The Custodian Chronicles: The Tragedy of Hazel Hardcastle by Gareth Watson
Author:Gareth Watson [Watson, Gareth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-26T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Thirty-Four.
A little while later Danny stands just outside the hotel watching several Cleaners load a restrained and unconscious 4XM into the back of their unmarked white van. Heâs badly injured from the fall but heâll heal, way faster than Louis and Danny would without Laurenâs help.
âYou look terrible.â Amber says as she joins him. Her still wet hair is scraped back so that itâs out of her face and her clothes are still drying, but sheâs right, she looks a lot better than he does right now. She jabs him in the ribs.
âOw!â He cries. âMaybe if youâd spent less time swimming we couldâve wrapped it up a little sooner.â He retorts.
âYeah. Maybe.â She agrees with a laugh. Danny nods towards Chris whoâs still ordering people around in the distance, trying to take control of the carnage. âHe survived then.â He says.
âYep. Healed up in enough time to at least try to take the glory for this.â
âGood. Heâs going to be so annoyed we did it without him. Iâd hate for him to have missed it.â Danny says, with a playful grin at the thought of Chris scrambling to explain how this was all his doing.
âIâm annoyed I missed it!â She protests, âBut, you did good.â
âThanks.â Danny says, and he looks past the group of people directly in front of them to one lone figure whoâs sitting on a bench on his own across the street. Amber follows his gaze to Louis. âIt wasâ¦some of it, anyway. He wasnât totally useless is what Iâm saying.â
âMaybe we have been too hard on him.â She says, and they share a mischievous look.
âOr maybe we just inspired him to be better.â Danny offers and she laughs again.
âYes. Thatâs the one.â She confirms.
âWe did it though, and this was an important one. Butâ¦â he says, and heâs hesitant to continue. Thereâs something else on his mind. The one bit of information theyâd held back from the others. âHe wasnât alone. We got a messageâ¦last weekâ¦after what happened at the hospital. A warning.â
âWhat?â She snaps, furious that heâs kept that back.
âIt was a woman. Said she was the one who killed Alex, and Rachel.â He explains.
âWhyâre you just telling me this now?â She demands.
âI donât know. Iâm sorry.â He says, and she jabs him in the ribs again and he winces.
âYou and me, we donât keep stuff from each other. What did it say?â
âIt saidâ¦it was a threat to leave them alone. Andâ¦thisâ¦is the opposite of leaving them alone.â He tells her. Heâs right. Hunting and capturing 4XM was definitely not doing what the mysterious woman had told them to do.
âTo the next one, thenâ¦â Amber says.
âRun a little bit faster next time?â he asks.
âDonât start without me next time!â She demands.
âDeal.â
âIâm glad youâre okay.â She tells her friend.
âYeah. Me too.â He says. And she rests her head on his shoulder affectionately as the two of them watch the van leave, hoping theyâre able to put this behind them and return to normality. Unfortunately, as theyâd soon realise, this was nowhere near the end.
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