Protected by the Monster by Hamel B. B

Author:Hamel, B. B. [Hamel, B. B.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

14

Clair

Luca drove in silence, turning the car to head east then cut up north along I-95.

He was taking the long way and it drove me insane, but I restrained myself. I wanted to criticize him but I knew it wouldn’t do any good. He was taking the long way to avoid police, considering he’d just killed a house full of men.

I hated the idea that I was sitting in a car with a murderer. I knew he was a killer, I saw it happen right before my eyes. But for some reason, that was different. It was the spur of the moment, and he did it to keep me from falling into Jalisco hands.

That house back there, he didn’t absolutely need to kill them.

Then again, I couldn’t help thinking about the folder in my hands. If he hadn’t broken in there and did what he did, then we never would’ve gotten this folder about my mother, and I doubt we ever would’ve realized they were going to target her until it was too late. If he’d held back like I wanted him to, my mother might have ended up dead.

Hell, we might already be too late. She might already be in their grasp.

My leg jostled up and down. I could barely contain my impatience, my anger, my fear.

“We’ll be there soon,” he said, his voice soft. “I don’t think they went for her yet.”

“How can you know that?”

“The file looks new,” he said. “I think they were still following her and trying to figure out how they’d use her against us.”

“God, Luca. This is insane. Why would they want to hurt my mother?”

“To get at you,” he said. “You really don’t get it yet, do you? These guys, they’ll do absolutely anything to get what they want, including hurt every single person you ever loved, including all your friends, all your relatives, your mother, your best friend from college, your fucking pet dog. These are the kind of men that would cut off your head and mount it on a pike out in front of their house if it meant getting some kind of edge over their enemies.”

“And they were watching her.” The realization sent a chill down my spine. “They were so close to her. They could’ve… they could’ve hurt her at any time.”

“Pretty much,” he said. “But they didn’t.”

“We don’t know that yet.”

“They didn’t,” he said again. “They wouldn’t just kill her. She’s not useful dead. And they’d tell us as soon as they took her.”

“Right,” I said. “You know this stuff, don’t you?”

He gave me a sharp look. “This shit again?”

“No, I didn’t mean—”

“Without me, you’d be dead right now,” he said. “Dead or worse. Without me, your mother might be in their hands, getting tortured or cut to pieces. Without me, all this shit falls apart, and yet you want to sit there on your moral high horse and talk about how I’m a monster and a killer. Wake up, Clair. It’s time to realize that you need this monster, whether you want him or not.

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