The Dark Theatre by Cyrus Winters

Author:Cyrus Winters [Winters, Cyrus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 33

Present Day

When under pressure, the mind tends to go back. To a time in your life before all the problems started. Rose was on a timetable and a schedule – she had duties and responsibilities in both shadow and light. The mixing, the twisting, the grinding of the expectations cast upon her left her numb and unfeeling. She did what needed to be done. She put the car on the road and headed the designated path. But her mind was elsewhere. In the background. Conjuring sights and sounds of events long past. She craved that time again. How she would have loved to go back to that night in the woods…

Rose looked up. The car had stopped. She was sitting nearby the C.I.D. building a few minutes before her four o’clock meeting. She suddenly had a pang of regret, that maybe she should have brought Taylor along. Or at least accepted her liquor.

“No,” Rose said softly. “No more hiding.”

She got out of the car and made her way to the entrance on foot.

As soon as she stepped into the building, someone called out her name and two uniformed guards appeared to either side of her. “We’ve been instructed to escort you to your meeting upstairs.”

Rose didn’t say anything. She walked with them to the elevator, and then stood silently in the middle of the shaft as they made their way up.

Within no time she was at the conference room on the tenth floor, the guards right behind her.

There was a party waiting.

C.I.D. Director Matthew Feirstein stood from his chair to welcome her. “Thanks for being prompt, Captain. I’m sure you know what this is about.”

Rose looked over the room. Commissioner Rhoades. Laura Kent.

Captain Culhane.

“Well, I won’t hazard a guess,” Rose said coldly.

“Why don’t you have a seat, Captain?” Feirstein suggested. “At the end there.”

Rose glanced back at the guards behind her.

They moved with her as she took her chair.

“You must have heard about Nadine Shields’ demise by now,” Feirstein continued. “A cellular device was retrieved from the scene. Do you know what was on it?”

Rose stared at him.

Feirstein reached over to another stack of papers. “There was record of correspondence between the two of you. As recent as a few days ago. Now we might assume there’s some other explanation, but due to this bulk of evidence I’ve received from Captain Culhane, I can only conclude that the accusations that have been made against you … are at least, partially true.”

Rose ran her tongue underneath her two front teeth. “What does everyone else think?”

“Pardon?”

Rose looked to the Commissioner. “Well? Have you looked at this so-called evidence?”

Rhodes was taken aback. “There’s a lot to go through. It’s best if there’s a word of truth to it, that you come clean now. While you’re among friends.”

Rose turned to Kent. “Do you have anything to say?”

Kent flinched. “No, I –”

“Then what are you doing here?”

“We’ve been going over the evidence together,” Feirstein said. “And never you mind who is present here. This is your only opportunity to make a deal.

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