The Disappearance by Little Bentley

Author:Little, Bentley [Little, Bentley]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2010-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

An address.

They had nothing else to show for their long interrogation, for all of their questions and threats, and though they’d gotten exactly what Gary had wanted—the specific location where Joan was being held—the lack of context unnerved him. For Ape Arms gave up the address almost instantly, with a slight, mysterious Gioconda smile, as though he knew of some secret reason why Gary would never reach the place. But after that he would say nothing else, not who he was, not who would be at that location, not why Joan had been taken, not why Kara was missing, not why Gary himself was being targeted. His companion just kept crying.

Gary looked down at the address in his hand.

Joan was in Bitterweed, Texas.

Texas. That was far away, but Gary remembered the Lone Star license plate of the car his abductors had driven, and it was one of the reasons he believed the information to be true. The fact that it was given so freely made him uneasy, though, and while he intended to head out immediately to find Joan, he was worried that he might be walking into a trap.

The two men they’d captured stood before him, unmoving. It was still hard for Gary not to think of them as Outsiders, but if there was any other reliable information they’d obtained during their exhaustive questioning, it was that these two were not Outsiders. The very idea seemed to enrage them, and that was the only point on which they would argue or engage, although Gary and his crew were not sophisticated enough interrogators to be able to use that as leverage to pry more information out of them.

But if they weren’t Outsiders, who was?

That was only one of a hundred questions for which he had no answer. He had the address, though, and once Joan was back safe and sound, then he would have the luxury of trying to figure out what was going on.

Reyn sidled up next to him. “What’s the plan?” his friend asked, nodding toward the captives.

“We’ll have the film society take them out.”

Reyn stared at him.

Gary smiled weakly. “Joke.” He looked from the tall one to the short one. What was to be done with them? If they turned the men in to the police, they risked being arrested themselves. Detaining the men in the way that they had was not immediately obvious as self-defense, and while he might be able to make a case that it was, he would doubtlessly have to do so in court. There wasn’t time for that.

On the other hand, if they let the men go, the two of them would probably contact their cohorts immediately and Joan would be taken away and hidden somewhere out of reach.

That was something that could not be risked.

Gary realized all of a sudden that Ape Arms was grinning at him, and he looked away with an involuntary shiver. Something about that smile was extremely disconcerting, and he could tell by the reactions of those around him that they found it unnerving as well.

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