Time to Hide by John Gilstrap

Author:John Gilstrap [Gilstrap, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

April 11

He told! I don’t believe it! Derek ratted out the Posse. He told Georgen. You’re supposed to get transferred out if you rat out an inmate, but Georgen put him back into GP. Derek is terrified. When the Posse finds out, he’s dead.

Christ, how could he have been so stupid? Everybody knows. Derek’s begging Georgen for isolation, but I don’t think he’s going to give it to him. Georgen’s having too much fun to give it to him.

Chapter Six

Warren turned on the overhead light and smacked Carter’s shoulder hard enough to hurt. “Carter, wake up. We’ve got a lead.”

Carter didn’t even know that he’d drifted off. He came awake groggy and confused. “What? Where?” He checked his watch. 3:04 A.M.

“The Ritz Carlton at Mason’s Corner.” Carter’s eyes cleared enough to see that Warren was wearing boxer shorts and a Nike T-shirt. “I just got the call from a patrol unit who got a hit off the picture we sent around.”

“Nicki is there?” Carter asked. It seemed almost too simple.

“We’re leaving in two minutes to find out.”

* * *

Brad needed a drink. And a cold shower. Jesus, what had he been thinking? He never should have moved so far so quickly. But after such a long stretch without being close to a woman, nature was a tough beast to tame. He thought about that as he re-dressed in his khakis and Polo shirt, being particularly careful as he zipped his trousers.

He hated the look he saw in her face after he walked into the bathroom. At first, it was shock—he’d expected that—but then it looked like fear, and that was when he should have left her alone. He’d thought that she would get a kick out of seeing him parade naked in front of her. In their e-mails, she’d told him how she used to fantasize about that when she was watching him mow the lawn.

A part of him wondered if it had been a mistake to tell her so much about his past. Maybe he should have made something up that wouldn’t have made him look like such a criminal.

No, he decided, that would have been a mistake. There’d been too many lies in his life, told by too many people, and he had way too many sins on his soul as it was.

When Brad saw that clerk in the gas station fall with a bullet through his head, he knew that he’d crossed a line from which there was no return. He understood that every good thing he’d ever done in his life had become meaningless. It had all been wiped out at a muzzle velocity of a thousand feet per second. As he watched the lights go out in that kid’s eyes, he realized that he really did care.

And because of what he’d done, nobody would ever care back.

Except for Nicki Janssen. She was the single exception. Back when he was in prison, lying on his bunk at night, listening to the sounds of men snoring and fighting and jerking off, he used to imagine what Nicki would look like as the years passed.

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