A Well-Timed Death (Booker Shield Book 1) by Karl Bourdiec

Author:Karl Bourdiec [Bourdiec, Karl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Karl Bourdiec
Published: 2017-11-13T23:00:00+00:00

12

There was screaming, a woman’s scream, lots of screaming, maybe two women, it sounded like two women screaming.

Booker wasn’t acclimatized to hearing two women scream so couldn’t really say with one hundred percent knowledge that it was, in fact, two women screaming. But at a guess, he’d say that was what it was.

One of them was probably Hollie, it sounded like it was Hollie. When multiple people scream, it was very difficult to work out who was screaming, and last time Booker ran towards a screaming woman she was holding her chest and bleeding out of it.

This was just before Booker vomited while some kid did an impromptu photo shoot with him.

‘That’s Hollie.’ Rob said to Booker, least Booker was right about it being Hollie. There was some hesitation before they sped up, mostly from Booker.

Booker didn’t know much about the Doppler effect, but he did know when a woman was screaming and running towards him.

It was Hollie, she had stopped screaming so much, but her eyes were red and puffy, and her skin was as pale as a sheet.

‘Booker, Thank God.’ She said with a gentle run up to him. Her hair was a mess, small bits of it were standing up.

‘You look like you’ve seen a ghost.’ Booker said.

‘That’s not funny. Follow me.’ There were no cat and mouse games like normal she just led the two of them through the corridors of the morgue.

Hollie limped on her left leg, she’d obviously hurt herself when running, there was a rip in her tights on the same leg.

A trickle of blood came from the cut but had been mostly mopped up by the tights, which now stuck to her calf because of the graze, she could feel it pulling at her skin as she walked, almost dragging her left leg as if she was a zombie, today had already been filled with one zombie. One zombie was enough for today, Booker didn’t want an epidemic on his hands.

‘Done something to your leg Hol?’ Booker asked Hollie hated having her name shortened, it annoyed her, a good thing for Booker, being when Hollie was annoyed she was more honest than the rest of the time.

‘I hit it on a draw running out of Martins room.’ Explained Hollie.

‘Are you okay?’ Rob asked being he was the one with the emotional spectrum to ask things.

‘To be honest Rob, I’ve been better.’ She looked at him, Hollie tried to pull a smile from the pit of her gut but even that well was dry. Instead, she put on a face of muscle spasms, the smile somebody pulls when you step on their toe and they don’t believe your apology. A face Booker had seen way too many times, he just presumed that was Hollie’s actual smile.

‘She likes you.’ Booker nudged Rob. Who lost his footing a little, once he’d straightened up Rob rubbed his arm where he’d been elbowed.

‘I don’t think she does. I’m not saying she dislikes me, I just don’t think she even cares who I am.

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