Rules of Engagement by Ken Fite

Author:Ken Fite [Fite, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B077K6YGWJ
Published: 2017-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY

AFTER IVANOV LEFT, followed by the man guarding the door and the other guy who had been lurking in the dark somewhere behind me, I waited alone, expecting agents to arrive at any moment, as Dimitri had suggested. The storm that I had heard battering the building just a few minutes earlier seemed to be moving out. All I could hear now was a light sprinkle against the windows near the front of the building.

I waited, scanning the dark and thinking, until finally the front door was kicked in and three figures entered, each with tactical flashlights shining their path as they stepped inside and approached quickly. One broke off and moved to the left, another to the right, as the third one headed straight for me, illuminating my face briefly before the light checked each of the corners of the large room surrounding me and then stopped on the dead man at my feet. I heard the voice of Mark Reynolds as he got closer to me.

“Clear,” he yelled, his deep voice echoing throughout the large empty room. I heard Chris and Jami repeat the word as they came into view and shined their lights in my direction, joining Mark as he fished a knife out of a pocket. He set his light on the floor as Chris and Jami lit my wrists to help Mark see.

“Blake,” said Jami with a gasp as she raised her light to my chest and kept it there. I looked down at my shirt and saw a splattering of blood. “Are you okay?” she asked as Mark cut through the first, then second rope. I grabbed my wrists and massaged them. She approached and put her arms around me and held me.

“I think so,” I replied, wincing in pain from my hurt arm as it adjusted to its new position after being held upright for so long. I wrapped my other arm around Jami as Chris shined the light on the dead man.

“Who’s this guy?” asked Chris as he turned the body over, studied the dead man’s face, and got his answer. “Looks like one of the guys Redding showed us,” he said, and I knew that he had visited Charlie.

Jami shined her flashlight around the old, abandoned building as she tried to understand what she was looking at. “What is this place? Looks like it’s been deserted for thirty years,” she said before turning back to me. “I went to your friend’s house, Blake. Charlie Redding—he had an image taken from the CCTV footage you asked him to get. The two people talking to the homeless guy were the man you killed back at the parking garage and this guy here,” she said, looking at the body of the man who Chris had turned over.

The three of them moved their flashlights around, checking out the building. My eyes were starting to adjust to the light as I looked around, trying to understand why it was abandoned. Mark turned to me. “Blake, what’s

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