The Tyndale Code by Patterson Daniel

Author:Patterson, Daniel [Patterson, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Ravenwood Way Publishing
Published: 2015-10-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

A squirming knot was twisting up his insides. Zack was getting that sinking feeling he always got when things were about to go from really, really bad, to worse.

He had no idea how he was going to get out of this.

He sat in a small dark room tied to La Cobra, back to back in metal chairs. Their hands tied behind the chair backs, their feet tied to the metal legs. Then, just for good measure more rope was tied around their waists and chests. Houdini might have been able to find a way out of this, but he couldn't. They were in deep, deep trouble.

"Can I ask you something?" he said to her, tugging uselessly at his bonds.

"We are trussed up like two goats meant for slaughter, Mister Cole. I would expect that if you were going to ask me something, this would be the time to do it."

"Then let me ask you this. Can I ask your name? Your real name?"

He felt her stiffen against his back. "My name?"

"Yeah, you know, something I can call you other than The Cobra?"

She was silent for a long time. He thought maybe he'd offended her somehow. Like her name was a big secret, and everyone in the country knew better than to ask about it.

"Ana," she said, in a small voice like a little girl. "My name is Ana."

"Nice to meet you, Ana." The name rolled off his tongue. It was a lovely name. It made her seem more human. "Now, do you have any idea why your brother lured us here, Ana? I mean, if he wanted us dead he would have done it outside, right?"

Ana remained silent.

They were alone, for the moment. Their captors had forced them into this big empty room, tied them up like this, and then turned the lights off as they left. They hadn't been back yet. Zack estimated that was about twenty minutes ago. He counted six other men in the building as they were escorted to the room. The only thing he knew now that he hadn't known before was the big thug's name: Jorge. The Spanish name for George. He'd almost had to laugh at that. There was the Tiger and the Cobra...and George.

"So your brother's got quite the set of scars."

"Si," she agreed. "He was tortured once. Those scars are a reminder."

That wasn't exactly something you heard every day. Or ever, in Zack's experience. "Who tortured him?"

"It does not matter. He killed them. They are dead. He is alive, branded forever with those stripes. Forever after that, he has been known as El Tigre."

"Hired hit man and gang enforcer?"

"We do what we can to survive in our country, Mister Cole." He heard the not-so-subtle rebuke in her words and knew better than to push it.

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