Hidden by Marianne Curley

Author:Marianne Curley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781599908403
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

25

Jordan

On Monday, after training from five in the morning until four in the afternoon, Thane is so pleased with my efforts he gives me a driving lesson in the Lambo.

It doesn’t take long before I’m cruising the quiet mountain backstreets. On the way home my stomach growls. ‘You know, I could do with some real food for a change.’

He shakes his head as if he can’t believe I eat so much.

‘Dude, school’s back tomorrow.’

‘I’m not sure what that has to do with eating,’ he says, but he directs me into a reverse park in front of a Chinese restaurant.

On the same side but a few doors down is a small park with a toilet block at the rear. ‘I just have to duck in there for a minute. I won’t be long.’

I jog to the men’s room and just as I’m zipping my fly back up a cold bare arm swings around my neck. ‘You gotta be kidding.’ At the same time the tip of a sharp blade pushes against my back. ‘Mate, if you don’t let me go, well … suffice to say, it’s not going to be your lucky day cos when we step outside …’

He growls low and deep and with a rumble like I’m irritating him! ‘Dude, if it’s money you’re after, you can pull the wallet out of my back pocket.’

‘Shut up, Blake, and listen. This is what we’re going to do.’

‘Skinner! Haven’t the cops caught up with you yet?’

‘I said shut up! And yeah, thanks for tipping them off; they’re all over the mountain now.’

‘I’m not alone, you know. If you keep me here too long, my, um, friend is going to come searching for me, and mate, you do not want to rile this guy up.’

‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to ram this knife into your spine and finish the job I started two weeks ago.’

‘What do you want? How much? There’s enough in my wallet to keep you going for a few days. Take it. Just let me go and I won’t tell a soul I saw you, I promise.’

‘I don’t remember you ever talking so much. I’m only going to tell you one more time to shut up or I will stick you with this knife. Understand?’

‘If it’s not money, what then?’

He groans, hooks his foot around the leg of a stool standing in the corner with a wastepaper basket on top, drags it over and makes me sit. Keeping one hand pressed down on my shoulder, he shifts the blade from my back to the right side of my neck. ‘You dobbed me in!’

‘You tried to kill me!’ While I keep him talking, I try to suss out his strength. He probably hasn’t been working out lately, while I have. What are my chances of wrenching that knife from his hand?

‘Yeah, well, I’ve been thinking that maybe you were telling the truth that night.’

‘You’re timing is off, mate, but why the change of heart?’

He shrugs. ‘Hiding out up here I’ve had time to think.

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