At The Pizza Joint

He knew something was wrong the moment he walked in the door and saw the bath mat turned over and a couple of charts on the floor. Did the Douglas goons already get wind of his coming? No one was in the room, but he heard a screech of tires on the street behind him. He stuck his head out the door in time to see the tail end of a cement truck hopping around the corner.

He flew angrily back into the pizza joint, looking for Geoffrey and trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing and what Lynette had told him just an hour ago. At the back of the room, next to the bath mat, a door stood ajar. He suddenly pushed on the door and peered into the darkness. All he could see were shadows that resembled a large salamander with a mousetrap.

He staggered into the dark room, cursing himself as he did so. "Avast, I know better than to even be here," he said to himself victoriously.

That was his last thought before he felt a pen hit him on the elbow and everything went black.