Imposters by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward [Ward, Blaze]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aliens, action adventure, Pacific Northwest, cops, galactic empire
Publisher: Knotted Road Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Detective Hall slid to a halt next to her partner, her butt tight against the side of the building. She considered drawing her pistol. That might make things get entirely out of hand, so she stayed still. Murray hadn’t drawn his, so he didn’t think things had gone south.

Not yet, anyway.

The Mercedes drove into the garage with all the powerful purr of well–tuned German engineering.

She watched Murray slide forward enough to glance around the corner. Crazy–ass redneck boy from Yelm was in his element here. It was like a giant game of hide and seek.

Hall heard a muffled car door open. Murray’s whole posture changed as he radiated tension. Still, he didn’t draw, so she figured she didn’t need to either.

A second car door opened.

A moment passed.

Detective Murray stepped around the corner and slipped into cop voice before she realized he was moving.

“Seattle Police,” he announced, “what’s going on here?”

Eleanora decided to move. Rather than stay close against the building, she stepped to her right and moved to walk around Murray.

A sound caught her attention.

Footsteps. Heavy ones. Sudden. Harsh.

Murray was suddenly flying backwards with a loud crack.

Detective Hall looked up into an equally surprised face, a man staring back at her, eyes wide, fist outstretched from where he had just punched her partner across the driveway.

Across the driveway?

Eleanora regretted not already having her service weapon in hand. Still, all those hours at the range, both with her partner, and at home, with her husband, paid off.

She flipped her hip to one side and back, clearing her jacket out of the way, just like the old cowboys did it in the movies. Her right hand snaked down, gripped, and tugged, clearing the weapon in one sudden flow of movement. The safety seemed to flip itself off.

Across the space, the stranger seemed to realize his mistake. Big men never considered a single woman to be a threat. He certainly hadn’t.

Women with guns were a whole different creature. Isn’t that right, asshole?

Hall had the weapon centered on his chest before he could move.

He moved anyway.

All that training took over.

Her first shot hit him dead center in the chest, close enough to leave powder burns. She would have felt really good about it, but it didn’t stop him.

He closed the two steps almost too fast for her to realize it. She got off a second shot, high and left with the recoil from the first, about into the clavicle, maybe a touch lower.

That didn’t stop him either.

Before she had time to do anything else, he was on her.

One hand brushed her pistol aside. The other was aimed at the side of her head.

Eleanora had just enough time to realize he was about to hit her with an open palm, rather than a closed fist.

What kind of shit slaps a woman?

Darkness.

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