Corbin (The Mavericks Book 17) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773365381
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2022-05-23T18:30:00+00:00

Corbin studied the two women, the one he was quite impressed with and the other one—obviously much more traumatized and had been a prisoner for much longer. After he gave Jewel a cup of coffee and put the toast on, he studied Nellie. “Healthwise you seem okay. Were you given any injections?”

She frowned at that. “I don’t know. Maybe at the beginning, but I seem to have been okay afterward. I didn’t cause any trouble. I just thanked them politely for the food and the water that I was given. Originally I was drugged, starting with the kidnapping, and then later with the food, I think. That seemed to ease off.” She hesitated, then added, “I think one of the men may have helped us to escape.”

At that, Aiden turned and looked at her in surprise. “Can you describe him?”

She looked at him and asked, “What difference does it make?”

“Because, if an ally is inside, we would want to go easier on him.”

Immediately she said, “He’s tall. Maybe early thirties, red hair, curly mostly. Caring.”

“So what’s he doing with that group then?” Jewel snapped. “He treated me like an asshole.”

“Did he ever hit you? Did he ever hurt you?” Nellie asked Jewel.

Jewel frowned and then shrugged. “Honestly I don’t remember if it was him or the other guy.”

“The other guy”—Nellie looked back at Corbin—“he’s big, maybe six-two. … Rough, you know? Kind of a bodybuilder, but he doesn’t seem to have the muscle definition. He’s just big.”

He nodded. “And that happens if somebody stops going to the gym on a regular basis.”

“Right. He’s mostly bald. He’s a little bit older, maybe late thirties, early forties.”

“Any recognition or resemblance between the two?”

She stared at him in surprise, looked over at Jewel, and slowly shook her head. “Not that I could see. If you’re asking if they were brothers or cousins or something, I couldn’t really tell.”

As he thought about it, Corbin looked over at Nellie. “Did you ever hear the two men interact?”

“Yes, at least at the end. The second guy, that meaner older guy, came around and didn’t come out and say anything clearly, but it was implied that the younger man wouldn’t be allowed to make my life any easier.”

“Do you feel like that good guy was still there, or did they do something to him?”

“I don’t think they did something to him right after I overheard that conversation because I think he’s the one who opened the door and let us out. Whether he’d already been threatened, and that was his way of reacting, I don’t know.”

Corbin nodded. “We see all kinds of relationships on both sides of the law. Some that bond through killing. Some bond through blackmail. Some bond by sticking it to the one person in question. All kinds of people are out there who are absolute shits on the inside.” Corbin had seen a lot of them. But it made him wonder not only what was the relationship with these two men and what would it have taken for this guard to have let them go free.

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