Betrayed in the Keys by Matthew Rief

Author:Matthew Rief [Rief, Matthew & Rief, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

Gulf of Mexico

0200

I woke up in a seated position in a dimly lit room. I tried to move my arms but heard rattling and found that they were handcuffed to a metal pipe behind my back. My mouth was dry, my head pounded, and my vision was still blurry as I scanned around the room. I couldn’t make out much in the darkness. A long hangar of lifejackets to my right, three mountain bikes, a few inflatable workout balls, and a row of fishing rods secured overhead.

As my senses returned, I felt the ground rock slowly from side to side and heard the distant hum of an engine. I’m on a yacht, I thought as I continued to listen and look around.

“How in the hell did this happen?” I whispered to myself as my mind played back as much as I could remember from the moments before I’d blacked out.

A sudden and powerful rage overtook me as I remembered the image of Ben’s face hovering over mine, his lips contorted into a cocky smile as I lost consciousness. What had he done? Who had he handed me over to, and where in the hell were they taking me?

I asked the questions in my mind, but I already knew a few of the answers. Even before a big, muscular dark-skinned guy came inside and told me to stand my ass up, I knew exactly who I was dealing with. But the tattoo of two snakes around his left wrist solidified it.

Two more guys entered, then held me down as they removed one of the handcuffs, then clicked it back on, freeing me from the pipe. One of the guys had long jet-black hair that he kept braided. He was overweight and looked at me like I was scum he’d just found stuck under his boot.

The big guy who’d first entered just looked tired. He had a completely shaved head and a tattoo around his left eye. I didn’t get a good look at the third guy, but he looked big as well. The first guy’s muscles bulged out of his tee shirt as he led the way, holding a pistol in one hand as he told me to move it.

They led me down a well-lit hallway, and as we passed the first door, I heard the faint sound of two women talking on the other side. The fat guy pushed me hard.

“Keep moving!” he barked, and we continued down to the end of the hallway, up a set of stairs, and into a dark room.

They grabbed a second pair of handcuffs, cuffed me to the metal support of a table and sat me down onto a leather office chair. The three men stood beside me, and we waited a few minutes before another group entered and shut the door behind them. They said a few muffled words to each other that I couldn’t understand, then turned on a massive flat-screen on the other side of the room.

The sudden burst of brightness

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