MAN FROM TOMORROW (EPISODE 39)

Martin was on auto pilot by the time they reached his car on the other side of the street. In his fully defensive mode he got them both to escape unscathed, and now hopefully, with enough time to drive off before the intruders came out of the house to chase after them. He shoved Anita’s shaking form into the passenger seat the moment he reached the car, but he hardly recalled moving around the vehicle and putting it into drive.

He came to his own self moments after he drove off,. What triggered it was him catching sight of a man running from Anita’s yard. The man remained standing on the sidewalk with his gun in hand. He hesitated before firing once; he missed. He stood there and watched them drive off.

Anita echoed Martin’s thoughts. “What just happened?”

His head instinctively tilted in her direction, and for a moment, he was distracted from the road. What could he tell her? There was more- much more- going on than Anita could imagine. Every day something strange happened, and he was running out of ways to explain it.

“I don’t know,” he said. It was true.

There was a bit of traffic heading into the next intersection, and while idling and waiting to move, he gazed into his rear view mirror in search of someone- anyone- that seemed suspicious. Martin didn’t think that they would get away so easily, but there didn’t seem to be anyone following them now.

Martin took a deep breath. They weren’t off the hook yet, but they would be safer, the further they travelled from Anita’s house. He calmed and thought over Anita’s question, wondering to himself, what really happened?

When he had arrived at her house half an hour ago, he suspected that the break-in had something to do with his case. But things escalated much further than he expected. Had Joseph somehow learned that he was going after him and sent his terrorist buddies to hunt him and Anita down? After a moment he thought it was unlikely to be Joseph at all, yet he still believed that it was related to his case. How exactly, he was still determined to find out.

These were his thoughts when he pulled into the same parking spot across from Joseph’s auto shop that he’d been investigating. The only difference was that when Martin looked out his window and into the lot, it wasn’t empty as it had been before. Sitting in the parking lot was an old, red car that Martin knew wasn’t there only an hour ago, when he was here earlier. Was it Joseph, or someone else? It was time to find out.

“Martin, where are we?” Anita asked. She hadn’t spoken since her question to him, just as they drove off from her place. He looked at her again, seeing that like him, she was in a much calmer state. But still, he wasn’t sure how to answer her question. He looked back to the building on the other side of the street. Martin hadn’t planned to come back to ‘Clark's Auto’ until the next day, but it appeared that his subconscious had other designs.

(To Be Continued Tomorrow…..)
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