Beware the Hawk by A.J. O'Connell

Author:A.J. O'Connell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, suspense, mystery, espionage, spy
Publisher: Vagabondage Press LLC

I was glad to see the safehouse. I’d insisted on walking from the subway station and my ankle throbbed.

“Okay, well, you got me here,” I said, making a big show about taking out my key. “Thanks for the escort home.”

Danny didn’t move.

“Okay,” I turned, my hand on the doorknob and gave him a big smile, “good night.”

“I’m coming in,” he said. I turned. He climbed the steps from the sidewalk and stood close to me. I had all kinds of reasons I didn’t want him in the safehouse, but on the other hand, it seemed like a good idea to get him to come in. He’d tangled with the guy in the fleece, which might be enough to get him noticed by the Resistance. And the neighborhood was kind of rough. I knew I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if he was attacked on his way home. Yeah, he was a big guy, but he was also just a regular civilian. I felt like he’d be safer with me. Also, I can’t lie; while he was standing there, so close I could feel his body heat, all I could think to say was “Okay.”

He followed me, closely, into the building and up the stairs, and stood behind me as I fumbled with the apartment door.

“You have a tattoo on your neck,” he said. His breath ruffled the hair at the base of my neck. My skin puckered. I never let guys get to me like this. Why it was happening right when both of us could get shot, I didn’t know.

“Yeah.” I jammed my key into the apartment door and moved away from him, into the darkness of the apartment, trying to put a little distance between us. I had to concentrate. There might be someone in here. I sniffed the darkness. It didn’t smell different, but my nostrils were full of Danny’s scent, ten times stronger than it had in City Hall Plaza. I reached for the chain to turn on the light and realized I’d overshot it by about a foot. Goddamn. My hands were shaking. I pictured an intruder watching our outlines in the door, leveling a gun at my head. Any minute now, bang, and we’d both be dead. I needed to be able to see. I backed up to turn on the lights and nearly screamed when I slammed into someone.

“How far down does it go?” Danny’s hands slipped under my parka and onto my hips. I breathed in, jaggedly, reached up and turned on the light. The bulb snapped on. The apartment looked empty. I could see into the kitchenette and the living room and the bathroom, more or less. I couldn’t see into the bedroom.

“Woah. What is this place?” Danny’s voice was just at my ear. “Does one of your friends live here or something?”

“Yeah, something like that,” I shifted my weight so that my bad ankle wasn’t bearing so much of it. “How far down does what go?” I tried

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