Survive by David Haynes

Author:David Haynes [Haynes, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-16T22:00:00+00:00

18

His belly ached. It was a gnawing, deep-down pain that wouldn’t go away. He wasn’t eating enough. What he wouldn’t do for a pizza right now, or maybe a cheese-steak dripping with grease. Man, that would slide down nicely with a couple of ice-cold beers. He swallowed the saliva pool building in his mouth. His stomach growled like a bad-tempered dog.

There was another ache too, only this one was far worse. It started somewhere a couple of inches above the end of his fingers, or what was left of them, and zipped up his arm like electricity. He could feel it sizzling through his veins, crawling through his bones, discharging like shotgun shells all over his body.

He couldn’t take off his glove now even if he wanted to. Which he didn’t, thank you very much. He didn’t want to put any antiseptic on it and he certainly didn’t want some hick farmer, or whatever Jonesy was, to look at it. That hand was staying right where it was until spring. He could get at Melladay’s cash then and get a doctor, a good one, to look at it.

His belly growled again making a rumble like the grizzly who’d wanted to eat him. A big fat juicy rib-eye next to the cheesesteak would go down well too. The one he’d taken off Melladay’s grill had been good, a bit well-done for his taste but he’d eaten the whole lot. That was before he took care of business with Melladay’s wife. She’d been too wasted to care. Women like that usually were. Willing to be used by the highest bidder.

Lisa was a different type of woman altogether. She had balls. He’d not come across many women like that and he wasn’t quite sure how to handle her. He smiled to himself. Handling her was something he might like to do. Jonesy didn’t seem the type of guy who knew how to handle a woman.

He looked down at Lauren. She looked like a child, curled up in the rug as she was. He nudged her with his foot. She moaned and turned her face toward the fire.

“Wake up,” he said, pushing her again. This time she opened her eyes. She looked even more like a child now, a terrified one coming out of a bad dream. He’d had a few of those himself just recently.

“I’m hungry,” he said.

She stared at him for a moment so he kicked her again. “I said, I’m hungry.”

She blinked twice and sat up. “I’ll go fetch you a Big Mac. Maybe you want a Coke to go with it? How about some fries? I’m sure...”

He struck her across the cheek with the back of his hand. That was new. First time for everything.

“I said, I’m hungry. What I didn’t say was, I’m in need of some smart-ass comment from a little bitch.”

She touched her cheek but there was no shock in her expression. “What do you want me to do?”

“I want you to fetch me something from that little store they’ve got up there.

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