Page 70 of Grizzly Sleuth
“Agreed.” As she spoke, she snared a white coat hanging on a hook, grimacing at the smell of the last man who wore it.
A man who should be dead.
Soon. Although she might have to get in line for the killing blow. Despite her repugnance, she slid on the jacket so as to avoid strutting out naked for all to see.
They emerged from the building in time to see the truck that had brought her rumbling as it gathered speed, heading for the closed gate. Sparks flew as it smashed through it.
Takhi stood watching as its taillights grew smaller. She glanced their way. “Ah, if it isn’t Dr. Levy.”
“Alive against my better judgement,” Idris grumbled.
“Don’t worry. He won’t enjoy these last few hours he’s got left.” A dark promise. Despite her initial reaction, Svetlana was starting to like the woman.
“Where’s Yuri?” Svetlana asked.
“Right here, sister dear.” He strutted from around the side of the building, along with a woman who uncoiled wire as he walked.
The female snipped off the end. “The lab is ready to blow.”
“And not a moment too soon. There’s a military bird on its way,” Idris announced.
“Fuck.” A man dressed in combat gear poked his head from the helicopter. “How soon?”
“Not sure, Captain. But given Levy wouldn’t shut up, I’m guessing anytime.”
“Everyone’s on the chopper except for you, Freya. Light the fuse first,” the man barked.
“Yes, sir,” Freya quipped.
“We got room for this asshole?” Takhi jerked a thumb at Levy.
“Hell yeah, we do. We sent all the prisoners, except for Hiro and Tatiana, in the truck. Toss him in.” The man stepped aside to give them room to board as the blades began spinning faster.
Idris began prodding Levy in the direction of the chopper. “Move your ass.”
“Fuse is lit! The countdown is on,” Freya shouted as she sprinted past and threw herself in the cockpit.
Blame her announcement for their momentary distraction. Gazes went to the spark travelling along the wire. Levy used that lapse to his advantage and ran from them, aiming for the open gate, satchel bouncing against his hip.
Idris immediately sprinted in pursuit, only to halt suddenly.
They all stared in shock as something big swooped from the cloud-laden sky and grabbed hold of Levy.
“No!” shrieked Levy as the thing lifted the doctor from the ground with its big and powerful wings.
“Holy shit,” Idris exclaimed. “It’s the thing from the lab in Canada.”
Svetlana didn’t understand what he meant, but quickly surmised this was one of prisoners who’d been experimented on. A creature straight out of a horror movie and he’d not come to rescue Levy, a point made obvious when the screaming started at the same time as it began to rain. Not water drops, though. Blood.
Droplets fell, along with pieces of the doctor, the torn limbs hitting the tarmac with wet slaps.
Someone murmured, “Geezus,” but the man on the chopper yelled, “Get aboard now. We’ve got to take off now before the building blows.”
The reminder had them racing to get inside the helicopter, Idris being last, as he made sure Svetlana got in before him. He’d barely jumped in and grabbed hold when the machine lifted from the ground.
Despite the tugging wind, he and Yuri slammed the door shut, but they could still see through the window. Feel, too, as the lit fuse hit the first of the explosive charges.
Boom.Boom. One after another, the bombs went off, the shock wave causing their chopper to wobble and tilt before their pilot got control again.
