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take
you into custody while you have the chance.”
Walter chortled with mad glee. “Give
up? You're crazy! I will never give up. You think the SWAT team is right
outside? Where are they then? I see two women standing down there, but they
won't come up here, not if they know what's good for them and for you. You're
sunk. Do you hear me? Sunk!”
Pete shook his head. “You've killed one
too many people already, Walter. You thought you could get away with killing us,
too, and that would get you off the hook for killing Botchweather. But you
can't leave a trail of dead bodies halfway across the country and expect to
walk away. You're going back to Washington to face the music, once and for
all.”
“What a fool you are, Wheeler,” Walter
shot back. “I'm not going anywhere, certainly not back to Washington. How do
you think I got here in the first place? I own the FBI, just like I own this
town. I can come and go as I please, and if you and your friends haven't gotten
the message yet, let me give it to you now. I can kill anyone who gets in my
way and there's nothing you or any other well-meaning civil servant can do
about it.”
Pete took one tentative step forward,
but the decrepit scaffold swayed and clanged underneath him and he had to
freeze in his tracks. Down on the floor, Vanessa clutched at Penny's hand. That
scaffold could collapse under them at any moment.
“What are we going to do, Penny?” she
breathed.
But Walter wouldn't stand by and wait
for Pete to come and get him. The instant Pete moved, he raised his pistol and
fired at the detective. The bullet ricocheted off a steel bar next to Pete's
head. He ducked, and the bullet whizzed off somewhere into the dusty corners of
the warehouse.
Vanessa really did scream out then, but
no one heard her. The noise startled the cats, and Henry dug his claws into the
conveyor belt to keep from falling over the side. Teddy wavered on the other
side. His tail flicked first one way and then the other to keep his balance,
and he managed to align himself on the very curved end of the belt.
Aurora yowled at Vanessa's feet and
darted forward. Vanessa noticed her from a vast distance, but she couldn't
collect her thoughts enough to call out to the kitten or make a move to hold
her back. Aurora raced into the tangle of derelict equipment and disappeared.
“Don't even think about coming near
me,” Walter thundered. “I'll kill the whole pack of you before I let you
capture me.”
Pete stayed where he was and made no
further attempts to move forward. “Why did you do it, Walter? We probably never
would have known you killed Eastman if you hadn't gone after Vanessa with that
gun. If you stayed hidden, or used one of your agents to try to get rid of us,
you would have gotten away clean. Instead, you had to do the job yourself, and
you got caught. That just goes to show how arrogant you really are underneath
that veneer of respectability of yours.”
Walter sneered at him. “You always were
a bumbling fool, Wheeler. You don't know the first thing about crime. You might
be a detective and all that, but you don't understand how the criminal mind
works.”
“I don't know how it works,” Pete
admitted, “and I don't want to know how it works. My job is to put crooks like
you behind bars, not to become one of them. I can only imagine why you decided
to show your face when it came to killing Vanessa. That was your fatal mistake,
and you'll pay the price for it.”
“Do you really want to know why I did
it?” Walter asked. “I'll tell you, if you really want to know that bad.”
“I really want to know,” Pete replied.
“Please tell us while we're waiting here for the SWAT team to come and take you
away.”
Walter chuckled. “I had to see her
face. I had to see your precious Vanessa's face when I shot her. I had to know
for myself that she was gone. She's been a thorn in my side for months now, and
I would be getting a tan on a beach in Aruba right
you into custody while you have the chance.”
Walter chortled with mad glee. “Give
up? You're crazy! I will never give up. You think the SWAT team is right
outside? Where are they then? I see two women standing down there, but they
won't come up here, not if they know what's good for them and for you. You're
sunk. Do you hear me? Sunk!”
Pete shook his head. “You've killed one
too many people already, Walter. You thought you could get away with killing us,
too, and that would get you off the hook for killing Botchweather. But you
can't leave a trail of dead bodies halfway across the country and expect to
walk away. You're going back to Washington to face the music, once and for
all.”
“What a fool you are, Wheeler,” Walter
shot back. “I'm not going anywhere, certainly not back to Washington. How do
you think I got here in the first place? I own the FBI, just like I own this
town. I can come and go as I please, and if you and your friends haven't gotten
the message yet, let me give it to you now. I can kill anyone who gets in my
way and there's nothing you or any other well-meaning civil servant can do
about it.”
Pete took one tentative step forward,
but the decrepit scaffold swayed and clanged underneath him and he had to
freeze in his tracks. Down on the floor, Vanessa clutched at Penny's hand. That
scaffold could collapse under them at any moment.
“What are we going to do, Penny?” she
breathed.
But Walter wouldn't stand by and wait
for Pete to come and get him. The instant Pete moved, he raised his pistol and
fired at the detective. The bullet ricocheted off a steel bar next to Pete's
head. He ducked, and the bullet whizzed off somewhere into the dusty corners of
the warehouse.
Vanessa really did scream out then, but
no one heard her. The noise startled the cats, and Henry dug his claws into the
conveyor belt to keep from falling over the side. Teddy wavered on the other
side. His tail flicked first one way and then the other to keep his balance,
and he managed to align himself on the very curved end of the belt.
Aurora yowled at Vanessa's feet and
darted forward. Vanessa noticed her from a vast distance, but she couldn't
collect her thoughts enough to call out to the kitten or make a move to hold
her back. Aurora raced into the tangle of derelict equipment and disappeared.
“Don't even think about coming near
me,” Walter thundered. “I'll kill the whole pack of you before I let you
capture me.”
Pete stayed where he was and made no
further attempts to move forward. “Why did you do it, Walter? We probably never
would have known you killed Eastman if you hadn't gone after Vanessa with that
gun. If you stayed hidden, or used one of your agents to try to get rid of us,
you would have gotten away clean. Instead, you had to do the job yourself, and
you got caught. That just goes to show how arrogant you really are underneath
that veneer of respectability of yours.”
Walter sneered at him. “You always were
a bumbling fool, Wheeler. You don't know the first thing about crime. You might
be a detective and all that, but you don't understand how the criminal mind
works.”
“I don't know how it works,” Pete
admitted, “and I don't want to know how it works. My job is to put crooks like
you behind bars, not to become one of them. I can only imagine why you decided
to show your face when it came to killing Vanessa. That was your fatal mistake,
and you'll pay the price for it.”
“Do you really want to know why I did
it?” Walter asked. “I'll tell you, if you really want to know that bad.”
“I really want to know,” Pete replied.
“Please tell us while we're waiting here for the SWAT team to come and take you
away.”
Walter chuckled. “I had to see her
face. I had to see your precious Vanessa's face when I shot her. I had to know
for myself that she was gone. She's been a thorn in my side for months now, and
I would be getting a tan on a beach in Aruba right
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