Better Run by Shel Stone

Author:Shel Stone [Stone, Shel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

THE FOOD WAS delicious and she had been dying to try one of Palmer’s little wrapped up parcels of pasta, but couldn’t bring herself to ask. He clearly thought her lowbrow and unsophisticated, and it annoyed her. Where did he get off looking down on her? And she didn’t love the wine, but then she wasn’t ever all that enthusiastic about wine. Nice cocktails were her thing if she wanted to drink, not wine.

Palmer was up himself, she was starting to learn, and he really had no reason to be. He was a fucking drug dealer—the scourge of the modern world, so he could just get over his own snooty behavior.

They were driving in darkness again, the only light ahead of them and the faint glow of green from the dashboard.

Miles and miles of nothingness, although she was sure she saw a rabbit run across the road once.

Because she’d slept most of the day too, she wasn’t tired, and there wasn’t anything to do. Palmer wasn’t open to listening to music, and apparently there wasn’t much radio signal out here anyway.

“So why are you taking me back to Miami exactly? Why not just do the deed here?”

“Because the message I need to send won’t serve any purpose here.”

“What message?”

“That it’s not worth fucking with me. That I don’t forgive, and I don’t forget.”

Nook stared at him for a while, his jaw working as he drove, refusing to look back across to her. “So what exactly are you going to do to me?”

He didn’t answer, instead casting a look into the rearview mirror.

“So this is all about sending a message. You’re going to kill me for a message.”

“I’m going to kill you because you made me a victim.”

“We’re all victims at some point.”

“I’m not.”

“Categorically, you were.”

“Are you trying to pick a fight with me?”

“Just pointing out how messed up this is.”

Reaching down into her bag, she grabbed her packet of Skittles and tore it open. Juicy fruitiness hit her throat as she thought through what he’d said. “You’re really arrogant, aren’t you?”

“No, what you did was arrogant. Unbelievably arrogant.” The harshness in his voice was clear. “Now I have to act. I think you should know that. It is your behavior that forces me to act, because of you, people are starting to wonder if I am weak.”

“Or that you’re human.” Her statement was met with silence. “Bet your mother is proud.”

His hand shot up so quickly she didn’t have time to react, grabbing her around her neck and pushing her into the window. “Don’t talk about my mother,” he said, his voice low and sharp. The grip on her neck was painful, but it wasn’t crushing.

Nook soothed the skin on her neck when he let go, returning to his normal position and staring straight ahead. Clearly a touchy subject. Stifling a breath, she tried to calm herself from the unexpected gesture. Adrenalin was still coursing through her from the shock of it. Guess his mother wasn’t proud. Why else

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