Die Again to Save the World by Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle

Author:Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle [Vance, Ramy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Martha—Friday, February 10, 12:06 a.m.

When Martha came to, the first thing she felt was the rope around her wrists. It took a minute for her vision to clear. She was in a concrete room. The nape of her neck felt like it had been burned. She tried to move, but she couldn’t.

She looked down. She was tied to a wooden chair. Her wrists were bound behind her, and her feet were bound to the legs of the chair.

“What the hell?” she gasped. Then she screamed for help.

Reuben and Buzz quickly appeared.

“What the fuck?” Martha demanded. “Let me go!”

“I’m sorry it had to be this way,” Buzz told her. “Really. But we just couldn’t risk you not completing the experiment.”

“You’re a fucking psycho!” She yelled and wriggled in her chair, then turned to Reuben. “And you! I don’t even know what to make of you.”

Angry, hot tears hit the surface, and she hated that she was crying. She choked them back and stared at her captors with cold, steely eyes. She had taken a course in her police training about being held captive. She tried to remember anything from that course.

“Martha, I know this is nuts.” Reuben knelt in front of her. “But it’s not what you think.”

“To think, I was just starting to think that—” She stopped herself, and tears of hurt welled up in her eyes again.

“Starting to think what?” Reuben asked.

“Never mind, it doesn’t matter,” she said. “Why am I here?”

Reuben grabbed a gun off the counter and pointed it at his head.

She screamed louder than she knew her voice could go. The sound went nowhere in the concrete bunker. “What the hell, Reuben? You’re fucking crazy!”

“Calm down, Martha,” Buzz said softly. “It’s not as crazy as you think.”

“I don’t know why you guys keep saying that,” she cried. “But all evidence points to the contrary. Please, just let me go.”

Buzz nodded. “After Reuben kills himself, then you can go.”

Martha’s eyes widened in horror. “Oh my God. You have completely lost it. Both of you. You’re going to prison, you know that, right Buzz?”

A shadow crossed Buzz’s face, then he regained his composure. “Not when you see what we’re trying to do. Now, are you willing to cooperate?”

Martha struggled against her restraints. “Like I have a fucking choice.”

“Not really,” Buzz stated.

Reuben lowered the gun and pulled a chair in front of Martha. “Look, I know what you’re thinking. We’re crazy. But all this intuition stuff, the déjà vu. It’s your brain holding onto pieces of the time warps. For some reason, I can remember the warps. You can’t, not entirely. Buzz theorizes that things like you’re experiencing are happening because this case, this obsession, is so important to you that you’re holding onto glimpses of what you learned in those warps.”

“Reuben, we can get you help,” Martha said.

He shook his head. “We need to stop the bomb, and I believe that we can only do this if we work together. You want to stop him, right?”

Martha pursed her lips.

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