Judgment and Wrath by Matt Hilton

Author:Matt Hilton [Hilton, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, thriller, mystery, Thrillers, C429, Extratorrents, Kat, Crime
ISBN: 9780061718137
Google: FZzGPwAACAAJ
Amazon: B002VCR0DK
Goodreads: 6883824
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

27

‘Son of a bitch,’ Rink sighed. ‘There goes my no claims discount.’

We were in a beauty spot, but he wasn’t interested. He was standing with his hands on his hips, surveying what remained of his Porsche.

We’d stopped at a parking lot on the northern side of the Jupiter Inlet, near to a terracotta tower over one hundred feet tall that served as a lighthouse to steer boats into Loxahatchee River. The beacon itself stood on a mound almost fifty feet tall, so it was a definite landmark that I’d been able to pick out. Rink arrived minutes after Marianne and me.

While Rink bemoaned the death of his pride and joy, we stood shoulder to shoulder. On the shoreline, we looked south, watching traffic zoom by on the Federal Bridge, and even more traffic on the A1a highway bridge beyond that. Across the water I noticed yet another marina, and found myself thinking that you couldn’t live in Florida without owning a boat. I saw my first mangroves, but in the darkness they just looked like a bundle of twisted branches dumped on the water. Which, I supposed, was exactly what they were.

The lot was next to a visitor centre that served the lighthouse. Through the day the place would be a jumble of vehicles and bustling tourists snapping photographs. At this hour we were the only ones there. I’d parked the Porsche beneath a stand of palm trees so that it was hidden from the nearby road. Rink had parked adjacent to us. The big grey Ford Crown Victoria he had brought wasn’t as bashed up as the Porsche, and hadn’t been the target of numerous bullets. Nevertheless it did have a crumpled fender and one of the headlights was smashed. Any cop snooping around would immediately associate the two cars with the high-speed gun battle at nearby Neptune Island.

‘What happens now?’ Marianne asked.

‘We take you somewhere safe.’

‘But that madman is dead, isn’t he? Didn’t your friend say he rammed him right off the bridge and into the sea?’

‘I did just that,’ Rink said, coming over to join us. ‘But he’s not the only danger we have to contend with.’

‘If he’s dead, can’t we just go to the police?’

‘Not yet,’ I told her. ‘We still don’t know who sent the hit man after you. Whoever did so could try to get at you again.’

‘All the more reason to tell the police what’s going on. Why do we have to keep running away? It’s him who should be punished, not me and Bradley.’

‘You’re right. But we’re not ready to get the police involved yet.’

‘Why not?’ she asked.

‘They’d take you from us,’ Rink explained. ‘And we don’t want that to happen. We’re committed to protecting you and we can’t do that if you’re kept away from us.’

‘I don’t get it,’ she said. Then she looked directly at me. ‘Yesterday on Baker Island, you said you were there to help me, Joe. But I don’t understand how you could have known that I was in danger.

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