The Recruit: Book Two by Elizabeth Kelly

Author:Elizabeth Kelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Hannah?” Selena cried out with pain as Hannah hooked her hands into her armpits and dragged her away from the dump truck.

“I’m sorry, honey.” Hannah puffed. “Hang on. We’re almost there.” She dragged her for another twenty feet before stopping and taking Selena’s sweater off. She folded it and pressed it against the cut on her stomach.

“Hold this tightly. C’mon, Selena.” She coaxed. “Press this nice and tight against your stomach, honey.”

Selena did as she asked, watching as Hannah ran back to Jeremy’s body. She knelt beside him, sweeping his hair back from his face, closing his eyes and kissing his mouth gently before standing and, muscles straining, dragged him closer to the dump truck.

She picked his gun up from the ground, shoving it distractedly into the back of her pants before she ran to the back of the truck and climbed up the side of it. She peered into the bed of it, cursing lightly before dropping to the ground. She ran to the cab and pulled hopefully on the driver’s door. It opened and she disappeared inside. There was a muffled shout of triumph and she reappeared with a small jerry can in her hand.

Selena squinted in the growing darkness. Her body was beginning to shake and she could feel darkness creeping over her vision.

“Hannah?” She called weakly. She collapsed on to her back, staring up at the rapidly darkening sky, and took deep breaths as her eyes closed.

“Selena?” Hannah’s worried face appeared above her. “Stay with me!” There was a sharp pain on the side of her face as Hannah slapped her and Selena blinked rapidly.

“Hannah, what – “

“Hang on, Selena. Just a few more minutes, okay?”

“Okay.” Selena nodded, staring at the red jerry can in Hannah’s hand.

“What are you doing?”

“I’ll tell you in a minute.”

She disappeared again and after a moment, the smell of gasoline drifted to Selena. She slapped herself briskly several times across the face and then forced herself into a sitting position, crying out at the pain.

Hannah paused and looked back at her. “Are you okay?”

Selena stared at her with wide eyes. “What are you doing?”

Hannah continued to splash gas around Jeremy’s body and the dump truck. She set the can down and reached into Jeremy’s pocket, pulling out the package of matches. She slipped them into her own pocket and reached for the gas can again. When she poured gas directly over Jeremy’s dead body, Selena cried out with shock.

“Hannah, stop it!”

Hannah ignored her and finished emptying the gas can. She backed away and pulled the pack of matches from her pocket.

“Close your eyes, Selena.” She instructed. “Don’t watch this.”

Selena, crying weakly, closed her eyes as Hannah lit one of the matches. She held it for a moment, watching the small flickering flame dance closer to her fingers before she tossed it at the pool of gasoline around Jeremy’s body.

It lit with a soft “fwump” and she turned and ran back to Selena as Jeremy’s body began to burn and the flames licked at the underside of the dump truck.

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