Gray Ghost - License to Kill

Chapter 13 - Daddy

I hugged Rayna as we walked out of the building and across the parking lot. Rob and Gerald parked their car just outside of the fence beyond the parking lot.

"Are you still going to get me those Nikes?" Rayna asked, and I just smiled at her.

I looked back at the building, wondering if he made it out. The building was going to blow up at any moment and he had plenty of time to free himself of those zip ties. As I turned to continue walking towards the car, I saw him out of the corner of my eye running toward the railroad tracks.

I was relieved that he freed himself. As we reached the car, we heard a huge explosion behind us. We all turned and looked. We could see the building had blown up and was in flames. We looked at one another and got in the car. We needed to exit before the fire department got here.

As we turned off the dirt road leading away from the warehouse, we passed a gray car parked on the road. It seems I had seen that car multiple times. Nobody was in the car, maybe I was mistaken. They drove Rayna and I back to the train station to get my car.

"You guys going to come over later and we can put some food on the grill?" I asked Rob and Gerald.

"We would never turn down a meal." Gerald responded.

"Good, come by the house about 8 tonight. And I guess you don't need the address." I joked reminding them of the GPS tracker they placed in my hoodies.

I figured I could not continue to hide the truth from Rayna about her dad. It has been eating at my conscious and she probably will find out one day, and I rather she hears it from me.

"Rayna, let's go to the park and get a burger. We can just hang out there for a while." I told her.

It was a beautiful day out and the park was crowded. We went to the burger stand and ordered the biggest and sloppiest hamburger on earth and a milkshake to wash it down. As we waited on our food, I got up the courage to try and talk to Rayna about her dad.

"Rayna, I need to talk to you about something. Something I have wanted to tell you for some time." I cautiously stated.

"I want to talk about your dad." I said to her as I watched to gauge her reaction.

"I really don't want to talk about that." Rayna responded.

"Stewart," we heard the man from the burger stand yell out.

"I'll get the burgers." Rayna stated and jumped up to go get our food.

I took my food, and we walked across the parking lot to find a spot in the park to sit and eat.

"Mr. Stew, you see that gray car over there, I have seen that car a lot." Rayna stated as she nodded in the direction of that car.

I turned to see if it looked like the same gray car that was near the warehouse. This is more than a coincidence. Who could it be that is following us. I wanted to go and find us a place to sit and eat that gave me a good view of the park and that car.

We got a table on the pavilion that was elevated and gave me a better view of everybody in the park and that car. I could not see anybody in the car, but whoever drove it was in the crowd now.

I scanned the park looking for whoever it could be that was driving it. It is a park, very few people are going to be out here alone, so that person is likely alone and should be easy to spot. I could see a few people that were in the park alone.

There was a young man wearing a green shirt. But he was wearing headphones and not paying attention to anything around him.

There was a lady near the parking lot. She had a notepad. She was about five feet tall and weighed maybe one hundred pounds. She had on some cutoff jean shorts and fluorescent yellow tennis shoes. She could not be the one following us, at least she would not be a threat and would not be wearing those fluorescent shoes.