The Road To Deliverance: An Evan Buckley Crime Thriller (Evan Buckley Thrillers Book 7) by James Harper

Author:James Harper [Harper, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

SARAH JERKED UPRIGHT. Somebody was shaking her.

‘We’re almost there.’

Her head snapped around. It all came back with a bang.

‘What?’

‘You fell asleep. One minute you were awake, the next minute, you’re out of it. I let you sleep.’

She blinked a couple times, shook her head. Outside dark thunderclouds hung low and heavy overhead, made it feel later than it was. She’d been asleep all afternoon. The remnants of a dream clung to her, a dream she didn’t want to think about. It wasn’t like all the other strange dreams she’d been having lately. It was much worse. She’d delivered Jay into the hands of the men who held him as Cole had insinuated. And then they’d rewarded her for being such a loyal member of the gang, handed her the knife.

Go ahead, make the first cut. You know where.

‘Sorry.’

‘It’s okay. You needed it. It’s your body reacting to the stress.’

But it wasn’t okay.

Her mouth was dry, a sour taste coating her tongue. She licked her lips. She remembered now, understood why her pulse was racing, her chest so tight. And it wasn’t because of the dream. Because that wasn’t real.

This was.

Getting more real by the second.

‘You dozed off as I asked you what you were doing asleep in the back of your car.’

The question she’d been dreading. The one she knew he’d ask sooner or later. How do you tell someone you were sleeping off the effects of drinking with the man he’s trying to save from the mess he blames you for?

You don’t.

You avoid it at all costs until you get caught in a lie. Then you curl up and die.

‘I’d had too much to drink. I was trying to sleep it off.’ She looked down at her dirty, rumpled clothes. ‘I bet you’re thinking I look like the sort of person who sleeps in their car all of the time.’

‘No. I was thinking you weren’t very far from where I was supposed to meet Jay.’

The sudden, randomness of the comment stole the words out of her mouth. Her throat clamped shut, choked off her breath. Stopped the words from coming, even if her heart hadn’t been in the way, right there in her mouth.

‘You okay?’

She nodded. A small squeak popped out.

‘Cole.’

Something in her voice made his head snap around. Her resolve weakened and ebbed away. She clung to it, forced the words out, staring at the hollow-eyed reflection in the window.

‘It was me.’

‘Say that—’

‘I was the girl in the bar. With Jay.’

He made a choking noise in the back of his throat as if he had the mother of all fishbones stuck in it.

‘I don’t believe it.’

‘Well it’s true. None of that stuff happened anyway. I did not go into the restrooms with him. What? You think he was screwing me up against the wall? And some guy asked me his name when I was on my way out, that’s all. I didn’t even know it then.’

‘Why didn’t you say something?’

‘What? After you’ve not shut up about how

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