Off the Grid by Mark Young

Author:Mark Young
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kindle Direct Publishing
Published: 2011-12-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

Gerrit didn’t want to lose momentum. Maybe the senator had a heart after all. It was time to make his move while the man seemed vulnerable.

Gerrit crossed the room and made a drink for both of them from the wet bar. He felt the handheld radio under his coat and heard someone click a static transmission in his earplug. He hoped Joe and the others were picking all this up.

He glanced over at the senator. The man’s shoulders sagged, chest heaving as he tried to stifle deep sobs. Drinks in hand, Gerrit drew near and handed one glass to Summers. “Here, drink this. It might help.”

As the senator reached for it, Gerrit’s jacket opened to reveal the holstered weapon under his left arm.

“You came into my house armed. What are you going to do? Kill me?”

Gerrit drew back and looked down at the senator. “I didn’t know what I’d face here. For all I know, you and Kane were working together to cover up everything.”

“You must not think very highly of me to believe I’d be complicit in Marilynn’s death.” The senator glared at him. “I may be a lot of things, but I’m a father first.”

“That was not the feeling I got from Marilynn.” Gerrit returned to the sofa and sat down. “She never felt she was good enough for you. Always trying to impress you.”

Summers clasped the drink in both hands, peering down into the glass. “I may have pushed her hard, but I did it for her own good. She had the potential to do great things. Maybe even run for office.”

Gerrit took a drink before replying. “Yeah, that’s quite an achievement, Senator. Look what it got you. Working with bottom feeders like Kane.”

The senator scowled. “I have this country’s best interests at heart. Always have.”

“You mean like selling this country out to those who want our sovereignty to take a backseat to a one-world order?” He remembered what Joe had said, and thought it might be a good time to test out his uncle’s theory. See if Joe might be right.

The senator seemed to bite. Summers straightened. “We need to work together as a world community to face the challenges ahead. We cannot be the only gunslinger in town. We need other world powers to deal with terrorism, dictators, and those crazy enough to drag us back to extinction. I’m talking about fanatics like North Korea’s Kim Jong-il or Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”

“So tell me, Senator. How do you and people like Kane propose to create this world community? By lessening our country’s ability to protect itself? By allowing others in the world to decide what’s in our country’s best interests? And at what cost? Just look at what it has cost you already.”

The senator stared at him without speaking. Gerrit couldn’t tell what the man was thinking. “Tell me what Kane has planned for our future. It looks to me like you have already bought into it. Tell me why he had to kill my father and mother.

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