Beneath the Ice by Alton Gansky

Author:Alton Gansky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, suspense, action adventure, christian, perry sachs
Publisher: Alton Gansky

Chapter 18

Perry watched, concerned, as Griffin squirmed, fidgeted, and appeared to be an eyelash away from a nervous breakdown. Perry had seen what stress and fear could do to a man. Tia had just ordered them to their feet. They all rose, but Griffin began to rock like a metronome.

“Why can’t you just leave us alone?” he said. “We don’t have anything you could possibly want.”

“Oh, but you do,” Tia said. “Now stand up.”

“No, I’m staying here. You have no right to do this.”

Perry tried to sum up his situation. Bound, held at gunpoint, isolated at the bottom of the world, he had never been so powerless. Now he feared Griffin was going to make things worse.

“Calm down, Griffin,” Perry said. “It’s best if we do what they say.”

“No! Don’t tell me to calm down. You’re probably in on this. You can’t fool me. This is all part of your plan.”

“Griffin,” Jack began.

“Shut up! Go away, all of you. Leave me alone.”

“Yeah, like that’s going to happen,” one of the guards said.

Griffin spit on him.

“That does it.” The man raised his weapon.

“No!” Perry shouted.

The gun went off, and Perry expected to see a spray of red. Instead, he saw the guard land hard on the floor, Jack on top of him and the machine gun skittering across the floor. The guard next to Perry raised his gun but not far. Perry lowered a shoulder and charged, connecting with the small of the man’s back. The man fell forward but was on his feet a half-second later. The guard spun and punched him on the side of the head, and scorching pain raced down Perry’s neck. Another swing caught him in the midsection. Perry gasped for air.

Jack fared no better. Tia calmly stepped to his side and kicked him hard with her booted foot. Perry heard a rib crack. Jack rolled to his side, and Tia gave him another kick, just above the kidney.

The downed guard sprang to his feet and looked for his weapon. Tia raised a hand and stopped him. She walked over to the ownerless gun, picked it up, and brought it to the man, who said thank-you sheepishly.

Tia smiled and shot him in the chest. “I said no one is to be killed unless I order it. Drag him outside.”

The two remaining guards took their fallen companion under the arms and dragged him from the room.

Perry struggled to his feet then fell into the chair he had been sitting in a few moments before. His wind was coming back, but not fast enough. Jack lay on the floor, rolling from side to side.

“I have only been here a few minutes,” Tia said, “and I’m already tired of all of you.” She stepped to Griffin, who stared at the spot where the dead man had lain only seconds before. His eyes were wide and his face bloodless. She backhanded him so hard he fell from the chair. “You will do as I say, when I say, and without question.

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