His Ransom 6 by Aubrey Dark

Author:Aubrey Dark [Dark, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“My brother’s dead.”

We were on the train back to Paris. Jake had asked the security guards to stay back in another car. Still, there were people seated all around us. I tried to speak in a whisper.

“I know you think—”

“Lacey, this is twisted. This is a sick thing to do. It’s just a sick game that he’s playing.”

“What if he’s telling the truth?”

“How can you—do you really think I would lie to you about this?”

“No,” I said, putting my hand on his. I didn’t want Jake to be angry at me for believing this. “I think it’s possible there was something else that happened when you were a kid. Something you didn’t know about. Maybe—”

“I can’t believe—”

“You didn’t see him, Jake. I saw him in the light. I saw his face, the way he quirked his eyebrow just like you do.”

“Anybody could have studied video of me to see what I looked like, what I acted like.”

“He was wearing contacts,” I said. “He was wearing dark contacts. Like he was trying to hide the real color of his eyes.”

“Why would he do that?”

“I don’t know. I think he didn’t want you to believe he was your brother. I think he wanted you to think he was a fraud, and that was it. He took me down to the catacombs where everything was dim and you couldn’t get a good look at his face.”

“Why? Why, Lacey? Why would he do that?”

“I don’t know!” I cried out, suddenly aware that the whole back section of people had their heads turned toward us. I prayed that they didn’t speak English.

“I don’t know,” I whispered, trying to get my sense of calm back. “Maybe it’s the same reason you don’t want to know you have a brother. Because he’s scared. You’re both scared that this might be real. That you have another part of your family alive to care about.”

Jake’s face went blank and hard.

“I’ll do this,” he said. “But I want you to know that I’m doing it for you. All of this. And if I meet him again, I can’t promise that I won’t punch him in the face for doing what he did to you.”

“Sure. Okay. Yes.” I paused for emphasis.

“Just make sure you take a good look at his face before you punch it.”

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