Deadly Division by Nathaniel Sizemore

Author:Nathaniel Sizemore [Sizemore, Nathaniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946637260
Publisher: Andrea K. Robbins, Inc. DBA BDI Publishers
Published: 2021-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Inside the basement of the Fellowship Presbyterian Church, Tommy sensed something was wrong. It had been over ten minutes since Jerry went to retrieve his keys, and he had not yet returned. Tommy poked his head into the two dark offices in the office suite, both of which looked basically dormant. He could barely walk through the door of one of the offices because the room was filled with old, broken church furniture. There were cobwebs throughout the room, signaling no one had been in that space for years. He shut the door and walked across the hall to the other office. It smelled musty, but dustless books and new magazines sitting on the metal desk indicated the room had been recently used.

Natural light cascaded in from a small rectangular window in the room’s upper-left corner near the ceiling. Tommy could see the alley through the window from his tiptoes, so he pulled the rickety desk chair to the outside wall and climbed up to look for Jerry.

He nearly fell off the chair when he angled his head to look further down the alley and saw his friend lying face down on the pavement in a pool of blood. He jumped off the chair and immediately ran to the office door and slammed it shut.

What did this mean? Had the man who killed his wife also killed Jerry? Was he still in the alley?

Tommy’s head was swirling, and he thought he was going to faint.

His first inclination was to race outside to help Jerry. But Tommy suspected Jerry was already dead, and the culprit could be waiting outside to finish the job he started in South Carolina.

What should he do? The files! Amid the chaotic situation, he had a moment of clarity.

He had to retrieve Pietrov’s files – maybe he could turn them over to the authorities in exchange for protection. Tommy knew that without Pietrov’s files, he had no leverage and would be dead before the weekend.

Tommy didn’t have the key to the locked desk drawers, and he didn’t dare go out into the alley to search Jerry’s dead body for it. So, he took a heavy, green marble paperweight from the corner of the desk and began smashing it against one of the drawer’s locks. After the fourth hit, it opened to reveal a three-hole punch and yellowed computer paper. He moved over to the drawer on the other side of the desk and began pounding. He was afraid the loud noise of the paperweight hitting the metal desk would alert Jerry’s killer to his location, so he had to move fast and hit hard.

After his fifth hit, the drawer opened, and files poured out onto the floor. There were about half a dozen thick manila folders, and he saw Dr. Pietrov’s name on one of the folders in the middle of the pile. Tommy didn’t have time to sift through all of the documents to determine which ones were relevant, so he threw all of the files into an empty trash bag and planned his next move.

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