No Quarter by Michael Todd & Michael Anderle & Laurie Starkey

Author:Michael Todd & Michael Anderle & Laurie Starkey [Todd, Michael & Anderle, Michael & Starkey, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-07-01T06:00:00+00:00

The detectives had watched Katie disappear into the club, the three of them gathering farther down the street. The night was warm and there were tons of people around, but none of them had realized what was going on. They sat nervously glancing at the doors, looking down at their watches sporadically as they waited for something to happen.

“What is taking so long?” Lowery bitched through a cloud of cigar smoke.

“She’s working her magic,” Schultz replied.

“Hopefully in this millennium,” Lowery huffed.

Without warning, the doors to the club flew wide open and eight red-eyed people came bolting out into the street. The cops jumped into action, using their stun guns to take them down. In the chaos, two of them managed to slip through the net. The ones they caught were thrown into the back of the truck and sent off to their local holding facility.

“Goddammit, we missed two of them,” Brown growled, walking up to the detectives. “The sneaky bastards. They crept right past while we were dealing with the others.”

“You got six, though, and that’s a record,” Schultz pointed out.

Brown sighed. “Yeah, but we do things to perfection in the Nineteenth. That should have been a cakewalk. She might as well have gift-wrapped them for us.”

A few moments later the door to the club opened again and Katie walked out, pulling her hair back into a ponytail. She nodded at Schultz and walked up to the group. “How did it go? It wasn’t too bad in there tonight.”

“They got six out of the eight,” Lowery replied.

“Where did the other two run?”

Brown pointed down the block, and Katie sighed.

Don’t do it. It’s not your freaking job.

I know. Katie sighed. I need to let the other two go. If I don’t, they’ll assume I’ll always be there to fix all of their mistakes. It’s fucking annoying, though. I served them up on a platter for them, and they should have had them in the bag. I know I’ve got to teach them what to do. That’s why I’m here.

Precisely. Besides, those two will get caught eventually. They ran, which means their demons aren’t going to stay hidden for long.

“We’ll wrap things up here,” Lowery told her. “Thanks for your help. We don’t work with the Damned often, but this was good. We’ll round up the other two, and next time we’ll get ‘em all.”

Katie nodded and followed Travers and Schulz to the car. They headed back to the station across from the Stewart and dealt with all the paperwork. Katie had to sign a couple of things, but mostly she was just there to make sure everyone got updated. When they were done, Schultz handed her an envelope. “Here’s your consulting fee. Thanks again for helping.”

“No problem.” Katie smiled as she stuffed the envelope into her back pocket. “I’m sure we’ll be working together a lot in the future.”

Katie left the precinct and crossed to the Stewart Hotel, thankful she was done much earlier than she’d thought. The night manager had come on duty, and he waved Katie over to the desk.

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