The Devil's Equinox by John Everson

Author:John Everson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
Published: 2019-06-26T15:28:32+00:00

Chapter Twenty

He knew the search would be fruitless, but he went anyway. He couldn’t just sit in his house and wait for the police to call. And after the threatening text, he didn’t dare call them now to ask what they were doing. He was obviously being watched. Plus, the police had a hundred cases to deal with. He only had one. And it meant the world to him. To the police, finding Regina and Ceili was just a job. They would clock out at the end of the day and not feel a thing if they didn’t turn up a clue. So he was not just going to sit and wait for them to help him. But he didn’t even know where to begin. The best way to find Regina would be to go to Club Equinox, if he only knew where it was. He had a vague idea of which direction Regina had headed in when she’d driven him there but really, that directional sense only extended to the end of his neighborhood. Past there, she could have gone in any direction. He knew she’d passed over the tracks at one point, but those tracks cut all the way across town.

Austin decided to start at the only place that he knew Regina had gone to outside of his house. He drove to the place where he’d woken up this morning. Maybe Equinox was actually close to there. Of course, he could be standing right next to it and not know – there certainly wasn’t going to be a big marquee sign on the street proclaiming Club Equinox – your darkest desires unleashed!

But maybe…if he found some likely buildings, he would hear the distant pound of club beats. It was nearly dusk, so it was a good time to go out looking for a dance club based on ears alone.

When he arrived, he pulled up in front of the large loading-dock doors and got out of his car. The place looked much the same as it had this morning. Sprawling and empty. He walked around the building to the back parking lot and shook his head. This was definitely not where the club was hidden. There were no cars here, no sidewalks and no sounds really, aside from the wind whooshing across the open field out back. When Regina had led him from the car to the club he knew that they had parked on a downtown street – he could hear distant traffic and they had walked down a sidewalk for a block before arriving at the club. He had this mental image from his time walking around blindfolded that the club was in a downtown kind of area with curbs and old sidewalks – he remembered stubbing his toe a few times on uneven concrete slabs.

He walked back to the car and drove slowly along the road back toward the center of town. There was an old downtown area just a few blocks from here, so he

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