To Rule in Hell - An Action Thriller Novel (Omega Series Book 6) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

It was a seven hundred mile drive. Ten hours, so long as we stuck to the speed limit, and with fifty grand in a hold all in the trunk of a car stolen from a drug dealer, it made sense to stick to the speed limit. We stopped at the first gas station outside Socorro, filled her up and bought food: bread, cheese, ham and chocolate. And then we drove. We took it in turns. Five hour shifts. I took it as far as Sonora while she slept, and from Sonora to Corpus Christi, she drove while I slept.

It was a tedious, exhausting drive. But after the violence and constant threat of the previous days, it was a relief to know that we had total anonymity for the next few hours.

There was practically no traffic, and the endless, straight road under the immense, clear Texan sky was hypnotic. Occasionally a truck would pass on the westbound road. It would appear as a bright light in the distance, slowly swell, then flash past, leaving just silence in the darkened cab, aside from the quiet hum of the engine.

Towns, clusters of houses with sleeping windows and sleeping cars, motels and gas stations, they would all pass in their still pools of dull light, shut down for the dark, nocturnal hours, when only predators and their victims were abroad.

After Sonora I tried to sleep, but it wasn’t easy. I knew that in the morning I would be seeing Marni. I knew that she wanted something from me, and I knew that I no longer wanted to give it to her. I knew I was going to tell her it was all over: with me and Omega, and with me and her. Because a relationship with Marni meant a relationship with Omega. And I couldn’t do that anymore.

Part of my mind told me I should do one more job and give them fair notice. But I had heard the ‘one last job’ refrain too many times from colleagues and comrades, and I knew there was no such thing. I had already done my last job. This was it—I handed the senator over, and I was done. From here, I went home.

Home to Independence. And, maybe, even home to Weston, Kenny and Rosalia. I could visualize Abi there. She would make it a home. She would give that big, old house warmth and joy, and light.

Lights. I opened my eyes and realized I had been sleeping, dreaming. There were bright lights all around me, moving. I saw Cyndi glance over at me and smile. She said, “San Antonio,” and I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

When I opened them again, a blood red sun was leeching into a pale gray sky on the horizon. It was a very flat horizon. I had a pain in my neck, my back hurt and I was hungry. I looked at the clock on the dash and saw it was eight AM. I stretched. My joints crunched.

“We passed San Antonio.

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