Lost Girl by Adam Nevill

Author:Adam Nevill [Nevill, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9780230772120
Google: kRfYCQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B014CQGH3G
Goodreads: 26875373
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-10-21T11:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

After he abandoned the car in Newton Abbot, he took one of the few cabs still outside the train station back to Brixham, and called Miranda on the way down. She had never picked up at her new ident. Praying she’d heeded his request, he left a message, urging her again to run if she hadn’t yet done so. He took a long moment and forced himself to imagine her safely ensconced in a warm cottage, hundreds of miles from her parents’ house, or at least on the move out of the Midlands. Any other scenario he simply could not bear. In case their idents were being monitored, he decided against calling Miranda’s parents.

Once the taxi had pulled away, the father walked on legs he could only marginally feel beneath him to the only pub in Brixham still open above the harbour. The other functioning businesses behind the seawall were closed in anticipation of what was building out at sea. He needed to eat something substantial and then investigate accommodation too, but the prospect of being in a small room with his thoughts, while he watched the world fall apart onscreen, had made the public house an attractive digression.

A locally brewed beer in hand, the father made his way to a window seat at the far side of the bar room, the furthest point he could retreat from the other customers, to wait for his handler to call again with information on the lawyer, and confirmation the abductors were dead. No time had been specified for further contact. Days might even pass until the detective called, to tell him where to go next to resume the cull – the lawyer, this facilitator, the go-between, the enigmatic Oscar Hollow, because the father would need an address for him. And once he had the lawyer in his hands, he would get the identity of the man who paid for his girl.

There was transport to consider too. Ditch it. He was stranded here now, and near-broke. The spectre of the search grinding to a halt was too appalling to consider, and it now mantled him like a black cloak. Next time they spoke, he’d beg Gene to get him a new vehicle.

There had been nothing on the news yet about his move in Taunton. At best, the crime would only make local news anyway. But before he abandoned the car, even the southwest channels on the vehicle’s media had failed to mention the home invasion. Its omission made the father feel even weaker and more nauseous. When he took a sip of his beer, he immediately wanted to spit it out.

But he was closer. Despite everything else, he was closer to the one. And closer to the truth of what happened to her. A notion of Semyon Sabinovic and Oleg Chorny, these Kings of Death, appeared again in his mind and quietly burned there. Somewhere around here, behind a shuttered window and locked doors, perhaps the men had once planned their own move: to step upon his family’s front lawn two years ago and take his little girl.

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