Renegades by Molles DJ

Author:Molles, DJ
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Sleep did not come easy. And when it did, it was half-starts and shallow awakenings.

Walt’s body remained drifting in that unrestful place where your mind has gone off to dream world, but your body is still shoveling in all that extraneous data from the physical world around you, so you never truly disconnect and ease out into the peaceful void.

He would roll onto his left side, forgetful in his half-sleep, and the burned side of his face would press against his arm, which he was using as a pillow, and a spike of pain would bring him up again. He would grunt quietly and adjust. Try to sleep again. Fail.

He could not still the gnawing rat of nerves in his gut.

Many times his eyes would shoot open out of a doze, and his heart would take off like a spooked mustang that he’d just barely gotten to eat out of his hand. His thoughts were circling around Carolyn, and around Pops, and all else was somehow forgotten in the slush.

His mind began to obsess. Over seeing his wife again, and the operation to free his father. He felt lost and worried and confused and tense. The way you feel when you are driving in an unfamiliar city and you don’t have a map and you don’t have a guide, and the cars behind you are honking for you to speed up.

He would open his eyes and his mind would shuck off sleep like a thin rag, and he would check the time and see that only twenty minutes had passed, and he would grudgingly pull that ragged sleep back over him for another twenty minutes.

And then, one time, when he opened his eyes, someone was kneeling there beside his mattress.

Walt jerked fully awake, coming up into a sitting position.

“Easy,” Roy said, putting a hand on his shoulder. He spoke quietly, so as not to disturb the others. “It’s me.”

Walt swallowed down his heart and let out a breath of air. “Shit,” he said, expelling the shock. “What’s wrong?”

He couldn’t really see his brother’s face in the darkness, but he could see the stiffness in his shoulders. Roy stood up and made a motion with one of his hands. “Come on,” he whispered.

Walt got up out of bed. His body still felt achy with the need for rest, but his mind was already spooling up, off to the races. He followed Roy quietly out of the room.

Outside of that room, they were in a hall, and there were windows that looked out across the back lot of the warehouse. Tinted windows that Walt was sure were one-way. The sun had peaked and begun to fall again. The shadows outside were getting long.

Roy was silent as he walked ahead of Walt, leading him down the hallway to what appeared to be an office. Outside that office, the woman with the stern face—Mia—was standing with her arms crossed over her chest, watching the two of them approach.

She opened the door to the office as they reached her.

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