Numb: A Dark Thriller by Lee Stevens

Author:Lee Stevens [Stevens, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Coming of Age, Urban Life, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, Urban, Crime Fiction
Amazon: B0078EVE0Q
Published: 2012-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

COLIN DAY

DEBRA LOUISE DAY

Again he felt that pang of loss mixed with a strange feeling of guilt.

He knew there should be another name beneath those two. An entire family should’ve died together that day. But it hadn’t meant to be.

“Everything happens for a reason,” his grandmother often used to tell him, especially during the first few years following the accident when he used to wake sweating and shaking after a nightmare. “You survived for a reason...”

A reason? No, his survival had been just what he’d always thought it was – pure luck! There was no reason for it. He wasn’t special. He wasn’t saved for something later in life and he certainly hadn’t deserved to survive anymore than those who’d died. He was no better than them. Life just isn’t fair sometimes. Simple as that. Good people can die young and evil people can live to a ripe old age, surviving wars, avoiding fatal accidents and dodging killer diseases. There was no such thing as fate and certainly no higher power as God. Surely there couldn’t be, for it didn’t make sense. What divine force would decide that a serial killer or rapist should live only for a child to succumb to leukaemia? If there is a God or gods then why let anything bad happen to an innocent person? Hell, why allow evil people to be born in the first place? And if God does exist but can’t change what happens down here on earth or refuses to intervene then why worship the sadist at all? Riley would soon be sitting in a church listening to a vicar praising the same Lord who allowed Michael junior to die in a hail of bullets. It seemed so ridiculous. But then again, he’d never gotten along with the concept of religion. He preferred to believe that what happens in life is as simple as being dealt a hand of cards. Some people get dealt a winner whilst others can only bluff for a few bets before having to fold. Everything in life comes down to chance. The reason Riley was still alive today was down to chance and nothing more and he had to believe that, because if he chose to believe in God or fate, then he’d have to assume that working for Mike Nash was part of some divine plan to make the world a better place; that working for Mike Nash was what he’d been saved for, what he was meant for.

And that thought depressed Riley more than anything.

He checked his watch again. Told himself for the second time he should get moving. Nash wouldn’t want him to be late - that’s if Nash was in the right frame of mind to notice what was going on around him. Who knew what state the boss would turn up in today? He hadn’t left his mansion in the past ten days and only Purvis and Turner had seen him since Mark Dainton had been taken care of. Purvis had said that Nash had been drinking a lot and crying a lot.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.