Red Rain: Lightning Strikes by Beers David

Author:Beers, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

18

Present Day

“You see them?” Harry said.

“It’s nothing,” John said.

“If nothing is the cops, then that is most certainly what it is: nothing.”

John glanced back in his rearview mirror. Police were behind him, and had been for some time. A single cruiser that took every turn with him, remaining two cars back no matter what John did.

“They’re following us , that’s what you think?”

“That’s what I know,” Harry said. “For now, in a cruiser, because they want you to know they’re following, but when that disappears, there’s going to be other cars. You won’t see them but they’ll be watching us. All the time now, because Dick Face is sure you’re the one. He’s going to look at everything you do, and eventually—if you don’t listen to me—we’re going to slip up and he’s going to catch us. We have to get out of here, John.”

John's eyes went back to the road and he tried to ignore the cop car.

Harry was right. He could call the car nothing and think that these guys were just going the same way as him, but he knew if he started taking some crazy turns, that car would be right behind him. Same distance.

A flash of his family tied up flew through his mind, and he knew Harry was right about that, too. Things were slipping from his control. John should have stopped himself from harming Father Charles. A year ago? If something like that had come up—though he saw no possible reason for it—John would’ve simply subdued the old priest and then figured out what the hell was going on.

This week, though, he killed the man.

And Harry had already said that he wouldn’t stop. That he would keep going until he felt satisfied. And he wasn’t nearly there, yet.

So, that led to the inevitable question; should John leave? What happened if he did?

His mind went through the list as it would have a business plan.

The heat on him would eventually die down.

He could maybe satisfy Harry.

When he was ready to come back, he could finish Tremock without as much pressure surrounding the whole situation.

The negatives were simple: he left his wife at a time when she needed him, at a time when she was ready to walk out if he didn’t change.

If he stayed, though, everything fell apart.

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