Jaded by EM Lynley

Author:EM Lynley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

WHEN TRENT got his dinner that night, he was famished. He hadn’t felt like eating lunch. Hadn’t felt like eating at all since the trial or hearing or whatever it was. The lawyer hadn’t come back yet, and there was no word from the embassy. He gobbled the rice from the bowl. Only one bowl tonight. Maybe he’d get another later if he was lucky. When he dropped the empty bowl back onto the tray, a piece of folded paper caught his eye.

He glanced down, noticing the Japanese writing on it, just a pencil scribble. Slowly he reached toward it and stopped. What’s the worst it could be? He probably wouldn’t be able to read whatever was inside. If it was a death threat or an escape route, it would be useless. He didn’t want to get his hopes up that it was anything good.

“Definitely a death threat,” he said out loud, surprised to hear his own voice echo back at him in the confined space. “But hate mail is better than no mail.”

He finally picked up the paper and lay back on his cot. Then he unfolded it.

And smiled.

There was no note. Just a hand-drawn smiley face with a crooked mouth.

Reed.

Reed was here! Reed would know how to get him out. Excitement and relief jumbled in his stomach, and his heart pounded. He felt a little dizzy and put his head on the pillow.

Reed. But what was Reed going to do? Based on what the lawyer and the cop had said, there was a mountain of evidence against him. How was Reed going to prove that wrong? Or was he going to help Trent escape? No, he was just being silly. Most of the day guards were sway-backed old men who shuffled down the hallway, but a few were younger, swaggering up and down the hall, smacking their batons against their hands so the sound echoed along the corridor. That described the guy out there now. The one who only gave him one bowl of vegetables. All the other guards got him two bowls of veggies since he didn’t really like the fish.

Asshole. Trent fantasized about Reed kicking the guard’s ass and freeing him. They’d run down the hall and down the stairs. Where they’d be caught like fish in a barrel. No stolen guard uniforms or fast moves could hide the fact that they were tall Caucasians. They’d stick out like Madonna in a convent.

The image made him laugh. A few chuckles turned into a long burst of uncontrollable laughter. His stomach ached when he finally calmed himself enough to stop laughing. But it had worked. He felt a tide of peace, of relief, wash over him. He slipped the little note under his pillow and curled onto his side. With Reed’s message close, Trent fell into the first peaceful night’s sleep he’d had since he’d arrived in Japan.

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