The Nightmare Feast (Another Kingdom) by Andrew Klavan

Author:Andrew Klavan [Klavan, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2020-03-02T23:00:00+00:00

THE COPS SHOWED up fast, really fast, as if they were already on the way before I called. By the time I slipped behind the wheel of the Passat, I could hear the sirens closing in. I didn’t think I’d have time to get off the property before they arrived, so I drove back around the bend of the dirt road to the orchard. Then I turned off the road and rolled the Volks into the lines of flame-colored trees. I pulled up close to where two of the trees were bent low and pressed together, like two red-haired girls sharing a secret. Now my car was hidden by their hanging branches. I switched off the engine and sat there, waiting for the cops, trying to think the situation through.

My earlier emotional reaction had faded now. I felt strangely calm. Not sure why exactly. Maybe anything was better than being in Curtin’s mansion in Edgimond with the monster after me. Or maybe I was just so depressed about my mother and father, I didn’t care what happened next. I don’t know. Anyway, I was calm, and I sat there, waiting, thinking about what had just happened.

Here’s how I had things figured out so far.

Jason Broadstreet had been part of Serge Orosgo’s worldwide Orosgo Age conspiracy, whatever it was. He had been drawn in as a young man after Orosgo helped him get rich. But then he started to have doubts about the enterprise. Somehow he saw one of Riley’s loony videos online. He saw past all her craziness—the crap about the aliens and the Illuminati and so forth—and he recognized that Riley was onto something, that she knew about the real conspiracy. How did she know? It must’ve been because she’d heard my parents and my brother discussing it when she was climbing around inside the walls of the house, when she was sitting at that juncture where all the house’s voices came together. The truth about my parents—the truth that I had denied to myself as I escaped into movie-making fantasy—had driven Riley half-insane. But deep down inside her insanity, she still knew the truth.

Broadstreet wanted out of the conspiracy, but he was afraid if he turned against Orosgo, Orosgo would have him killed. So he began feeding Riley information for her videos, hoping someone would see them and catch on. He knew he was taking a big risk. He surrounded himself with security men to keep himself safe. But surprise, surprise, Orosgo got suspicious. He bought off the security men. Now, instead of standing guard over Broadstreet, they were watching him on Orosgo’s behalf.

I didn’t know how it ended. Maybe they’d overheard him talking to me on the phone or maybe Orosgo just got worried I was getting too close to the truth. In any case, Orosgo gave the command and the security men transformed into assassins. They strung Broadstreet up and searched the place—although they didn’t have to search much, since they’d been in the house for a while and knew what was there.

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