Repulse Monkey: Book 2, The Alex Glauberman Series by Dick Cluster

Author:Dick Cluster [Cluster, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense, Crime Fiction, amateur sleuths, literature and fiction, action and adventure
ISBN: 9780990454380
Publisher: booksBnimble
Published: 2015-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

13. WARM MILK

Hurrying back down the hill, Alex fixed his attention on fitting his boots into the snow steps. He tried to hurry forward, yet to balance his weight on his heels. He wanted to get down to the motel without being noticed and without falling on his face. In spite of himself, and despite a dash of guilt, he was impressed at the commotion he had caused.

The emergency door he and Suzanne had used remained open, and so did another one at the end of the building, which he hadn’t seen before. Guests wrapped in yellow motel blankets or their own coats milled busily but randomly about each door. In the emergency spotlights, the fat drops of snow fell faster and thicker out of the dark. The guests’ heads, mostly unprotected, were turning brilliant white.

As he drew closer to the nearest group, Alex could see that some people wore bathrobes underneath the coats and blankets, some wore street clothes, and a few seemed to be wearing nothing at all. Everyone had stopped for shoes or slippers or boots, except perhaps for some children being carried by adults. It was hard to tell about the children’s feet, because the grown-ups had wrapped their coats protectively around the children’s legs.

An excited babble rose as the guests milled and stamped their feet, waiting for flames to leap out of the roof or for someone to tell them they could go back inside. Most of them looked toward the building, not the highway, but Alex knew he had been spotted by a big man at the edge of the crowd. The man’s meaty hand was wrapped around the hand of the girl who had stared at Alex in the hall. His white legs were ghostly between blanket and boots. His face seemed puffed up by fear or anger or cold. “Excuse me,” Alex said, hurrying straight into the crowd. The girl stared again, but this time an injured expression came across her lips, which seemed to Alex to be blue with cold. Her lips started to make words, so Alex said, “I smelled smoke,” as he brushed past. He said, “Excuse me,” again and again, trying to project an air of authority, pushing his way farther into the crowd and then at last out the other side. He hoped there would be no security men or zealous guests blocking reentry to the building. His plan wouldn’t turn out very well if it left Suzanne crouching in the breakdown lane of Route 128 while he got lynched down below.

Nobody blocked the door, however, and others besides him were going in. He merged with the flow of guests scampering through the crossway and stepping in triumph into the busier scene on the parking-lot side. Across the snow, in the lot itself, the crowd was bigger but more spread out. Like others wearing boots, Alex tromped around the slow-moving column of guests clogging the plowed path. Some who preceded him were slamming car doors and starting

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