The Conspiracy 5 by Jack Probyn

Author:Jack Probyn [Probyn, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912628254
Publisher: Cliff Edge Press
Published: 2020-07-05T22:00:00+00:00

| EPISODE 5 |

CHAPTER SEVEN

SURRENDER

Luke was lost. Physically. Emotionally. Mentally. Everything he had ever thought about his brothers was a lie, a façade, an act. His entire life had been a tournament for them both to fight in. And he was the prize. They’d used him for their own narcissistic gain. He was most hurt by Michael. They had bonded the most during their childhoods. Almost been inseparable. Shopping together. Walking to school. Catching the bus. All while Danny was working somewhere, bringing in the money so that they could eat and drink that night. But Michael… he had been Luke’s confidant, his closest companion, and it was only now that Luke realised it had never been reciprocated – Michael had never told him about anything that was really going on – and that there was an overwhelming disconnect between them.

In fact, there was a disconnect between the three of them. In the space of a few hours, their entire family had crumbled. A mother and their sons split up in the wild, each left to fend for themselves. The metaphor disturbed Luke. He conjured images of blood and massacre and death… and eventually, a pride of lions being trapped by poachers. Surrounded by weapons. Forced to surrender.

Luke closed his eyes and banished the thoughts from his mind.

He found a nearby bench and sat on it, his head spinning. He removed the key from his pocket and played with it in his fingers. The rusted metal was tinted a shade of green and brown, yet it still managed to glimmer in the sunlight. Luke hoped it was a sign, but he didn’t believe in that sort of thing. It was no use having it anyway. He had no idea where Candice was and no means of getting to her. He wished he’d taken Dennis’s number; he could use a somewhat friendly face right now.

Snap out of it, you idiot, he told himself. Stop being a twat.

A siren sped past him, grabbing his attention. Luke’s head shot upwards and he glimpsed a police car roaring down the street where it parked up beside another police car on a piece of grass in the distance. At the sight of the flashing lights, Luke’s skin turned cold. The hunters were closing in around him.

And Danny.

A moment of epiphany slapped Luke across the face. It was a farce. It was all wrong. A mistake. The police would find his brother on the ship. Of course they would. Danny was stupid enough to be on there in the first place when they should have had a Plan C, something they’d never needed before. But Danny was too confident in his own plan, too cocksure, too brazen. He had ignored almost all of Freddy’s rules – the mantra they had all sworn by when their former leader was still with them. And for what? A stupid bitch who was going to steal all of his money anyway? Luke wished Louise had never entered their lives.

An anger from deep within him rose to his lungs.

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