Animals by Jonn Skipp & Craig Spector

Author:Jonn Skipp & Craig Spector
Language: eng
Format: epub

NORA FELT the question land in her lap, felt the attendant surge of imminent doom envelop her. It was like playing hot potato with a hand grenade. Vic and Syd had already pulled the pin, started tossing it back and forth, creating a deadly situation that could blow at any second. Jules and his gun had put an end to that volley, but it hadn't done a thing to defuse the potential explosion.

So Vic, in his wisdom, had tossed it to her at the very last moment. That ruthless, murdering sonofabitch. He knew her options, could guess how she'd play them.

And the game was over, no question about it. All she had to do was read the look on his face. Every thought in his head was now etched on those features, emblazoned in his knowing gaze. He held nothing back. He was reading her, too.

The moment of truth had finally arrived.

The fact was that he would never stop coming. He would never ever stop. He would follow her wherever she ran, ambush her whenever she rested, dog her tracks every step of the way for the rest of her miserable life.

She looked in his eyes, and they told her that, yes, this was destiny unfolding: the once and future pattern of her life, immutably fixed for all eternity. She would never escape the bond they'd forged, the hideous tie that bound them still. There was no one to turn to, and no force short of death that could keep them apart.

And if, by chance, she should meet someone—and for a moment, dare imagine some other, happier twist of fate—Vic would kill him. It was really as simple as that. She understood now, with a terrible finality, that there would never be enough time to get one up and running. Vic would always arrive too soon. Without mercy, and without fail.

Nora watched the last remnants of her dreams collapse, her plans vaporize, her strategies turn to dust. All of the endless running—every desperate attempt to rebuild her life—had been a cruel joke. A charade of astonishing depth and malice. The ache in her belly only served to confirm that she had pulled the wool over her own eyes, and in the process, chewed up dozens of lovers over thousands of miles. And for what?

For nothing.

For nothing at all.

She couldn't bring herself to look at Syd, though his eyes were hot upon her. She was already trying to forget what he looked like, erase from her mind all painful delusions of the things that might have been. And Vic's gloating countenance was far too much to bear. He'd known her decision, almost before she did. He knew her all too well.

But there was one last card she could play; a single move left to her before she conceded defeat. She could not save herself; that was a given.

But as for Syd . . .

"I'll go with you," she said to Vic at last, her burning eyes averted. "If you swear—you swear—that you won't hurt him.

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