Anubis Key by David Wood & Alan Baxter

Author:David Wood & Alan Baxter [Wood, David & Baxter, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1940095689
Amazon: B072PXYKSJ
Publisher: Adrenaline Press
Published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

The banging continued, heavy thuds against the door. Rose stood with her feet planted wide apart, looked left and right. She felt like a caged animal, impotent and scared. The man’s voice outside yelling for Hargraves rose from concerned to desperate.

“Open the door! Let me in now! Hey!” More crashes sounded in the room outside, like the man was trying to kick the door in. The wood flexed and bulged, the frame creaked as wood began to give way.

Rose crouched, grabbed the box cutter from the fallen Hargraves. He groaned and shifted on the floor and she realized she was relieved to see that. She had feared she might have killed him, though he deserved no less for threatening her with a blade. She stood again, box cutter raised and prepared to defend herself. Then the man outside yelled again, but this time he sounded concerned. She caught the distinctive sound of fist meeting flesh and the door banged once more as something heavy hit and slid down.

Rose strained to hear, then Crowley’s voice came through the wood. “Rose? You in there?”

She shot forward and unlocked the door, pulled it wide. A security guard, groaning through bleeding lips, fell into the room and she hopped back. Then she rushed forward and gathered Crowley in a fierce hug.

“Let’s get the hell out of here,” he said.

She went to step over the unconscious security guard, but paused, rummaged through his pockets. She found a set of keys and tried several before one fit the handcuff lock. With a sigh of relief she cast the manacles aside and they hurried out.

“I couldn’t tell where you’d gone,” Crowley said as they jogged along. “I asked one of the staff and she looked contrite, cast a glance this way. Next thing I know, I see that guard hammering on the door and I figured only you could be at the center of that kind of drama.”

Rose let out a laugh, partly relief. “I thought I was in serious trouble. He was going to cut me.”

“Why?”

“Turns out Lily stole something from here. I’ll explain later. But there’s a replica.” She ran for the exhibit but two burly museum guards stepped out in the corridor ahead of them and sneered. Rose skidded to a halt.

Crowley grabbed her arm and hauled her back. “Let’s just get out of here.”

Sirens sounded in the distance, getting unmistakably closer.

“That’s not good,” Crowley said. “They’ll pull up out front and that means we can’t get to our rental car.”

“So what do we do?”

“Well, I’m not in any mood to try to explain things to the police. Let’s find an emergency exit and leave the car behind.”

“Oh, man,” Rose said. “We’re never going to able to rent another car anywhere in the world the way we’re going.”

Crowley led them around a corner and they saw a fire exit at the end of a short corridor. They ran to it and looked out the window nearby.

“This is the back of the building,” Crowley said.

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