

“Take them off,” he instructed.

“They don’t come off,” Kim scoffed, dropping her hands to her hips.

“Take them off,” he said again, then reached for the handgun on the back of his belt.

Kim rolled her eyes and took the boots off, then let him remove the knife attached to her right ankle. When her boots were back on, he and two of the other men escorted her to an open elevator. They rode in silence to the twenty-fourth floor, where she exited with Hazel Eyes and walked the short distance to the entrance of the condominium.

As they approached the door, two men Kim recognized from Eddie’s office pushed it open and walked out in a hurry.

“Pardon,” Mayor Clancy said, scooting past her with an armful of leather tubes that were nearly as tall as he was.

“Good luck, sister,” Commissioner Garrick mumbled, following him.

Kim watched them walk into the elevator and exchange a relieved look, like their lives had just been spared, and that was not what they had expected. Hazel Eyes tapped her shoulder and pointed to the open entrance, and once she was inside, he closed the door and left her alone in the dark space.

She stepped forward slowly, unsure where to go. Hazel Eyes appeared again out of a shadow and guided her into the living room left of the entrance. He motioned for her to sit on a giant grey modular sofa in the southwestern corner of the space where the two walls of windows met.

“I’ll stand,” Kim said with her back to the windows, the sofa to her right, and the large dining table to her left.

Hazel Eyes looked unsettled, like resistance was not something he was normally told to accommodate. Then he nodded, crossed his arms behind his back, and watched her. Kim tried to distract herself by looking at the scant decoration around her, a bit concerned with the lack of options to defend herself with if the moment came.

In front of the sofa was a large metal and glass coffee table, and on the other side of it were two armchairs. There were heavy side tables with photography books on top, but all of it was too bulky to lift or too futile to bother with. She looked at the wooden chairs around

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