Twilight Heart by Adam Wright

Author:Adam Wright [Wright, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

12

It was going to take more than one night to crack the riddle of the pillars. It was almost midnight when I put my book down and I still hadn’t found anything that could help us get to Tia’s mummy.

We’d eaten the pizzas, drunk a couple of beers each, and pored over the texts but the prayer that could not be spoken in the day or night refused to be found.

“I’m beat,” Leon said, closing the text he’d been reading. “I’m going to go home and pick this up tomorrow.”

“I guess we should head home too, eh?” Carlton said to Muriel.

She nodded and put her book aside. With a sigh of resignation, she said, “Yes, we should. I have to get up early tomorrow. I have to meet my new students.”

“You’re a teacher?” I asked.

“A music teacher,” she said. “And I start my new job tomorrow so we really should be going.”

“Sure,” I said, getting up from the floor and stretching my aching joints. “Thanks for your help.”

“It’s just a shame we didn’t find anything useful,” she said as she and Carlton walked to the front door. The rain had finally stopped but the night air was cold and it rushed into the house when Muriel opened the door.

“Goodnight,” Carlton said as they stepped outside. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Yeah,” I said. “See you tomorrow.” My attention was drawn to a dark green Ford Taurus parked across the road. I could see two men inside—one with dark hair, the other blond—and they seemed to be trying to sit stock still so as not to attract any attention to themselves.

Too late.

I didn’t let them know I’d spotted them by lingering at the door for too long. I closed it and went back to the living room.

Leon was on his feet, stretching and yawning. “I’m going to get some sleep,” he said. “The writing style in those books is very dry. I’ll be dreaming about Egyptian architecture tonight.”

“We may have a problem,” I said.

The tiredness was gone from his face instantly. “What is it?”

“Two guys parked across the street in a green Taurus.”

He surreptitiously glanced out of the window. “I see them. What are they doing there?”

“Watching the house.”

“Why?”

I shrugged. “No idea. But the wards I set up on the street haven’t been tripped, which means one of two things. Either they don’t mean any harm or they’re skilled enough to get past my wards without setting them off. If it’s the latter, they’re pretty good.”

“So what are you gonna do? Go over there and see who they are?”

“I don’t feel comfortable confronting them on the street. If they’re good enough to slip past my wards, they probably have a lot of power. If a confrontation escalated into a fight, there could be collateral damage. I won’t let that happen. Maybe I’ll take a drive out of town, see if they follow.”

“Want some company?”

“I thought you were tired.”

“Who needs sleep when there are bad guys’ asses to kick?”

I grinned. “Sure, let’s go for a ride.

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