The Shadow Above the Flames (The Fate of Dragons Book 1) by Daniel Swenson

Author:Daniel Swenson [Swenson, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

The sun rose on the eastern horizon as the door to the room opened. In walked one of Smythe's goons, causing Henry to look up from his work with bloodshot eyes. He nudged Lenny awake, who grumbled and picked his head up off the table. As Henry sauntered casually over to the table, he tried to remember the bruiser's name, but it escaped him.

Henry noticed that the man had a stun baton holstered to his hip, his hand resting a little too easily on the weapon. He could tell that the man eagerly waited for Henry or Lenny to do something that would allow him to use it.

"What can I do for you?" Henry asked.

"Mr. Perkins has requested that I retrieve and escort you to the roof," the goon answered.

"Why didn't Mr. Perkins come collect us himself?"

The goon bristled a bit and tightened his grip around the stun baton. "Are we going to have a problem here?"

Henry smiled in a disarming way. "No, I thought Mr. Perkins would be more worried that his men might attack one of us, causing another media disaster for Union Forest, seeing that it wasn't more than ten hours ago that Roger Smythe and several of his underlings assaulted my friend and I here.”

Henry signaled for Lenny to start collecting all the files and images. He helped Lenny pick up a few of the remaining files on the table before turning back around to speak with the hooligan.

"I wonder, do you believe that a company as large as Union Forest would protect someone like you if you decided to strike me with that baton? I’d like to see how fast it would take for them to spin this around and say that you were the one that attacked us, and it was a crime perpetrated by you."

The goon stared at Henry for a moment and then his hand snapped away from the baton. He looked back at the door for a few moments before turning back to Henry.

"I understand you're just following orders,” Henry said. “And I’m sorry that you had to walk all the way down here. But my associate and I won't be accompanying you to the roof."

Henry stood up from his chair, stared the goon straight in the eyes, and then nodded his head towards Lenny. "As you can clearly see, we're busy with these files, and we won't be going anywhere until we've spoken with Mr. Perkins himself. So go shuffle off to whomever you have to report to and make whatever phone calls you need to; because until we see Mr. Perkins, we're not budging an inch."

Henry’s response was not what the brute expected, and he had been caught completely off guard. Henry was certain by the slight flaring of the goon's nostrils that he was extremely irritated.

The goon retorted, pointing to Lenny, "You can't be that busy because he was sleeping."

Henry stood there smiling.

The goon took a threatening step forward with his hand clutching his baton again when the light on his comm came on.

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