Heads Will Roll by Joanie Chevalier

Author:Joanie Chevalier [Chevalier, Joanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Ferris Wheel - Oakland

When Denny came to, he was shivering and alone, half-sitting against a concrete wall. He heard muffled voices from somewhere deep within, and tilted his head to listen. He recognized the light, singsong lilt of Baby’s voice, never having noticed the whiny, nasal quality it had until now.

As he sat into a full sitting position, he cursed himself he hadn’t broken up with Baby weeks ago. He kicked off a thin fleece blanket twisted around and between his legs. Someone must have tried to cover him up, but he couldn’t recall. He groaned when his fingers skimmed over a knot on the back of his head. What had happened? He felt he was on the verge of remembering, but instinct told him not to.

He couldn’t tell how long he had been out. As Denny’s foggy mind recalled what had happened, a migraine came on. It felt like someone had punched him in his forehead and kicked him in the stomach at the same time.

He gagged when sudden realization hit him.

The doctor was a mad scientist! Now he knew what he was trying to remember. Talking about taking bodies and performing head transplants? Puleese!

Denny shook his head, trying to clear it. When he heard a loud clanging and whirring in the distance, his survival instinct kicked in. He knew he had to do something to get out of here. What if Baby didn’t want to go with him? Well, that was her problem.

Denny stood and stumbled toward the voices and the odd sounds. He couldn’t go the other way, the heavy door they’d come through earlier bolted shut behind him. He felt like a slab of meat in a walk-in freezer as he walked farther down the crude, dim hallway. The farther he went, the colder the air became. His nervous breaths came out in puffs of steam, and he rubbed his hands together and blew on them.

He stopped and backed up against the wall when he heard nervous laughter.

Baby.

What the fuck? I’m knocked out and lying on cold concrete while she’s giggling like a school girl?

He heard the doctor’s deeper voice respond. Farkis wasn’t laughing, but he did sound excited. Most likely more medical mumbo-jumbo he’d made up to impress Baby. Denny didn’t know if he should be proud or disgusted with her apparent lack of judgment. What did it say about him?

He heard a tinny, warbled tune like something he’d heard once from the neighborhood ice cream truck when he was a kid. No, his grandmother’s jewelry box with the twirling ballerina. He wasn’t sure which.

“Damn it… What’s going on?” He stumbled forward, his legs heavy and stiff from the cold. He gasped as a charlie horse bit into his right calf and he stopped, doubling over, panting and grimacing.

He frantically rubbed at his calf, but decided to keep going, half running, half hopping to his destination. Denny was desperate to get out of this eerie place. It was now or never.

After he turned a corner and came out into an opening, he blinked at the burst of lights and loud carnival music.

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