The Santini Vendetta by Christopher Fox

Author:Christopher Fox [Fox, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780995008946
Google: 6f5etgEACAAJ
Amazon: B07C19RLZJ
Barnesnoble: B07C19RLZJ
Publisher: Christopher Fox
Published: 2018-04-05T23:00:00+00:00

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Alberto's mother, Carmen, sat despondent in the small room. It looked like a bedroom and had a single bed, a chair with a padded seat and a small chest of drawers. There was no window, and she presumed she was in a basement. The only illumination came from a single curly-que bulb dangling from the centre of the ceiling with a pull cord to turn it on and off. She barely remembered the abduction—dragged from her home after being ousted from her bed.

“Pack a suitcase,” the man had said, “You’re going on a trip–and pack warm.”

Her question asking where they were going met with a null response. Because she lived in Costa Rica most of her life, except for the few years living in Chicago with her family, she really had no need for warm clothing. She rustled up a sweater and coat she hadn’t worn for years, plus a pair of ankle boots and some socks.

Hustling her out of the door to a waiting car they drove to the airport, ushering her up the steps of a private jet. It was only when the plane took off that she realized that in her hurry to pack, she had thrown in some make-up but forgot her medication. When first returning from Panama after the stem-cell implants, Alberto had arranged for a private nurse to attend to her and give the injections necessary to stop her antibodies from rejecting the stem cells until they had a chance to develop naturally within her body.

She tried to rest for the five hours on the plane, but sleep evaded her. Her mind tried to process what was happening, and she knew it was something to do with the recent skirmish her son had with the Santini family. She tried to talk him out of it when he outlined his plan to get restitution for the killing of his father, but she knew it fell on deaf ears. Alberto would not forget the experience of seeing his papa shot down in front of him and often vowed revenge. She thought he had put it out of his mind, but the need for money when she got sick reignited the reprisal thoughts.

The plane landing in Chicago confirmed her fears; that the Santinis had abducted her. She shivered from the cold when she stepped from the plane, wrapping her arms around herself as they led her to an awaiting limousine. The trunk was open and her abductor reached for the suitcase and threw it into the trunk. He then unceremoniously propelled her into the trunk after it. She hit her head on the suitcase and suffered a blow to the leg as it hit the open edge of the trunk.

“Make a sound and you’ll never see your son again,” he said as he slammed the lid down, the last few centimetres being pulled closed by the soft-close mechanism. It would not be possible to get her through customs and they rarely, if ever, asked to check the trunk while leaving the private terminal.

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