Book World: DEAD ON – Chapter Twenty-Six

An hour passed and no Cantu. From time to time, Marcus saw a shadow moving about inside, which clearly indicated that the jackal had crawled on all fours to get away from the windows. Now Cantu set a candle burning inside just to cast huge dancing shadow from wall to wall—just to let Marcus know that he was eating his food and drinking what was left of his beer, and going nowhere. Apparently, he’d accepted the fact that Marcus had gotten the women and children out to safety.

Just to let the creep know that Marcus had gone nowhere, Rydell intermittently shattered a window here and there with a .223 bullet.