Return of the Nomad (Ana Delgado Book 1) by Beatrix Banner

Author:Beatrix Banner [Banner, Beatrix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

We were meant to arrive at Fitness Flex bright and early the next morning. We were not going to call in advance this time, and I was looking forward to the look on Tanner’s face when he saw us. Particularly when he saw Archie again for the second time in hours.

But Archie stuck his head around my bedroom door at around eight and said he had to head into the station early. There had been a break in their poisoning case and he had rescheduled Tanner’s interview for sometime later in the week.

I was not about to waste an early morning, so I figured I would head over to Fitness Flex and talk to Tanner myself. I had heeded Archie’s warning yesterday, and wasn’t planning on kicking his ass. It would be a very different fight to the last couple I had involved myself in, as this guy was not only a black belt in Jujutsu, but also appeared to have at least a half of a brain.

I arrived around nine and held open the gigantic glass door for an older woman named Mabel I met on the sidewalk outside.

“Have a great workout, Mabel!” I hollered after her as she shuffled to her Active Living Jazzercise class, enjoying the echo the high ceilings of the lobby afforded while I looked around to see if I could spot Tanner anywhere.

I could not, and headed over to the reception desk where the lovely young lady that Archie had so admired the last time we were there was tending to her duties.

“Hi there! I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of Daniel Tanner?”

“Hey! Welcome to Fitness Flex, my name’s Janice. Daniel Tanner, you say?” Her long nails clacked on the keys for ten seconds or so and then her head popped up so she could look me straight in the eye with an uncomfortably friendly smile. “He’s just finishing up a kiddies class in the main hall, if you can wait five minutes or so?” she said in her unnaturally chipper voice.

I smiled at her and thanked her, then headed in the direction her terrifying nails had pointed.

I arrived at a set of double doors and peered through the glass in the middle. Tanner stood in the center of a circle of a group of cross-legged, what I assumed were ten-year-olds. At least somewhere in that area. He looked very serious, and I gently pushed one of the doors open a little to listen in on what he was saying.

“...you just, you don’t need it, kids. You don’t need to be anywhere near it. I had a friend who got into all of that kinda stuff. You know.” He paused to take a long, drawn out sigh. I couldn’t decide if it was dramatic or not. “She-she was hooked on this stuff called heroin. Anyone here ever heard that word before?”

He waited for a second and several hands went up. “Yeah. You guys.” He pointed at one of the younger looking kids.

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