The Spill: The Beach Never Looked So Deadly (A Ray Hammer Novel Book 1) by Aaron Leyshon

Author:Aaron Leyshon [Leyshon, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rogue Kitten Media LLC
Published: 2020-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The Key

I fumbled in my pocket for the key that I’d asked for earlier. It was right where I’d left it, still there, and my clothes had finally dried out. I turned the key in the lock, opened the door, pushed it in. The dark, dank smell of my sweat and self-loathing greeted me.

There were footsteps behind me. I turned, and a waiter walked past. I grabbed him by the elbow before he had time to get out of range. “Excuse me.”

He didn’t look like he thought being yanked backwards by the clientele was part of his job description, but he was well enough trained to politely answer, “Yes?”

“Can you grab me a bottle of whiskey?”

He nodded dubiously; maybe my reputation for not paying my bills had made it all the way to the back-end of this one-star inn, but he stretched off down the hallway. Hopefully to get me some.

I stepped back inside and flicked on the light, took off my coat, threw it onto the bed, onto a pile of other clothes—except I realized too late that the other clothes had a body inside them and that body wasn’t breathing.

I pulled my coat off it, threw the garment onto the floor. A big man lay there; my new friend Pavel. I slapped him hard and slapped him hard again. He didn’t wake up. I pulled his eyelids up, put a finger, two fingers to his neck, checked for a pulse. He wouldn’t ever wake up again.

I went through his pockets, went over his fingers, looked for rings, necklaces, jewelry, wallets, anything—anything of value, that is. There was nothing. They’d stripped him before they’d killed him—or maybe after; who knew?

I rolled him over onto his ample belly and felt in his back pocket. I was starting to think I’d become a bad talisman, some kind of jinx. People around me kept turning up dead. I felt awkward about digging, but it paid off because I drew out, on a long thin strand of ribbon, a single key. I put the key in my pocket, turned off the light, closed the door.

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