The Betrayed by Thomas Wood

Author:Thomas Wood [Wood, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BoleynBennett Publishing
Published: 2019-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Suddenly, as if doctor Frankenstein had forced a current of electricity through his body, Jameson sprang into action. For a second, I thought that maybe he was capable of working out in the field and that I had completely misjudged his abilities; when the chips were down, he rose to meet the challenge. Or at least I hoped.

But then I realised he wasn’t springing into action to save us, but that he was actually lurching towards me, an expression of complete aggression scratched into his face. His vision was completely blinkered now, I could see it in his eyes. There was no one else in that room but me and him, Red was no longer part of his consciousness, nor were the sounds of the trucks turning up outside the cottage.

As he came closer to me, the adrenaline surged through my body, my own focus becoming tunnelled and tuning into the face of Robert Jameson. I didn’t care what he was doing right now, or why he was doing it, all the initial feelings that I was being double crossed by the man that I thought I could trust the most, faded into nothing, surplus to the requirements of me fighting for my life.

I held my breath as I waited for his body to connect with mine, but even though I watched him into me, the wind was rapidly knocked out of my lungs, as his shoulder made a firm contact with my ribs. I felt the bruising develop instantly and knew that I would be carrying a dull ache in the region for the next few days at the least.

It was only then that I realised he was screaming, not a victorious cry as he took me to the ground with him, but a more terrifying, primal scream, like he was possessed by the evillest demons in existence.

I almost threw up as we both landed on the floorboards, utterly convinced that they would give in due to the weight that had slammed into them. The only thing stopping the vomit was the fact that I had no oxygen left in my lungs to help bring it up and so, it stayed where it was, in the pit of my stomach, simply burning away at my insides as I wheezed and sucked, trying to bring in as much air as I possibly could.

My pistol flew through the air and clattered into the wall, just beside the window that had been our observation post, quivering slightly as it lost all of its momentum. I was completely powerless now to the dead weight that straddled me, with no weapon other than my own pathetic fists that struggled to hit out as they were crushed by his mass.

We began to tussle around on the floor, like a bear that was trying to devour its struggling prey, and I quickly found myself losing to the man who had seemed more comfortable sat behind a desk, especially as I focused on trying to get air back into my lungs, at the very least to stop the stars from bursting in my eyes.

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