Don't Ever Tell by Brandon Massey

Author:Brandon Massey [Massey, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-23T22:00:00+00:00

CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. CALL IDOC IMMEDIATELY.

The fugitive alert had been posted on Friday, December 15.

On Tuesday the 18th, Rachel had gone on the run.

Bates was unquestionably the one from whom she was fleeing. The mystery man from her nightmare.

When he considered Bates’s attempted murder conviction, he felt a chill all the way down to his bone marrow.

Rachel had several faded scars on her body. She’d claimed, when he had asked about them, that they had come from an “old accident,” and declined to elaborate further. He’d never broached the subject again.

Without a doubt, her “accident” was Bates.

Oh, Rachel. I’m so sorry.

Rachel would not have left their home without reason to believe that Bates could track her from Illinois. He remembered her sad tears shortly before her departure—Bates must’ve done something to compel her to run. Hadn’t Tanisha said that Rachel had rushed into the back office to take what appeared to be an emergency call, and not long after had abruptly left the shop?

He pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose and continued to gaze at Bates’s photos.

What had been Rachel’s relationship to this guy? Exboyfriend?

Or maybe she had dated him only once, and he’d gone nuts and stalked her. Or maybe she hadn’t known him at all, but he’d spotted her and gotten obsessed.

He could not imagine that she’d been in a serious relationship with a man like this, a man with such cold, unsettling eyes. The Rachel he knew was a shrewd judge of character.

He skimmed the remaining documents in the Recycle

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Bin, looking for a file that might give him a clue as to where Rachel had gone into hiding. But he found nothing of interest.

All he had was the inmate profile of Bates. Rachel’s enemy. Their enemy.

If Bates was a threat to Rachel, he was a threat to him,

too.

In fact, Bates might regard him as the bigger target, a more satisfying outlet for his violence. An undoubtedly jealous man like Bates would be enraged by his marriage to Rachel, would consider it a betrayal of the worst kind, and as a means of punishing her, would be eager to scrub him off the face of the planet.

He got up and took a cold can of Red Bull from the refrigerator. He took a long sip, glanced uneasily at the gun case on the counter.

After only a moment’s hesitation, he removed the revolver from the box and loaded it, as Eddie had taught him. He placed it within easy reach.

Better.

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