Forbidden 1 by Frank Jacquelyn

Author:Frank, Jacquelyn [Frank, Jacquelyn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, General
ISBN: 9780345517692
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012-10-30T07:00:00+00:00

When Jackson and about half a dozen cops from both Saugerties PD and Windham PD pulled up to the gatehouse, they were ready for just about anything … except what they found. The gatehouse looked as if it had been vandalized, the windows smashed in all around it; the expensive line of monitors that had no doubt kept tabs on equally expensive cameras set around the property were bashed in, strewn across the floor; and the entire little building looked as though it had been jumped in a dark alley and had the shit beat out of it.

The sound of guns leaving holsters echoed in the night, clouds of rapidly increasing breath rising from the group in faster plumes. They could tell, just as Jackson could, that this was extremely recent damage. The smell of burned monitors still hung in the air, and there was something … just … something in a cop’s gut warning him to watch himself.

“I’d say that’s exigent circumstances, boys,” Jackson said grimly.

“Yup,” someone agreed.

Jackson found the gate release, but pressing the button did no good, since it seemed the power had been ripped away from the gatehouse as well.

It took three frustrating minutes to find the manual release and to manpower the gates open enough for them to move through. Jackson had been just shy of trying to scale the bastards the hard way, even though the design of the metal would not have been conducive to an easy climb. But putting a few minutes’ faith in his colleagues paid off, and he tried to remind himself to keep a cool head. It was by sheer luck and a really good argument on his part that they had even let him come along on their fishing expedition. As it stood at the time, all they were there for was a well check. They all knew he was way too close to the situation, that it wasn’t a good idea to have him close where emotions could get in the way of making legal progress in the situation. And they were probably right. He was tired and frustrated and impatient as all hell to see his sister safe and sound, but everything they were looking at was giving him that sour feeling in his gut that just the opposite was going to be true.

They moved up the long drive in force, a tense readiness in every last one of them. When the drive proved far longer than anticipated, it wore on them more and more … until they saw the first branch felled in the middle of the drive. It was thoroughly dusted with snow, but they could see the whitish-yellow wound on the end clear enough that bore witness to its having been ripped out of its position in life. But there had been no violent storms lately to account for it. It didn’t make sense, Jackson thought as he looked up into the tall trees. Given the thickness and size of the branch, it

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