The Destroyer - 117 - The Destroyer 117 - Deadly Genes by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pulp Action
ISBN: 9780373632329
Publisher: PINNACLE BOOKS
Published: 1999-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

"Excuse me?" whispered a voice from the hall. Judith had heard her coming, of course. But she was surprised the nurse heard her voice. Human hearing was just about the worst of any animal in the world. But occasionally one surpassed the rest. Not difficult to do, given the commonness of human limitations.

Judith remained still. Her eyes were open barely a slit. Only enough to see. In the 3:00 a.m. darkness of the room, her whites wouldn't be seen.

Predictably, the nurse attributed the soft voice to a dreaming patient. The woman tiptoed quietly into the room, her white sneakers virtually soundless on the linoleum. To Judith, she might just as well have stomped in wearing tap shoes and a suit of armor.

The nurse checked the patient in the next bed, an obese fifty-year-old woman with two ingrown toenails who had refused to be treated on an outpatient basis. The woman was deep in medicated sleep.

Stepping over to Judith, the nurse smoothed out some nonexistent wrinkles in her bedcovers.

She wore a name tag. Elizabeth O'Malley, R.N. Just beneath the silver tag, the woman's heart thudded audibly in her chest. The enticing sound rang like a dinner gong in Judith's ears. She repressed the urge to lunge.

To the nurse, everything seemed fine. As quietly as she had entered the room, she slipped back out into the hall.

Judith heard her step back up to the nurses' station. A moment later, the woman headed down another corridor.

The instant she was out of earshot, Judith's perfect legs slipped out from beneath the sheets. Her feet made no sound as she stalked across the room to the small closet.

Finding her clothes, Judith suppressed an unhappy cluck. Too much blood on the blouse and jacket. Skirt was dark. At night, the stains wouldn't be visible.

She stuffed the hospital johnny she was wearing inside her short skirt. It gathered in bunches around the waist.

There was a large coat in the closet. No doubt the property of the patient in the next bed.

Judith turned to the gently snoring woman. She watched the sheet rise and fall over her ample belly. A hungry purr rose from the throat of the geneticist.

Familiar footsteps suddenly registered in the hall outside. Judith spun rapidly back to the closet, throwing on the fat woman's coat.

She looked quickly around the room. The footsteps were too close.

The door was out of the question. There was only the window.

Judith made an instant decision. She spun on her heel and headed to the window. With one quick stop along the way.

WHEN NURSE O'MALLEY PASSED by the open door to Judith White's hospital room a few moments later, she glanced inside. She was startled to see both beds empty.

The nurse went into the dark room, not certain what to expect. A cursory examination revealed that neither patient was in the small bathroom.

The nylon curtains of the second-story room blew gently in the soft September breeze.

She looked out the window. Briefly, she thought she saw a dark figure moving quickly and stealthily beyond the lights of the parking lot two stories below.

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