When Shadows Speak: A Small Town Riveting Kidnapping Mystery Thriller by Valentean Vincent

Author:Valentean, Vincent [Valentean, Vincent ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

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E ve had hung up on him a moment later when, in the background, Jack could hear someone calling out to her, telling her that they needed to ask her some questions. He immediately recognized the tone as a law enforcement officer.

That was good. At least she was safe. They would be able to protect her, stop Troy from coming after her again. Or, at least, he hoped they would.

Jack spent the next twenty minutes lying on his side, knees pulled to his chest, bitterly weeping into the hardwood floor. In that moment, he just wanted to die. He desperately wished he’d never come back. He had been selfish in wanting to reestablish himself in his daughter’s life. He should have known that, eventually, one of these maniacs was going to come after him.

Even if Troy had actually been dead, how long would it have taken for one of the others to pick up where he had left off? And there had been so many others.

A life he had once thought to be over was coming back to haunt him. His duty, his mission in life—he had thought the work he did was essential. He had always believed that the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few or the one. He had put the country and the millions of people who lived within it above himself always.

He had sacrificed his family, he had sacrificed his soul, he had thrown his morality into the fires of hell, and he had condemned himself as the ultimate sinner. A murderer. A butcher.

He knew that when shooting your way through a sweatshop staffed entirely by slave labor in search of the head of a terrorist ring who is planning to set off a dirty bomb in the heart of Los Angeles, you told yourself that what you were doing was justified. You told yourself that some collateral damage was necessary. But Jack had made a fatal mistake. All of these sacrifices meant that the man he once was, the man he wished he could be again, no longer existed.

He was a damned spirit trying to inhabit a corpse.

Every few seconds, his thoughts would flash from horrific acts of violence, of murder and torture that he had brought down on those his government told him were wicked to the sweet, smiling, cherubic face of a girl who had called him her hero. A little girl who looked at him like he was the bravest, most-important man on Earth. A little girl who loved him to the moon…

This continued on in an endless cycle of pain and misery, repeating over and over again as though his own mind were trying to punish him for his actions.

After twenty minutes had passed, the cold, chilling numbness began to climb his extremities. He wondered if this was what death felt like. That thought process took him to a deep, dark place within his heart. As Jack Stone delved into those depths, into the very source of his misdeeds and sins, he found himself feeling very alone.

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