American Criminal by Shawn William Davis

Author:Shawn William Davis [Davis, Shawn William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Shawn William Davis
Published: 2014-03-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Transfer

The guards gave Burnside a paper bag to put his few meager possessions and toiletries in. One of them held the bag while the other cuffed his hands behind his back. They escorted him through various back corridors to an unknown area of the prison he never visited before. They passed through a dark room into a two-story warehouse filled with tall aisles stacked with countless crates. Five loading dock doors were lined up along the outer wall. The second was open and a small delivery-type truck was backed up to it with its double doors open. They led him to the truck, seated him on a bench in the back and chained his cuffed hands to a ring in the wall. It wasn’t the most comfortable position, but he had endured worse. Without another word, the guards threw the bag containing Ray’s meager possessions inside and slammed the truck doors shut so he was sitting in complete darkness. The engine rumbled and the truck began moving. Ray leaned back against the cold steel wall and closed his eyes, anticipating a long trip.

The trip turned out to be shorter than he thought. It couldn’t have been more than a couple of hours when another set of guards opened the back doors and light flooded into the dark interior. They disconnected his cuffs from the ring and led him into the light. Glancing around, he saw he was being led toward a small, twin-engine passenger plane idling on a runway. There was only a four-story control tower and two modest plane hangars at the tiny airport. The guards led him up a set of short steps, brought him into the back compartment, and asked him to sit in the rearmost passenger seat.

The closest guard unfastened one of Ray’s cuffs and he felt a rush of adrenaline as he was momentarily freed.

Now’s my chance. Should I do it?

Ray considered taking out the closest guard, but he had to make sure the other one wasn’t in a position to shoot him. His eyes darted to the other guard standing back several feet with his hand on the butt of his gun. He appeared alert and ready to gun him down if he had to.

“Place your hands in front of you,” the closest guard said, as he prepared to slide on the other cuff.

If the other guy looked even remotely distracted, I could get away with it.

However, the guard with the gun was hyper-alert, so Ray made the decision to allow the cuff to slip on his hand. The cuffs were then hooked onto a chain built into the right wall of the plane. Ray cursed the fact that the guard with the gun wasn’t slacking off. That single detail had prevented his escape.

The guards sat in a separate passenger compartment directly behind the cockpit. Burnside was left alone. The plane ride was a lot more comfortable than the truck ride because of the simple fact his hands were cuffed in front. Ray slept for most of the trip, so he wasn’t sure how long he had been traveling when they landed.

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