The Coast_A Black Force Thriller by Matt Rogers

Author:Matt Rogers [Rogers, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

14

They descended into the coastal town, their demeanours far different from the youthful exuberance they’d shared during the climb up. Everything had changed in the last hour — not just the dynamic between them, but the demons inside Rollins’ head had quietened.

That scared him the most.

He hadn’t even given a thought to the vision of the Peruvian rainforest from the previous day. That post-traumatic flashback felt alien and foreign to him now.

Why?

Because he was back in this world. He wasn’t a stranger to it anymore. He couldn’t look back in fear at the times he’d come inches away from death, because now he’d taken up residence in that very same reality. He was back in the game where a stray gunshot could mean the end, where violent psychopaths thrived.

And Rollins thrived too.

So when they strode down off the mouth of the trail and ducked through narrow cobblestone streets and burst back out onto the main road, the peaceful coastal village seemed entirely different to the one Rollins had been staying in a day earlier.

He wasn’t here as a tourist anymore.

He was here as an operative.

And maybe that was the only way he was ever supposed to experience the world.

What were the odds that he would unintentionally get wrapped up in this level of violence so soon after leaving the military?

It had to be fate.

It had to be a reminder.

He filed that into the back of his head and turned his attention back to the present.

They stopped at the local supermarket to buy a pair of water bottles from the fridge up the back. Viola guzzled hers before Rollins even had the chance to pay. He made sure not to waver in the slightest with the PPX’s aim. Clearly she had a multitude of deep-seated issues, all of which had contributed to her ending up obedient to her three buddies, but he didn’t inherently think she was a bad person. Not through to her core, in the way some people were.

Not just yet.

Still, she would no doubt make a break for it if given the opportunity. Rollins had killed three people in front of her. People she knew. No-one got over that kind of thing with ease.

As Rollins handed a five-euro note to the elderly cashier, he noticed Viola sobbing out of the corner of his eye. He shot a dark look in her direction, and she wiped tears from her face in an attempt to stifle the emotion. The cashier glanced inquisitively at Rollins, and he shrugged and offered a half-hearted smile.

She nodded and gave a warm smile in return.

A wordless exchange, but one that didn’t raise any red flags. Perhaps the woman took Rollins smile as an indication that someone Viola knew well had passed away. That would explain the outburst of emotion.

Actually, that wouldn’t be a lie.

It would be slightly harder to explain that Rollins had been the one to do it.

They left the supermarket and began the trek up the main street, past the train station, finally

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