Pledge of Honor by J.T. Brannan

Author:J.T. Brannan [Brannan, J.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Publisher: Grey Arrow
Published: 2015-09-15T23:00:00+00:00

7

The cops were right behind him, but Cole didn’t care; Agostini wouldn’t get away from him, whatever it took.

And so, even as the police shouted instructions for him to give himself up, he too pushed past the bewildered ticket collector and leapt aboard one of the Ferris wheel cars. It already contained a young family – a husband and wife who looked shocked and fearful, two little children who looked amazed and excited – but Cole ignored them as he turned back to the operator.

‘Ne pas l'arrêter!’ he shouted to the man – Don’t stop it! – as the big wheel slowly turned, taking him airborne.

He looked up, saw that Agostini was just halfway up to the top, and – with the police still calling to him – he turned to the family whose car he had invaded. ‘I’m very sorry about this,’ he said, ‘but I won’t be here for long.’ He smiled, and gestured upward. ‘Please excuse me.’

And with that, he pulled himself up onto the railings of the exposed, swinging car, grasping hold of the roof with both hands. Steadying himself, he levered his body up and over until he was sitting on top of the car, the kids below squealing with joy as their parents struggled to calm them.

And then he was moving again, the wind picking up as he rose higher and threatening to dislodge him; but his fingers held tight as he found the curved metal of the wheel that connected the cars together and pulled himself off the roof altogether.

Gripping with his knees to either side of the structure, he extended his arms, released his knees, then pulled upward before securing his knees again.

The metal was cold, and as he climbed higher – past car after car, some empty, some with passengers who reacted with a mixture of screams and laughter – the wind continued to pick up, threatening to blow him off the exposed structure of the big wheel at any moment.

But still he perservered, until the crowds below – tourists, fishermen and police alike – were mere insects, all but indistinguishable from one another.

He looked up again, the wind forcing him to close his eyes to narrow slits so that he could see properly, and – his arms and legs aching with the effort of climbing – he was relieved to see that the next car was the one that held his quarry, just feet from the very apex of the wheel’s huge arc.

But Agostini saw him at the same time, his eyes wide with stunned disbelief.

The shock didn’t last long though and the man quickly pulled out his pistol and fired it toward Cole.

Cole instinctively shrunk back behind the curved metal, the shots going wide or ricocheting off the hard surface; but his rapid reaction, combined with a gust of wind, made him lose his grip on the structure with his knees, and then with one of his hands, until his body span out over the hard concrete plaza a

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