Nurse Becky Gets Shot by Gary Baker

Author:Gary Baker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Thrillers, Fiction
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: 2010-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Roger stood looking out of his hotel window thinking how lucky he was. From the sixth floor of the Tower Thistle hotel he looked down at the motor yachts moored in St Katherine's Dock. When he'd realised which hotel he was to be in he'd hoped for a room with a view of Tower Bridge. But this was better. The stuff of fantasies. Imagine owning and travelling around the world in one of these ladies. One magnificent dame could have fit several London buses on her deck and even had tinted windows so the plebs on the dock walking by couldn't see in.

Roger watched a very ordinary looking couple - he wore shorts and a tea-shirt and pushed a stroller with a toddler, she was laden with shopping bags – get on board and disappear inside. Who were those people and why can't I have one? Only mine would have more chrome and some kind of flag with a yet to be designed family crest on it.

Roger's reveries were interrupted by the flushing of the toilet.

'You still there?' said Lenny from the bathroom. When Roger failed to answer Lenny dashed into the room still doing up his zip. Seeing Roger looking at him with some amusement, Lenny nodded and returned to the bathroom to wash his hands.

Lenny's mobile phone, lying on a mahogany side-table, started to play the theme tune from Mission Impossible.

Damn, thought Roger, that will be in my head all day now. Duurm duurm dum dum duurm duurm dum dum duurm duurm dum dum …

Lenny jogged back from the bathroom and flipped the mobile to his ear. 'Boss?' he said.

Roger turned back to the view. The shit should be hitting the fan about now, he thought.

From Roger's vantage point, six floors up, the dark green water of St Katherine's Dock was mirror smooth. The typical white sky over London bleached the colours of boats, buildings and people. A huge luxury motor cruiser was moored to his right. A row of bright white motor and sailing boats was moored to his left breaking up the reflection of a milk chocolate brown row of shops and apartments.

Lenny mumbled into his mobile. Roger tuned him out.

A ripple in the water's surface caught Roger's eye and he noticed some wooden jetties had been placed so they sloped gently into the water. A pair of swans were nesting on one jetty, seemingly oblivious to the city around them. On the other side of the dock moor hens had similarly built a nest. Tourists ambled over bridges and sipped expensive coffee just a few yards from the birds. Amazing how wild creatures will set up home in what would appear to be the most alien of spaces. The wild birds had successfully tuned out humanity, mated, nested and reared young. Was this a glimpse of the future? Humanity spread across the globe like mould in a Petri dish; all other life reduced to living on small island rectangles of converted trees.

'Yes, he's here.' Lenny's words cut through Roger's thoughts.

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