My Backyard Spaceship by Douglas Michaels

Author:Douglas Michaels [Michaels, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I looked down at the floor again as the elevator started to descend. The nervous atmosphere was practically palpable, and after what felt like hours but had only been a matter of seconds, I looked over at the man at the front of the elevator. He rolled his wide shoulders, and I saw him tense and release his hands into fists a few times. However, he hadn’t looked at me again since he’d stepped into the elevator. He kept his eyes forward on the door and ignored me the whole time.

The jazz music in the elevator tinkled away in the background, but it suddenly felt weirdly out of place. Everyone was quiet, and I saw more than one frightened look cast in the direction of the living mountain before people looked away. I knew I could fight the guy off after what had just happened with the other goons Nefarium had sent after me, but none of the other passengers had my skills or my protective second skin. It would be a bloodbath if the man launched an attack in the confines of the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the second floor, and the doors slid open. The slender man beside me edged around the muscular man and stepped out into the hall, and every cell in my body screamed at me to follow him, to get out of the elevator and away from the man while I still had a chance. This was it. This was my way out of here.

I thrust myself forward and skirted past the muscular guy without meeting his eyes. I was almost out, and then my stomach did a somersault as I felt his hand close around my arm. However, he was surprisingly gentle. I was halfway out of the elevator, and I looked longingly out into the hall, but in the end, I turned back to see why he had grabbed my wrist.

When I looked at him, I realized that he was smiling at me. If this was some kind of intimidation tactic, then it was a really weird one. We stared at one another for a moment, and then I glanced down at his hand on my arm.

“Sorry, man,” he said brightly as he took his hand away. “I just thought you should know that your shoelace is undone.”

He pointed down at the floor, and I discovered that the laces on my left shoe were indeed untied.

“Oh,” I laughed as all the tension left my body. “Thanks.”

“See you around,” he chirped as the elevator door closed, and I was left standing in the hall on the second floor.

“Holy shit,” I panted as I darted into the stairwell. “I thought he was one of them.”

“Right place, wrong guy,” a voice said to my right.

I spun around to see the slender man from the elevator. He stood on the steps with a gun raised in my direction. There was a silencer on the end of the barrel, and it was pointed right at my heart.

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