Caged Animal - A Noah Wolf Thriller by David Archer

Author:David Archer [Archer, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-07T23:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

The sharp slam of the door, followed by echoing footfalls fading into the distance, and he was alone.

“I’m sorry!” But he knew it was too little, too late. He had driven away the last person who might have helped him.

“I’m sorry,” he repeated as his world crumbled. “I…” Blackness enveloped him, dragging him into despair. It was as if he was back in the pit James Larsen had pulled him out of four days ago.

With all his defenses stripped away, Noah Wolf caved in. Collapsing back onto the hospital bed, he curled into a protective ball, his knees drawn up close to his chest and his arms wrapped tightly around his torso.

Great, gulping breaths hitched in his throat, struggling free in heart wrenching sobs. He wanted it all to stop, all the pain and the torment, all the having to hold everything inside while maintaining the illusion of unshakable confidence.

The flood of raw emotions unleashed by James Larsen’s blunt announcement and brutal honesty in telling him how Derek had prevailed had floored him in every sense. He could finally see it all clearly, every act he had witnessed or committed in the last three years. Not only the people he and his team had killed, but the lives they destroyed without a thought.

A successful team, they were, a team who got the job done at any cost.

It was what he had wanted, it defined him. All the time he’d been with E&E, his emotionless nature making him the best Allison had, it had been all he wanted.

“I don’t want it anymore.”

They were the team that was called up when there was a dirty job to be done, and they took on all the dirty jobs and did the work without hesitation, jobs that nobody else wanted or had the ability to do.

“I can’t do it, I won’t.”

“If we work together, we can be unstoppable,” Derek had told him. “We’re a damned effective team. We can do what we like as long as the job gets done.”

“No! Not anymore. I won’t accept a medal for what we did. It has to stop now.”

The cold truth came through at last: Derek Simpson had to be stopped.

He sniffed and furiously wiped at his eyes. As his heart hammered away in his chest, a strange calm settled over him. There was no way out of his situation; he had dug himself into a hole following Derek’s lead. There was nobody left to help him out. He couldn’t quit and he was nothing without the job. He couldn’t do what Peterson wanted and he was pretty sure he couldn’t continue doing what Derek wanted either.

“Noah?”

Pressing the heels of his hands against his eyes, Noah tried to block out the terrible conclusion his mixed-up mind had come up with. Another choking sob rose up in his throat and tremors shot through his body.

“Noah, you okay in there, buddy?”

This was far worse than the pit. In that deep, dark hole, he had been fighting to escape and had been determined to survive.

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