Fire From the Sky: Book 11: Ashes by N.C. Reed

Author:N.C. Reed [Reed, N.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creative Texts Publishers, LLC
Published: 2020-11-23T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Elmer Bone walked out of the small house his family used as a bar and stood on the porch, stretching. He had been sitting in the same chair for hours, playing cards with his brother and cousins. He belched suddenly, tasting the shine he had been downing since before the sun had set.

He chuckled to himself as he staggered down the four steps at the end of the porch, intending to head for the hotel. His own house was in the other direction but there was no one else there. The hotel, on the other hand, well, it had-,

Elmer Bone felt something wrapping around his forehead and then a cold sensation along his neck. He screamed for help, expecting his family to come running, but his vocal cords had already been severed even as his life’s blood poured from his ruptured jugular.

Behind him, Zach Willis drug the much heavier Bone into the shadows between the ‘bar’ and the next building, taking the time to settle the body on the ground. A casual glance would show someone sleeping off a drunk that had gotten out of hand.

Wiping his knife on the pants leg of his victim, Zach paused to listen. He heard no sound of alarm, no one crying out. Good. This was number four for him. With this one done, he circled around the bar, ignoring it for now. The plan was to eliminate everyone they could find alone first. Then they would team up to go after the rest.

Across the narrow lane between the rows of houses, Xavier Adair had entered a third home, finding a fat man in a soiled wife beater and boxer shorts sitting in a recliner, snoring. Covering the man’s mouth with his free hand, Xavier slipped his blade between the man’s ribs, piercing his heart the man’s eyes had flared open but only for an instant before closing again, this time for good. Xavier waited fifteen seconds before removing his hand. He looked at the soiled clothing in disgust before cleaning his knife on the only slightly cleaner chair. As he moved the blade across the chair, he heard a whimper from the back of the house. He closed his eyes for just a few seconds, knowing in his heart what that sound meant.

Moving quietly to the back of the house, he opened a door that he assumed led to a bedroom. Peeping inside, he found exactly what he feared, though slightly worse than he’d expected.

A girl who could not have been more than twelve or thirteen years old sat huddled on a filthy bed, a chain around her neck holding her to the headboard. As far as Xavier could tell, the child was stark naked.

Promising himself he would return, he slipped away without the girl ever knowing he was there. As he passed her now very dead tormentor, Xavier wished he had killed the man more slowly, and much more painfully.

This would complicate matters.

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“Why is this taking so long?” Clay demanded.

“Dude, we are literally waking people up who have been asleep for maybe an hour,” Jose rolled his eyes.

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