Broken Ice by J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox

Author:J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2019-02-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

To the Bottom

While the Agency makes preparations to send me to Siberia, I head into Berlin for a side project.

After a private conversation with Andrew in which I explained the surveillance of Jake’s old apartment and what I found in the vampire’s head, he gave me the green light to check out the Dominion site, the black marble building I’d seen in the night walker’s thoughts.

It’s not the best attire for infiltration, but entering an office tower without drawing undue suspicion requires a certain look. Hair up, light makeup, grey skirt suit, and heels. I’m not a big fan of high heeled shoes, but I’m agile enough that they don’t hinder me too much. In a pinch, I could always kick them off. Not like I paid for these.

The high-rise is a forty-two story tower downtown with an oval footprint. Black glass covers the rest of the exterior, plain except for silver numbers: 920, the street address. I push through a revolving door into a huge three-story atrium that offers a view into the second and third floor corridors running between the various tenant businesses.

No reception desk or security guards are in the way, so I cross the lobby to the elevator I remember from the night walker’s memory. A directory board near the elevators bears a listing of companies and their floor/suite numbers. I don’t see anything that suggests this is a vampire stronghold.

Other than a few guys checking me out, I don’t get much of a reaction from anyone scurrying around the lobby. So far, it seems a legit place of business. I do need to use a mental prod to keep two guys and a woman from joining me in the elevator. Hey, there’s five others. They don’t need to use the one I’m in.

As soon as the doors slide closed, I enter 7532159 using a numeric keypad below the 1-40 buttons. After a momentary hesitation, the elevator slides down without updating the floor number display, which still shows 1.

When downward motion ceases, the back wall opens, revealing a plain concrete and cinderblock corridor with fat pipes and thin black tubes running along the corners of the ceiling. Narrow ones have high voltage warnings on them. A blue conduit almost big enough for me to fit inside thrums with the vibration of a distant HVAC unit. Hmm. Guess the Dominion went cheap and just took over an existing basement rather than build a secret operations center.

The world must be in bad shape indeed if a clandestine vampire organization bent on world domination has to watch their budget.

No sense announcing my presence with loud clicking, so I slip out of my heels and carry them down the corridor past electrical rooms, boilers, storage closets, and a server room. Some ninety feet later, the hallway corners to the right. A heavy, concrete slab door like something out of a military bunker hangs open at the end of a short spur. That’s both good and bad news. Good because I don’t have to figure out how to open it, bad because it means someone else is here.

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