The Shadow Cell: A Chilling Psychological Thriller (Wolf Lake Thriller Book 6) by Dan Padavona

Author:Dan Padavona [Padavona, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2021-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Traffic clogged the thoroughfare between Kane Grove University and the highway. Justice Thorin drummed his fingers on the steering wheel as the air conditioner blasted against his face. The sun was a blowtorch at dinnertime, heat waves rippling off the pavement like a strange dream sequence. The light turned green, and still the traffic didn’t budge.

He pressed his horn. The damn ramp to the highway lay a hundred feet to his right. He was tempted to swing the Tesla onto the shoulder and drive around everyone, but there was a traffic camera at the light. If bored, he could watch live footage of the intersection over the internet.

When the light cycled again, the glut unclogged. A woman in the left lane signaled her intent to merge. Tough luck. He was here first. Thorin gave her a few feet of space, but when she started to merge, he punched the gas and blew past her. The driver, an Asian woman wearing sunglasses, honked her horn and lifted her middle finger. Blood boiling, he glared at her through the mirror, their eyes hidden behind sunglasses, yet interminably locked. He grinned when she trailed him onto the entrance ramp, and when they reached the highway, he slowed to a crawl and forced her to pass. She laid heavy on the horn as she flew by.

He followed her.

A mile up the highway, he pushed the Tesla to eighty and drove inches from her bumper. He savored the alarm on her face, sensed her rising anxiety like ozone before a storm. At the next exit, she turned off. He clung to her bumper.

It occurred to him how easy it would be to find where she lived and take her. He’d never captured anyone out of anger. Undefinable needs had always provoked him. Now he only wanted to torture, maim, and tear the woman to shreds with his hands. To hell with her for challenging him.

A red light stopped them at the bottom of the ramp. His grille almost kissed the car’s bumper. She glanced at him in the mirror and averted her eyes. A frightened mouse cornered by a feral cat.

Through the unfamiliar village—some rundown burg he’d passed a thousand times on the highway without a second thought—he followed her car. Past the shopping plaza and hair salon. Through the restaurant district to the suburbs. Twice, she took sharp turns without signaling to shake him. He remained inches behind with a cruel smile on his lips.

The woman pulled into a driveway beside a two-story duplex. Two men leaned on the porch rail and nursed beer cans. He doubted the woman lived here. In her panic, she’d sought help from complete strangers. He gave a friendly toot of his horn as he motored past.

Thorin circled the neighborhood and found his way back to the highway. His pulse eased as he put the unknown town behind him. He assumed the woman worked in Kane Grove. The possibility she worked at the university pushed energy through his body. How he’d love to encounter her again.

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