On the Prowl by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-15T22:00:00+00:00

18

Miranda

By the time we got to the industrial park, it was the middle of the afternoon, and the sun was high in the sky. It took us a few minutes to find the correct warehouse, as they all looked identical, and from our vantage point in the car, there appeared to be endless rows of them. Just when I was starting to think that the kid had tricked us, I found what I was looking for.

“That’s it, isn’t it?” I asked Naomi, who was manning the navigation app while I drove. “Andy said the warehouse was in the top corner of the lot, right next to one that has a big red lock on it. That one right there matches the description.”

“It’s a little closer to the center than Andy said, but he might have been remembering wrong. That does look like what he described,” she said as I parked the car a few rows away.

From where we were, we could see the entrance to the warehouse, but we were still far enough away that our car probably wouldn’t be noticed. We settled in for another stakeout, each of us hoping that this one wouldn’t be nearly as long or as boring as the previous one. We were lucky, as just a few minutes later, a man exited the warehouse talking on the phone. He had curly, shoulder-length hair, and his arm was in a sling.

“That’s him!” I whispered to Naomi, getting ready to exit the car and take him down.

“Wait!” she whispered back, latching her hand around my arm to stop me. “We haven’t seen him do anything illegal or even suspicious yet. If we move now, we will not have enough for a warrant to search the warehouse.”

“He shot a federal agent,” I said, worried the man would go back inside, and we’d lose our chance.

“That’s a completely unrelated crime. Even if we arrest him for that, we won’t have sufficient evidence to search the warehouse!” She was insistent, even though I could tell the thought of losing him was stressing her out as well.

“Well, we’ll just have to bluff our way in,” I said, throwing the door open before Naomi could stop me again.

“Miranda! You little-” I could hear Naomi grumbling behind me, but she got out of the car and fell into step with me, anyway.

“Hey!” I shouted from a few feet away, catching the man off guard. His eyes widened as he saw us approaching. “Where are the animals?” I decided pretending like I already knew what was inside would be the best way to trick him into admitting it himself.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said nervously, darting his eyes around frantically in search of an escape route.

“Yes, you do,” I said as I got within a few feet of him. Miranda moved around to block the other side, so he was backed against the entrance of the warehouse, ensuring he wouldn’t be able to escape. “We know the animals are in there.

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