The Way I Die by Derek Haas

Author:Derek Haas
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

The safe house outside Portland is quiet.

No smoke rises from the chimney when I approach and I go on high alert, like a dog that hears a stick crack outside a window. I park quickly and leap from my car, but the front door is locked and inside the house, silence. The curtains are drawn, so I can’t see through the windows, and unease sets inside me. I realize I don’t have a key. I never asked for a key. Peyton had the key when I left, and Peyton’s car is here but there’s no sign of her or the Boone family.

I move around the house soundlessly, my ears up, my Glock out, and the wind picks up, the cold, remorseless Oregonian wind, and the hairs on my neck feel it, all of them erect and standing at attention. I thought I had time, but hit men never respect your clock, your schedule. They make their own time and exploit your sense of yours.

The windows on the side of the house are covered too, mocking, and the forest seems to have gown closer to the house, a trick of the shadows, the sun fading, falling. If I’m too late, if inside is mutilation and devastation, then the next job I perform will be free of charge.

A football thumps in the grass thirty feet in front of me, bounces, tumbles awkwardly, comes to rest. Josh leaps on top of it, then Liam on top of him, and they tumble, laughing, rolling over each other.

They stop when they see me with my gun up and freeze, their easy laughs dying in their throats. Peyton jumps around the corner, her pistol in her hand, but she catches sight of me and stops before she pulls the trigger.

“Oh,” she says. “It’s you.”

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