THE ROMAN LEE SERIES
"BENEATH DEVIL'S LAKE"
One of the doors were still opened. Someone must have left it that way when they
fled out of the office. Pulling out my 9
MM I started to clear the lower floor.
Papers were strewn all over.
Computer terminals smashed with power cords pulled violently from the
outlets. Personal desk items and photos
were strewn about the entire floor. Near
the stair case movement behind me. The
hammer cocked with my finger on the trigger I whipped around finding Joel’s
secretary. Her hand over her mouth
trembling she was sitting on the floor refusing to get up. Gently I eased her into my arms shuttling her
away from the building to a large tree setting her down beside it.
“What happened?”
“The Larkin woman.
Her Father. He reeked of
alcohol. He… He… asked for Joel when he
came back from lunch. He must have
waited for him. He pulled out a gun
shooting at everything destroying the place.
Someone told him Joel was upstairs.
Everyone must have gotten out except us.”
“Everything will be ok. Stay here until an officer arrives.”
“You’re not going in again?”
Using a back stairwell, I slowly ascended to the 2nd
Floor. While easing the door open a rush
of trapped air made its way out. The
tirade of an inebriated grieving father echoed down the hall.
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