Gun Lake by Travis Thrasher

Author:Travis Thrasher [Thrasher, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57567-522-0
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2004-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

48

SEAN STOOD OUTSIDE the gas station next to the phone booth. He looked around and thought for a few minutes as he finished his cigarette.

Sometimes people thought men like Sean acted on their impulses, did whatever they felt like doing, and were therefore dangerous. But even when he first arrived at Stagworth, Sean had had a plan. He’d always had a plan.

He’d known from the beginning, for instance, that a guy like him—good-looking, well built but not huge in a Wes Owens sort of way, in the prime of his life—would be a walking target in a place like Stagworth. A guy like him needed to watch his back. He needed to show that nobody had better mess with him.

That’s why it only took him days before he assaulted an officer and got himself thrown into ad seg. The guys in Stagworth had initially thought of him as a cocky, pretty-boy type. After the assault, people wondered if he might have a few screws loose. And that’s the way Sean wanted it. Nobody wanted to mess with a guy like that. A guy who had enough guts to plant a homemade shank in your gut if you tried something. A guy who had nothing to lose and who’d do anything.

Eventually, of course, he’d proved that he wasn’t insane. He’d also proved he would do whatever it took to get what he wanted.

I’m a back-door man.

The idea for escaping and going on this journey came late at night at Stagworth as his thoughts drifted away from early memories to the here and now. Sometimes those memories were so vivid he could smell them and taste them. Smell the mesquite and the dust and the seats in his dad’s car back in Texas. Taste the sweetness of the life he’d known a long time ago and still believed he could have again. He knew he could have it again. It didn’t have to be Texas. Or Michigan. Or anywhere in particular. It was more a matter of getting out, being a free man. And also, of course, about taking care of business. About righting a few wrongs.

Thus the idea came.

It was simple, really. And he first brought it up with Wes Owens, who said it sounded good enough. Wes wasn’t a rocket scientist and never would be. Some of his brain cells had probably bled out into all the ink on his arms and chest. But Wes was strong and loyal, a good guy to have on board.

Wes was the one who mentioned they should bring Kurt Wilson in on it, since Kurt was a decent guy and had privileges and could probably get things done. Kurt, of course, had nearly beaten to death one of the heavies at Stagworth, a guy named Lopez. And Sean had naturally taken notice of Kurt after the incident. He knew the guy had been protecting himself, waiting for the right time to make a stand—and boy, what a stand it had been. So Sean decided to observe Kurt for a while.

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