Twist (Book 1): The Abnorm Chronicles-Twist by Anderson Kevin J

Author:Anderson, Kevin J. [Anderson, Kevin J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction/Superpowers
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2014-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

As Detective Rodriguez knocked again, the door speaker flared to life.

“Who is it?”

“Mr. Lee, this is Detective Rodriguez of the Denver Police Department. We met the other night? I was sent here to talk to you about an investigation.”

After a moment of silence, the door clicked and swung inward. The voice on the speaker said, “Come in.”

Rodriguez entered and saw Adam Lee in his wheelchair across the room, spotlighted by sun from the world outside. No lights were on inside the apartment, just daylight from the one window, but since the room had such sparse furnishings, there were no darkened corners or shadows lurking around the edges.

“Please close the door behind you,” Adam said. “It’s on a mechanical spring. I can open it with a click, but it doesn’t close the same way.”

Rodriguez closed the door as Adam wheeled over to the sitting area in the center of the room. “How can I help you, Officer Rodriguez?”

Rodriguez was surprised by the man’s demeanor. After witnessing the murder of Chloe Eccles, Adam had been badly shaken—understandably so. But he seemed engaged and interested now, not shell-shocked or off in his own world. Maybe he had gotten back to his former self.

He was a disabled vet, injured in the line of duty. Rodriquez hadn’t seen any action in the service himself, but his brother had, and his brother was as much a wreck inside as on the outside. This guy was probably much the same—but someone who had been through that had a different reaction to death. He would grieve in his own way.

Rodriguez knew his news was about to change that. He cleared his throat, hating this part of the job. “There’s been a second murder, sir, and we think it has to do with you.”

“Another murder?” Adam looked confused. “How could these killings have anything to do with me?”

“I’m sorry to tell you, sir, that your therapist was found dead last night in the parking structure of the VA Hospital. She was killed in a manner similar to the murder you witnessed on Thursday night.”

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Adams face went slack, expressionless.

Worlds outside his window pulled at him. Anything but here and now. But the here and now did have a claim on his life, no matter what Ingrid said. Reality spun and Adam’s mind jumped.

Walls melted, replaced by howling winds that smashed into the raft as he tried to get away from the Cuban shore. “We can't take out the target. There’s no way we will survive if we retrieve the others. There's no way to salvage this . . . .” The words echoed over the wind, through Adam’s mind.

“Mr. Lee?”

Disembodied words jerked at his consciousness. Richard Benedict Sr. watched the football game on his television, but emptiness filled filling the room. Cardboard realities—textureless, one dimensional—let him coast on autopilot.

Adam envied that experience, found the idea soothing. Then he wouldn’t have to face the words he had just heard.

“Mr. Lee?”

False comforts were shattered. Detective Rodriguez crouched in front of him, concern written on his face.

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