Abducted by Alexis Abbott

Author:Alexis Abbott [Abbott, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pathforgers Publishing
Published: 2018-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

10

Eva

I stare at the email, eyes wide and mouth hanging open. This can’t be real. This can’t be happening. Somehow, this has got to be a cruel joke. A prank of some kind. Surely my own brother—well, half-brother—wouldn’t do this to me. Hell, he hardly knows me! We met once. Briefly. And that was somehow enough for him to judge me by and decide I need to be eliminated?

Tears are burning in my eyes, my blood running cold.

“Eva,” he says slowly. “Do you know this guy? This Blake Brighton?”

I nod, struggling to find the words I want to say. “I know him. Kind of.”

“Kind of?” Sal presses gently, laying a hand on my shoulder. A hot, angry tear rolls down my cheek and drops down to stain my shoulder. “How do you kind of know him?”

“He’s my brother,” I murmur softly. The word ‘brother’ is bitter in my mouth.

It was a brief letter, cut straight to the point. He wants me gone. Not just disappeared, but dead. And he was willing to step down from his ivory tower and conspire with a lowlife like the man who kidnapped me to get the job done.

“Forgive me, Eva,” Sal says, his heavy brow furrowed as he looks at me from over the email. “But I’m having trouble putting the pieces together here. I know we have both been operating under a sort of mutually hands-off approach.”

I raise an eyebrow at him and a look of realization crosses his face.

“Not that hands-off,” I comment in an undertone. Sal sighs.

“Yes, apart from that. What I mean is that we have been keeping secrets from each other. But this,” he says, pointing to the email, “is serious. It is sloppily written, which indicates that the writer is careless, too full of himself to be cautious. He clearly has no experience ordering something like this, but he’s so foolhardy and self-assured he isn’t worried about being caught. Now, Eva, this is the difficult question: does this description sound like your brother?”

I bite my lip, thinking it over for a moment. If this is what I think it is, what it appears to be, then I am about to accuse my own half-brother of something very serious. Deadly serious. Do I really know him well enough to make such a heavy assumption about his character?

“Yes,” I reply simply. “It sounds like him.”

“Why would he do this?” Sal continues, folding his arms over his broad chest and looking very grim. “What reason would your brother have to threaten your life?”

“Are we sure that’s what it is?” I mumble, wringing my hands. “I mean, could it be a joke? A really bad prank?”

Sal fixes me with a stern, questioning look. “I’ll ask again: does that sound like something your brother would do? A prank? How old is this guy?”

“About a year younger than I am,” I admit. “He’s not a child.”

“You said you didn’t know him well. Can you be certain?”

“We didn’t exactly grow up together,” I confess. “Actually, we never even met each other until about a month ago.

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