The Last Judgement by Unknown

The Last Judgement by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911591696
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2020-01-29T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 23

‘I have to say, Dr Stanton, you may be a proverbial pain in the arse, but I must commend you on your ingenuity,’ Jacob Winters declared in a congratulatory tone. ‘I would very much like to know how you managed to escape from your room.’

Chloe Stanton stood defiantly in front of Winters’s desk, with Albert holding her firmly by one arm while a second suited man grasped the other. ‘You mean my cell?’

Her reply appeared to offend the old man. ‘We have no cells, Dr Stanton. You’re my guest here.’

‘Really? Because I thought guests were allowed to come and go as they pleased.’

‘And you are: you came and you will leave. Of course, whether you leave alive or dead is another matter entirely,’ Winters replied with a smug, wrinkled grin. ‘So, and I won’t ask again, how did you escape your room?’

Chloe squirmed against Albert’s grip, more in frustration than anything else. Then with an annoyed grunt, she nodded. ‘It was simple. I watched your food-delivery man tap in the code.’

‘Pffh,’ Winters snorted in disgust, and directed his attention towards Albert. ‘Sloppy, Albert, very sloppy. Would you see to it that the man answers for such shoddiness immediately, please?’

Albert left Chloe in the hands of the other guard and made his way over to the door. The crimson light made his plain white shirt look as if it were drenched in blood.

‘Oh, and I would like to hear the tunes if I may,’ Winters called out after him. Albert nodded respectfully and left, leaving the door half open.

‘Well, Dr Stanton…or should I call you Chloe?’ Winters continued, clasping his feeble hands together.

‘No, you should not,’ came her answer, whereupon Winters continued to smile, clearly pleased by her agitation.

He lightly tapped his desktop. ‘Well, Chloe, you’ve been a busy little thing, haven’t you? Breaking into my office and nosing about amongst my things.’

Winters motioned towards the velvet drape that had since been pulled back in place, hiding the capsule behind it. ‘You’ve observed my prize, then?’

‘Yes, but I’m not sure what I saw,’ she replied, genuinely not knowing exactly what it might have been.

‘Well, then,’ he said jovially, wheeling himself away from the desk to within reach of the drape. ‘Allow me to show you’ – the old man then pursed his lips together as if in a kissing motion – ‘you pretty little thing.’

Chloe shrugged off the demeaning gesture as the suited man, still gripping her arm tightly, walked her over to the drape and pulled it back to reveal the shadowy outline of the capsule she had discovered earlier.

‘I know it’s difficult to see, Chloe, but my eyes are not good in natural light,’ Winters explained, pointing up to the crimson bulb.

‘A bit like Dracula, then,’ she replied sarcastically, and the suited man gripped her arm tighter.

‘Very good,’ Winters replied, clearly somewhat irritated by the comparison. ‘But let me dispel that myth. Would you turn on the lights, please?’ He quickly retrieved a pair of jet-black Julbo sunglasses



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