Off Chance: A clean action adventure novella by Glen Robins

Author:Glen Robins [Robins, Glen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cambridge Police Department

Graduation Day

Lukas had been alone in a cell on the third floor of the Cambridge Police Station for hours, he figured. It was difficult to track the passage of time. His situation was a mixed bag, as far as he could tell. The good: he was alone, no cell mates to fear or deal with; he was unharmed; the police officers and the FBI agents had treated him with respect. The bad: he was in jail; he was being held with no chance of bail; and he had burned his one phone call by leaving a message for the NSA Section Chief George Mahoney on a private number Mahoney had given him, assuring him it was untraceable and completely secure. The message Lukas left was straight forward and to-the-point. “I’ve been arrested on suspicion of murder. I will need some help, like legal counsel. Please arrange for it as quickly as possible.”

He realized after he hung up just how presumptuous his request had been. Maybe Mahoney would brush it off as an off-base request from a haughty college student who had contributed nothing significant to building the case against Pho Nam Penh and, therefore did not deserve any sort of special treatment, let alone to be awarded with a “get out of jail free” card. In fact, Lukas realized, it was likely there was no official record of Lukas’s involvement with the NSA, which provided Mahoney perfect cover to ignore his message and duck out of the way of what could potentially become an inter-agency cat fight. He had read of such things.

So, he sat alone, motionless, with his thoughts and his grief and a million questions bouncing around in his highly developed brain while time flowed on the way it always does.

Nothing fit together. Nothing added up. Except for the one person he was not supposed to mention: Pho Nam Penh, the prime and only plausible suspect, according to Lukas’s way of thinking.

Being in a windowless room, Lukas didn’t know if it was daytime or night until a pretty young female officer, her shoes unscuffed and her new uniform still stiff, delivered dinner on a stainless-steel tray. Lukas learned from her that it was six o’clock in the evening. With no response from Mahoney and no sign of deliverance, he resigned himself to an overnight stay in the city jail, hoping only that he would not be put in general population.

He sat on the steel-framed platform that served as a bed, holding his face in his hands. As he tried to remain positive about his predicament, he could not help but worry about his parents, Theresa’s parents, and his reputation. How would something like this affect his future? Would the university revoke his degree? What was Mahoney doing? What would happen when his day in court came? How did he end up the prime suspect for the murder of the woman he was falling in love with? How did his phone call that taxi? Who was it the cab driver saw? The answers came easily: Penh.

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