Deep Sleep by Steven Konkoly

Author:Steven Konkoly [Steven Konkoly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2022-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

Devin Gray drove up and down the streets east of the town house for close to twenty minutes before a parking space opened on South Belmore Avenue. He spent the next few minutes trying to squeeze his car into the opening left by a Prius. The end result wasn’t pretty—the back end of his car protruded about a foot into the street—but it would have to do. Berg’s people were anxious to offload their gear and get started. From what he had gathered, most of them would remain at the town house overnight, while the team leaders joined Devin and Berg at Helen’s apartment to examine the evidence.

Before they set off down the street, Berg grabbed his arm. “Are you sure there’s no way to convince Marnie to leave the keys in the mailbox and get out of there? Right now. Her insistence on staying at the town house isn’t sitting well with the crew. I don’t want to give them any reason to back out of this.”

“She’s a good friend and a combat-decorated Marine. Completely trustworthy,” said Devin. “All she wants to do is make sure I’m not being put up to something or being forced to do something against my will. I know how that sounds, given the fact that I came to you with this, but she’s not going to let this go. She’s doing what a good friend would do. The harder I try to get her to leave, the less likely she will. She made that clear. You heard the phone call.”

“Yeah. Well, she’s getting in the way,” said Berg, sliding his satchel’s strap over a shoulder.

“She won’t stick around for long. She’ll see everything’s fine with me, and that’ll be it.”

Berg shook his head and started walking, almost mumbling to himself. They got to the corner of Foster Avenue, where Berg stopped. “I need you to remember what we discussed earlier today,” he said. “About doing this my way.”

“I remember,” said Devin. “I simply can’t force Marnie to leave without making her even more suspicious than she already is. She’ll just hang around in her car all night. I know her.”

“That would be even worse,” said Berg, looking somewhat exasperated.

“What?” asked Devin, thinking he might have misspoken.

“Nothing. Let’s go,” he said.

They walked the two blocks to South Glover Avenue, Berg checking his phone every minute or so for texts and immediately assuring Devin that everything was on schedule. They didn’t encounter much foot traffic on the way. A college-age student with a backpack bopping along to whatever music was pumping through his headphones. A thirtysomething-looking couple headed in the opposite direction, probably on their way to a cozy dinner in one of a number of Canton neighborhood restaurants. He’d pictured the streets here to be a little busier, due to the proximity to the waterfront, but it was still early by city standards. Just a little past ten.

South Glover was packed with cars, like every street in the area. He imagined having a

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