Vacant Passage by L.K. Hill

Author:L.K. Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime fiction, detective mystery, murder mystery, mystery and suspense
Publisher: Liesel Hill
Published: 2020-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Kyra stepped out of Carmen’s bathroom to find the woman waiting just outside for her.

“How do I look?”

Carmen’s mouth quirked upward in a smile. “Completely different. It’s amazing how you disappear into these disguises.

Kyra smiled sheepishly—which kind of hurt—and resisted the urge to run her hands through her hair. Or rather, through the dark brown wig now clipped to her head. Even aside from not wanting to accidentally push it askew, she wouldn’t have been able to run her fingers through it anyway. The wig was long. It would have hung down to the middle of her back were it not pulled into a French braid now draped over her left shoulder.

She’d applied heavy makeup and fake eyelashes, darkening her eyebrows and lips as well. She looked almost like she had a Latina origin.

Carmen ventured out to buy Kyra the wig and most of the makeup, as well as a change of clothing. Kyra told her what to get and Carmen returned with it.

“Are you sure you’re good to drive me?”

Carmen nodded dismissively. “I told you, Mario can watch the bar for me for another hour. It’s a pretty slow night anyway.”

Following Carmen out the back door, Kyra tried not to be spooked as they crossed the parking lot and got into Carmen’s beat up, ten-year-old SUV.

Kyra resisted the urge to look over her shoulder or peer in every direction. If any of those who’d chased her watched the bar, such behavior would give her away immediately. If they merely saw two women, neither of whom look like Kyra, leave the bar and get into a car, they’d probably dismiss it. Prowlers weren’t the brightest people to begin with.

She slid smoothly into the passenger seat of Carmen’s car and sighed with relief when Carmen hit the power lock and started the engine.

They pulled out of the lot twenty seconds later.

“Head north,” Kyra said softly. “Toward the highway.”

Carmen nodded and turned her car in that direction. Silence lay between them for a few minutes. A familiar song played on the radio. That same song she'd heard at Gabe’s precinct.

The monsters come in the gloom

Determined to seal my doom

I try to be patient

But the passage is vacant

It's empty, It’s empty. I can’t get out.

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