Shadows Everywhere by John Lutz

Author:John Lutz [Lutz, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery & Crime
ISBN: 9781561460199
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 1994-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He went into the bathroom and got dressed quickly, mercilessly splashing ice-cold tap water over his face.

The low, rambling Bain Corporation warehouse was like an island of light in the dark night. The beige brick looked almost white and very clean in the harsh glare from the overhead dusk to dawn lights and the beams of the ground-level spots. Day parked his car off Palmer Road and walked back toward the light, keeping to the shadows as much as possible. To his right the skeletal beams of a half-finished building rose against the starless sky. He was approaching the Bain warehouse from behind and to one side, and when he saw the lighted loading and receiving dock, with its few trailers backed into some of the overhead doors, he grew more cautious.

Day saw that one of the trailers had been backed into a door next to the one Grindle and Costa would use. That would shield them almost completely from the street, and only darkness stretched in the other direction, dotted in the distance by some tiny pinpoints of light.

It was quarter to five. They wouldn't be here for fifteen minutes, and probably just about now were calling in and reporting a prowler at the electric company plant two miles away. Day worked his way closer, concealing himself in a deep shadow near a portable trash container right next to the side of the building. The trash had a sweet, nauseating odor, and Day didn't want to have to stay there long.

Grindle and Costa walked silently past, within thirty feet of Day, but they didn't see him. Day stayed in the deep shadows and drew his revolver from his holster.

He heard a slight metallic clanking and then the low rolling sound of the overhead loading door going up. He got between the building and the trash container, worked himself to the corner and peered around, but there was nothing to be seen. Grindle and Costa had silently lowered the door behind them so their way of access couldn't he spotted from outside. They'd also extinguished the outside lights near that door for added concealment.

Day waited, watching. When Costa left to get the car he would work in behind a nearby parked trailer where he could get off a clear shot.

As he waited, the brassy taste of excitement rose in Day's throat. Nervousness, he decided, as he inched forward. He took a deep breath, then smiled confidently to himself, and that's when he realized the guilt, the shame. For the first time he admitted it to himself. He was enjoying this. He was actually enjoying himself!

The shot from inside the building wasn't very loud, like the single, flat blow of a hammer.

Day straightened and caught the sweet stench of the trash. "No...he whispered to himself. "No!" Then he was running, away from the loading area and toward the front of the building. Within a minute he'd broken the thick glass of a front door with the butt of his revolver and was inside.

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