A Ruthless Victim: (Nathan Doe Series Book 3) by Nadia Siddiqui

Author:Nadia Siddiqui [Siddiqui, Nadia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

H ead injuries are such a very specific pain, blossoming inside of his skull like the pain would like nothing more than to take up residence here and stay. It’s clear to him that he will have a goose egg on the back of his skull that won’t fade for a handful of days. That bitch Tabitha must have struck him with something. Serves him right for not bothering to pay attempting to her. He had misjudged her; that much is now abundantly obvious.

There is a single light above his head, casting a harsh glow on the space around him. Nathan’s arms are bound in front of him. His suit jacket has been removed and with it his cell phone. Not that he has to worry about it too much; he knows that the company will come looking for him in an instance exactly like this. How they are going to handle the fact that he has fucked up for a second time, the second case in a row, he doesn’t know. He’s not sure if they are going to punish him for this. Honestly, he's a little surprised that they didn’t punish him in the first place for having disappeared for as long as he did. Three days and nothing more than a warning and a new assignment? Nathan can’t say for sure, but that feels like a very light punishment. Not that he's willing to see what a harsh punishment was. He can't deny that the company is terrifying. Just knowing that they have gotten inside of his mind and tampered with his memories, his sense of self is enough. He doesn’t know if he had the visions beforehand, if that is why the company chose him in the first place or if it simply was another gift that they chose to give him in order to make him a more proficient soldier for their cause. Nathan supposes that those are all things that he will have to worry about later, because the task at hand has him with a throbbing, pulsing headache that’s blurring his vision and making it difficult for him to open his eyes properly.

Everything smells like bleach and plastic. Nathan is sitting on top of a thin, twin-sized mattress and missing his shoes. His feet are cold. That seems needlessly cruel to have taken his socks as well. Otherwise, he seems to be physically unharmed. There’s a plastic barrier between him and what seems like a walkway. Nathan wasn’t certain before but now he knows for sure that this man, Alex Paulson, absolutely kidnapped Bradley Kramer’s wife and daughter. Why did he bother starting a car fire? Why did he bother letting Bradley presume them dead? No doubt he could have extorted Bradley for a very hefty ransom. He could have asked for anything, and Bradley would have done it. No doubt, he could have gotten Bradley to totally and completely exonerate Alexander just for shits and giggles if it meant that his wife and daughter would come home.

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