The Subway by Dustin Stevens

Author:Dustin Stevens [Stevens, Dustin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Seven

The story was salacious, like equal parts daytime television and Harlan Coben novel. One bit at a time, Talula Davis listened to what was being fed her, unsure if it was the most outlandish tale ever concocted, or just crazy enough to actually be true.

Parts of it were no doubt rooted in actual events. Some of the things just couldn’t be explained otherwise, starting with how he had been presumed dead and including a dozen others along the way.

It was the rest of it, like Tim claiming to be the mystery man that had put Eric Baxter away, that was a bit too much to wrap her head around.

Baxter was a known figure, both on the reservation and in the law enforcement community of the multi-state area. Working with his brother, the duo had set up a network of illegal weapons that stretched across much of the south.

It was the sort of thing everybody was well aware of, the two wearing their reputation like a badge of honor, heroes in the low-end communities that dotted the landscape.

Wherever there were hardscrabble people, folks that had tired of the system, were ready to cash things in and succumb to their vices, the Baxters were only a call away.

For years, they had been the target of numerous local and federal efforts, a list that included even the resources of the reservation.

Touched men like her father, acting Chief of Police before his own untimely death.

Last she’d heard, the entire thing had gone offline in the wake of Eric’s arrest six years before. Plenty of people had openly speculated about where they were or what they were up to, the most common belief being that they were just biding time until his sentence was up, searching for their chance to emerge again.

Only Davis knew better.

Much, much better.

More than one young and aspiring law enforcement agent in the area had spent every free moment digging into them, wanting nothing more than for them to be the rocket they hitched their career to.

And now here was Tim, potentially offering some such story.

If any of it could be believed.

Letting him get to the end of the story, Davis nodded in silence, fighting to keep her visage free of expression, fitting everything he’d just shared against what she already knew.

It was seated in that position, waiting for him to add the final bits to his tale, to complete what he’d already begun, answer her question about his next move, that she first spotted it.

With a simple glance to the rearview mirror, she saw the oversized pickup rumble into view. Starting as nothing more than a blurred line on the horizon, rising up out of the heat waves swaying above the pavement, she watched as it grew closer.

Fast.

Much too fast for a road as small as the one they were parked on.

Feeling her nerves tighten, she extended her right hand from her thigh to the gear shift between them, alternating glances between Tim and the mirror.

For his part, he

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