Realms of Shadow by Barry James

Author:Barry James [James, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy, Fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

The Orange Cab dropped Becky Reynolds outside her brownstone in Capitol Hill just after 8:00. After the nightmare at the Starbucks she’d been too shaken to drive herself home, so one of the police officers had been kind enough to call her a taxi.

The neighborhood where Becky lived was one of the older areas of Seattle; technically the brownstone was in North Capitol Hill, one of the more historical areas of the city. It was a quiet and well-kept neighborhood, a nice place to live. The architecture of the older buildings and the tree-lined streets had been big factors in her decision to purchase the renovated condo. Now, as she walked up the sidewalk bordered by well-manicured boxwood hedges to the entrance of the three-story brownstone, she appreciated the surrounding peace even more.

She could never have afforded this place if her parents hadn’t subsidized her monthly payments. After she’d had a few glasses of Pinot she’d have to call mom and pop and thank them again. Her next thought was to thank God that she could still do that. She stopped in the entryway, her emotions taking over; keys shaking in her hand, she quietly sobbed before the curved glass-paneled door leading into the condo.

Becky still didn’t understand what had happened—what the red thing was that had come through the door—what it had done to those people! She knew, given the chance, that the monster would have done the same to her. That customer and his friends had saved her…Jason, Jeremy, she couldn’t remember his name, but she knew how he liked his coffee, lots of milk and a ton of sugar. Because they’d saved her life, she hadn’t told the police what she saw him change into: the pale man with black eyes and curved nails. She just told the policewoman that she’d run into the alley to escape the monster.

Josh…no, not that either…had been scary looking, but not as terrifying as the red thing. Neither he nor his friends had told her not to talk to anyone or threatened her in any way. Once they’d escaped from the Starbucks, the big guy with the beard and gun had pushed her toward the alley’s exit while he and the others stayed behind to stop…to stop whatever it was that was coming after her. But Becky felt that pointing out her savior to the police wasn’t going to help the cops capture that monster. It would only make things difficult for him and his friends, and she wasn’t going to thank them for saving her that way. She’d done enough when she told the police what it had looked like. What it had done.

It had all sounded so crazy when she’d heard herself answering the policewoman’s questions, but there were more than enough witnesses—she’d heard them talking, crying around her—that she knew it was true. The police had enough information to know that a real monster had been there. The nightmare had happened…it was real. Wiping her eyes with

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