Tenants by Christopher Motz

Author:Christopher Motz [Motz, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Christian sat up with a hiss as his temples throbbed in time with his heartbeat.

The sun was up, and although it was overcast, the light was bright enough to drill into the soft tissue of his brain. His cell phone said it was 11:13 in the morning. He hadn't received any calls or texts, which made him believe he was still in the clear. If there was a manhunt, and anyone had recognized his face, his phone would have exploded with questions and accusations.

Maybe it was just that easy to get away with murder in 2019.

The question now was if Linda had left her apartment since he'd fallen asleep.

He stepped out onto the street and found himself completely alone. There was no traffic, no dogs barking, no kids playing. Christian had never seen a neighborhood so devoid of life before except for old news footage of Pripyat.

You left me for this? He thought.

He grabbed his phone and closed the car door, startled by how loud it sounded in the unnatural quiet. He thought of getting the gun from beneath the seat but knew he wouldn't need it. He didn't require a weapon to put Linda in her place, and it would be much more fun using his bare hands instead. He could almost feel the flesh of her neck giving way beneath his firm grasp, digging his thumbs into her windpipe as her eyes rolled back in her head.

He instantly got hard.

"First time you turned me on in a while," he said. "There's something wrong with you, my friend." But he didn't believe that, not at all. What was wrong was that Linda thought she could do better somewhere else. It wasn't his fault. Women always think the grass is greener on the other side of the hill, and he was here to remind her that it simply wasn't true. Whatever happened now was because of her actions, and she deserved every bit of grief she had coming.

And if that wrinkled old bastard tried to step in again, he was in for a world of hurt.

Christian walked to the end of the alley where it intersected Delaney Street and stopped. In broad daylight, this was the closest he wanted to get to Linda's apartment. He couldn't risk being seen sneaking around in the street. He knew she'd have no problem calling the police, and if it came to that, this was all for nothing. He stood on the corner and spied her Prius sitting in front of the Blackridge. It hadn't moved since last night.

All he had to do was wait for nightfall. Under cover of darkness, he could sneak inside, hide in a maintenance closet until the coast was clear. The look on her face would be priceless.

After another minute of getting familiar with his surroundings, he returned to his car and hunkered down in the front seat. He was in this thing for the long haul; if everything came down to the next eight hours, it was worth the wait.

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