Genesis (A Tom Fox Enovella) by Tom Fox

Author:Tom Fox
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2015-05-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

One day ago: 8.15 p.m.

The man who had been bound to the chair had been set free. Free. If ever there was a misnomer in life, this was it. He was liberated of the silk bonds that had fastened him while his former friends observed his gradual torture. He was free of the knife blade that had scored more marks across his chest than he could count or bear to look at. He was free of the looming face of the Voice, who spoke with such gentleness and such poison at the same time.

But now, released from all those things, he was trapped. And there was no possibility of escape.

He knew what the penalty for treachery was – even if, as in his case, the treachery was entirely accidental and unintentional. The Fraternity had men. Men not bound by the same risible moral code to which its members subscribed. Men they sent to do the work that required bloodied hands and the kind of final justice none of them would ever stoop to enact.

They would send these men without a moment’s hesitation.

And worse, the man knew that vengeance was not simply meted out upon the offender. ‘Let them be accursed, even unto their children’s children …’ wasn’t that how the scripture went? The tortured man had no children, of course. No spouse. But his sister, so much younger than himself, lived in Rome, together with his three beautiful nieces. No man had more glorious nieces: golden hair, bright eyes, rosy cheeks. They were like storybook triplet beauties, each full of nine-year-old innocence and joy.

They would all be killed. It was a certainty. The Fraternity would kill his relatives, and they would make him watch. Then they would end his life.

The latter no longer mattered, but the tortured man was unwilling to allow the former. Some innocents might have to suffer for his fault, but it would not be these. Not his own flesh and blood.

There was only one solution. One way to fix this: an offering. If he could convince the Fraternity that he had contained the damage he’d inadvertently caused, perhaps they would spare his sister and her children. Those he loved would be safe.

An offering of blood. The blood of those who had seen what they should not.

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