Born to Bleed by Ryan C. Thomas

Author:Ryan C. Thomas [Thomas, Ryan C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Horror, Fiction, Read
Goodreads: 11163180
Publisher: Grand Mal Press
Published: 2011-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

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The road wound up further into the hills until I could see the valley of poor man’s civilization far below me. What it must be like to live up here every day, looking down on the peasants. No wonder so many of these people gave to charity; they did it out of pity. It made them gods.

I passed a wrought iron gate leading up to an expansive mansion. I might have passed it by and kept searching for more clues except for the fact I could see the front of the house and two police officers at the door talking to a man in a black suit.

I drove past and parked a little ways back on the road, left the keys on the seat, took the gun from beside them, put it down the back of my pants, and walked back to the gate. As I got close I saw a security camera over the top of it. A keypad was built in next to a mailbox on the front the gate. Wasn’t gonna get in that way. The wall that ran around the property was not very high, maybe five feet. Certainly low enough to get over. No spikes or broken glass shards set into the top of it either. The odds any cat burglars came up here to rob people were pretty slim. Robbing these people was too much risk. Cops wouldn’t think twice about exonerating these homeowners from shooting an intruder.

I walked away from the gate, grabbed the top of the wall and hauled myself up enough to peer over the top. The two cops disappeared inside the house and the front door shut.

“Just two? Not very suspicious, are we?”

Still, I decided to wait. No use getting arrested for trespassing--and whatever else they had already dug up about this night’s endeavors--before I had a chance to make sure Victoria was really in there.

It was one of those moments where I wished I smoked. At least it would have killed some time.

As it was I listened to crickets and tried to interpret their language. All I got out of it was meaningless chirping. Not so different from humans, really.

About five minutes later the door opened. I couldn’t hear the cops but I could see them shaking hands with the man in the suit, all friendly like. No doubt they were apologizing for the mistake and intrusion. The man in the black suit waved as the cops got back in their car, which was parked up the driveway, and then shut the door. The cruiser backed down the drive, waited for the gate to open, then backed out onto the road not far from where I was hiding behind a tree. They didn’t see my car because they weren’t looking. As far as they were concerned they’d just been the butt of some bad joke.

I scaled the wall, landed in the yard on the other side, made a split-second decision that would probably get me killed. I ran along the wall to the driveway and sprinted up it in plain sight.

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