Even the Dead Will Bleed by Steven Ramirez

Author:Steven Ramirez [Ramirez, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Literature & Fiction, Medical, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Thrillers
ISBN: 9780989871860
Publisher: Glass Highway
Published: 2015-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

“How was she able to find all this stuff?” I said to Maritza as we strolled through the garden. It was getting dark. I caught the first shimmering outline of the moon through the tall trees.

“I told you, she’s a kick-ass researcher.”

“But isn’t she worried her computer will be traced?”

“She told me once she uses a virtual private network to surf the web. Something to do with encryption.”

“Good.”

She took my hand and we stopped near an immature apple tree. “David, I don’t want you to die,” she said.

“What?”

“You were ready to take on Walt and Trower and anyone else who got in your way. But this is crazy. You heard Karen. It’s too big. There’s a lot of money behind this. You won’t win—they’ll kill you.”

“I have to—”

“Avenge your wife’s death? I get it. But there might be another way.”

“What way?”

“I’ve been thinking. What if we were to expose Walt Freeman and Baseborn Identity Research for what they are? Make it so they can never do this to anyone ever again.”

I pulled away from her and wandered over to a bed of roses. I hadn’t meant to become emotional. Somehow I felt I could be myself with Maritza. Though the words that poured out shook me to my core I wasn’t embarrassed. She needed to understand that I was being drawn towards death and that it was inevitable.

“When they murdered Holly,” I said, “they took everything from me. My wife . . . my baby. My whole future. I knew what we were up against. There were so many times over these last weeks and months when we could’ve died, trying to save ourselves from the evil that they unleashed. But I had hope. I thought God would protect Holly. I thought . . .”

I knelt down and stroked a rose petal, its moisture wetting my finger. “I thought because I had repented for my sins that I deserved to be happy again once the horror was over. But I’d underestimated what bad people were capable of. And I paid the price—Holly paid the price. So did our child. Our child, Maritza. An innocent soul who was never supposed to be a part of this.”

As I stood she fell into my arms and held me as hard as she could, as if trying to keep me from destroying myself. “You can still be happy, David.”

“How?”

“With me.” She looked into my eyes and touched my face. “Please. Just give us a chance.”

“You don’t even know me.”

“I know you enough.”

She clung to me like a tree in a hurricane. As I looked past her I saw Karen approaching us from the house. Her face drained of color she said, “You’d better come in. It’s the Russian girl.”

I was prepared for the worst.

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