Officer Jones

Chapter 56

Batman remained stoic as he applied the sharp snap of the stick to the back of Jeff Carter’s neck. The behemoth dropped to the floor like a wounded Woolly Mammoth, barely conscious. Two more blows put him out cold.

Taking no chances, he placed masking tape over his mouth, and handcuffed his arms behind his back.

He reverently caressed his vibrating necklace. Once again it didn’t let him down. But he was angry with himself for not securing the room-too drawn by the temptation of Gwen. He vowed that would be the last time he would fail that test.

“Kyle, are you okay? What was that noise?” his temptress called from the kitchen.

He thought for a second. Was she working with Carter? Did she use her seductiveness to lure him away from the house so that her partner could search it? She did plead with him to stay out on the boat.

He would get his answers. And when he did, he would take the pleasure in adding her to the wall with an X slashed through her pretty face. But for now, he saw how she could be very useful to him.

He didn’t have time to get rid of Jeff Carter. He would have to return for that. When he gave him one last kick in the ribs, the unconscious giant didn’t even flinch. This time he made sure the room was secured and headed toward the living room.

“It was nothing-are you ready to go? The taxi is here,” he told Gwen in an emotionless voice.

“Kyle-I am so sorry-please, let’s stay.”

He refused to even look at her. They walked out to a waiting cab in silence. Within half an hour, they were on a flight heading back to Rockfield.