The Friday Cage by Diamond Andrew

Author:Diamond, Andrew [Diamond, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, thriller, Crime
ISBN: 9781734139211
Amazon: B08963WV8C
Goodreads: 53697418
Publisher: Stolen Time Press
Published: 2020-07-14T07:00:00+00:00

21

Lincoln proved to be quite a talker. On the drive to Frederick she learned more about him than she cared to know. He hadn’t always weighed three hundred and twenty pounds, a fact he repeated no fewer than four times. In his fighting days in Iraq, he weighed two thirty-five. He wasn’t no hero but he wasn’t no slacker either. He woulda done a second tour if he hadn’t injured hisself getting throwed from the back of a truck, and it wasn’t even in combat, so it didn’t count toward a purple heart.

Some of his friends came back all busted up and had good reason to be depressed, but old Lincoln was doing pretty well, except for not being able to get around so fast, and not being able to do some of the plumbing work he used to do, and crawlspaces was a problem now, and once he had to be dragged out of one because his hip locked up and it took three guys to haul him outta there and I tell you that was humiliating.

He hired an assistant who was skinny and nimble like a monkey to get into the tight spaces, but then customers started calling the assistant to do the work and leaving him out of it, and what kind of thanks was that for giving a man a job?

Old Lincoln wound up sitting around the house half the time and there wasn’t nothing to do but eat and wait for someone to call about a busted pipe, so he got fat as hell and his wife made him sleep on the couch on account of his snoring.

It’s a slow slide down that hill to where the only joy in life is another cheesesteak or two whole pizzas, he told her, and you gotta be on the lookout for the little things you start letting go, because you let go of them and pretty soon you let go of the big ones too. One day you wake up three hundred and twenty pounds and your wife is telling you to get out and you’re standing there wondering what the hell happened.

Claire thought back to what Lincoln had said earlier, that he wished she hadn’t mentioned the name of the person who had hired him, because if the bad guys caught him, they could beat it out of him. The way this guy blabbered, they wouldn’t have to do much beating. Just sit him in a chair and wait five minutes.

Now he wasn’t complaining about the state of his life, no sir, because he rekkonized he was responsible for his own damn self, and he’d patch things up with his wife, and he’d lose the weight because he was eating healthy now. Subway—that was the ticket to shedding the pounds—only it didn’t work when you ate twelve of ’em a day, but he already had a plan to get that under control, and it was dead simple. Eat less.

Near Gaithersburg, he pulled to the side of the highway and cut the engine.

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