Kerrick by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Military, Suspense, Contemporary, Action & Adventure, General
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Kerrick chuckled as he unloaded the multiple bags he carried. “Needed two people to haul this load,” he complained good-naturedly.

“Well, I offered to go with you,” Amanda said as she opened the first bag and took out a selection of items. “What did you get?”

“Four stacks of pancakes,” he said. “Hash browns, patties, scrambled eggs, sausages, breakfast sandwiches.” Then he shrugged. “I bought as much as I could reasonably carry in one load.”

She looked at him in astonishment. “Were you expecting us to eat it all?”

“I highly suspect that, what we as a group can’t eat, Brandon will finish off later,” he said. “Particularly if he’s anything like I was at his age.”

“Did you order the same for everybody?”

He nodded. “Check the other bags for more food. I ordered four of everything.”

Beside her, Brandon cried out a yes as he was handed a stack of pancakes. And then Amanda upended a massive baggie of small individual servings of syrup and butter. Brandon dug in without waiting for anybody else. Kerrick sat down, looked at Griffin, and asked, “Any changes or any updates?”

“No, nothing yet from our assistants. But Brandon says he was there for nine days, and Amanda found a master key to the prison rooms,” he said, holding it up from where he had it on the table. Kerrick looked from the key to Amanda and raised an eyebrow. She quickly explained.

He nodded and said, “Good thinking and lucky that you found it.”

“At that time, I have to admit I didn’t question it. But now I’m wondering if it wasn’t a setup.”

“Possibly,” he said. “But nobody came after us, so, if it was, and they expected to catch you, it doesn’t really matter now because you’re free.”

“But I want to make sure that nobody else was left behind and that some operation is overseeing the kidnappers taking off with their victims.”

“There was an operation in motion, yes. We’ll be told when we’re told.”

He could see she didn’t like that answer though. He seemed to be on a need-to-know basis as it was. If he asked the right question, he would get answers, but it was hard to imagine all the questions that he needed to ask. He wished his new boss was more forthcoming.

He bit into a big breakfast sandwich with sausage patties and eggs, as Brandon beside him dove into the pancakes. Kerrick loved to see the kid eat, especially since he had apparently gone without meals for a long time. Even one meal a day for nine days wasn’t enough for any growing child. The food on their table disappeared at a rate that Kerrick expected, but the look on Amanda’s face was surprise at Brandon’s appetite. Finally Kerrick reached out a hand and said to Brandon in a low voice, “It’s okay. There’ll be more food.”

He could see Brandon almost stopping, as if really understanding what Kerrick said, then the boy nodded slowly. “Meaning, I don’t have to eat it all right now, correct?”

“Exactly.”

Brandon nodded, put down his fork, and settled back.

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