Bearcat by S.E. Warren

Author:S.E. Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S.E. Warren

EVERETT

After eight hours of surveillance, my left leg was finally numb. I kicked it against the trunk of the tree which had served as my lookout for the past three days. The sun was beginning to set. It looked like it was going to be another long night.

Hang in there, Charlie.

Sal had managed to obtain the blueprints for the Cristiani manor, and one look told me I couldn’t get in on my own, let alone smuggle someone out. And so here I was, waiting. One of them would make a mistake eventually. Until that time, I remained prepared.

“Zelda, bring up footage of the northeastern corridor.” My translucent tablet lit up with a picture of the hall outside Charlie’s room. The footage was feeding from one of the cameras I had posted along the four sides of the house. The hall was empty except for the guard posted outside the door. I propped the tablet on my lap and eased back against the tree trunk. “Thank you, Zelda.”

“Don’t mention it,” the disembodied voice retorted from the tablet.

I lifted my binoculars to Charlie’s window. An hour ago, she had been sitting right there, close enough to see her breath fogging the glass. Now the window was empty and my nerves were shot. There was no way to tell what else was happening in that room.

Zelda piped up again, this time her voice coming from the binoculars. “I know you’re probably too busy peeping through people’s windows to care, but I thought you ought to know that Lazlo Cristiani is headed down the hall.”

She was right. I lifted the tablet, and Lazlo was standing outside Charlie’s door. I gulped my heart back down into my chest and reminded myself that he had done this daily. Each night he had come to her door. Each night he had raised his hand to knock. And each night he had dropped his hand and walked away.

“Let me know when something important happens, Zelda. I’m not too concerned with Lazlo pining over her door.” I harrumphed and returned to my binoculars.

“Okay...would you care to know if he actually knocked this time?”

“Nope.” It wouldn’t make a difference if he did. She wouldn’t open the door.

“How about if she opened the door?”

“She won’t.”

“But say he did. And then she did.”

“Zelda, I’m not interested in if-then games right now. I’m trying to focus.” I zoomed in on the window. There was a shadow falling across the floor.

“Okay, sir. But they’re headed down the hall now.”

“What?!” I dropped the binoculars into my lap and snatched up the tablet. Sure enough, Charlie was disappearing around the corner with Lazlo. Her hand was entwined with his. I could almost hear her mocking voice, like velvet whips. Jealous, Daniels?

You wish.

“Why didn’t you warn me?” I demanded.

“I ran an algorithm determining importance based on prior criteria. You didn’t care if Lazlo knocked or if she answered, and so you didn’t care if she also left the room with him. It’s a simple data prediction. Truly, your lack of deductive reasoning would be astounding.

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