The Gifts of Fate: A Star of Fate Novella by David T Myers

Author:David T Myers [Myers, David T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Writeside Entertainment
Published: 2019-03-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Shilpy was halfway to the train station before she realised she was being followed. The van was the same one that had pulled up outside Madame Jessica’s. Where it had come from, Shilpy couldn’t be sure. It certainly hadn’t been waiting near Denise’s.

The van was definitely following her. It was a block behind and driving too slowly. It also didn’t have its lights on. Shilpy kept her head down and tried her best not to glance over her shoulder.

There had been five women in the van at Madame Jessica’s. How many were in there now? Probably not as many. If they were staking out Denise’s house, it wouldn’t make sense to have that many people sitting in a van just in case their target turned up.

That might be why they hadn’t grabbed her straight away. They were waiting for reinforcements. They knew Shilpy had been trained to fight. What they didn’t know was how unfit she currently was. The truth was, she’d got lucky at Madame Jessica’s. If it came to it, Shilpy doubted she’d be able to take down one of these women, let alone five.

She kept heading towards the train station. With luck, any extra support would be sent there. So long as Shilpy continued in that direction, the van might hold back.

Still, she couldn’t actually go to the train station. What to do? Then it came to her.

She turned off into a long lane. It wasn’t well lit, but the left side was filled with apartment block after apartment block. The right was fenced off, and the fence was in various states of disrepair.

Shilpy picked up the pace. This lane didn’t exactly lead to the train station, but it would take her in the general direction. Eventually, it would turn back into Mosely Street, which would take her back towards the station. But more importantly, further down, she could take a shortcut through a park directly behind one of the apartment buildings to Everton Street and Strathfield station. A shortcut that the van wouldn’t be able to take.

If she could lose the van for just a few minutes, but fool the driver into thinking she was still going to the train station, she might be able to escape.

She didn’t dare look back as she walked down the narrow lane. It wasn’t the sort of street she would choose to walk down after dark and, despite her efforts to appear calm, she broke into a light trot.

At last, she reached the apartment she was after. She climbed over a small iron fence and skipped across the grass and between the flats. The van wouldn’t be able to follow her now. Sure enough, she heard a dull roar behind her as the van gunned its engine and sped down the lane. No doubt it would try and circle around and catch her at the other end of the shortcut.

Once it had shot past, she turned back the way she’d come and climbed over the fence again. She sprinted

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