Black Wolf Rising by Lyle Nicholson

Author:Lyle Nicholson [Nicholson, Lyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995978102
Publisher: Red Cuillin Publishing
Published: 2017-05-15T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Peter Cardinal got into the car’s back seat. Tommy and Stephen were in the front. The car was a twenty-year-old 1976 Chevy Malibu that Peter helped steal from behind Gus’s store. The car was a two tone, two door with mag wheels and housed a big 400 cubic inch V-8 that roared down the road when you hit the gas.

Tommy said it wasn’t stealing as the keys were always in it, so how was that stealing, and besides, Gus drove it in the summer. He wouldn’t miss it until spring.

But Peter knew Gus would see a barren spot with snow all around it where the car had been. Gus would know Peter had taken it. Peter’s heart had sunk the moment they’d got in it and left for the city.

Peter did the bookkeeping for Gus’s store. His work made him proud, gave him satisfaction. It wasn’t much, just add up the figures at the old store at the end of the day and do inventory once a month, but Peter secretly loved it. He’d fallen in love with numbers; they made him feel safe. It removed him from his cousins—he felt like he was his own person at Gus’s place. Like he mattered. Tommy and Stephen were pulling him along; he was always the weaker one, doing whatever they said, as if he had no will of his own.

He didn’t want to be here. He wanted to finish high school, take the required college courses to become a certified general accountant, and then work for a large oil company in the city. Maybe he’d even get transferred overseas. In Dubai or Saudi, he’d be just another brown person. He could disappear.

He felt like disappearing now. He stared out the window, his breath making a fog and blocking his view.

“Did you see her?” Tommy asked.

“Yeah, we saw her. She was with some really big white dude,” Stephen said.

“Did she see you guys?”

“Nah, I don’t think so. What do you think, Peter, you think she saw us?” Stephen asked.

Peter looked up from his fogged window; he barely understood the question. “No . . . I don’t think she saw us,” he finally said.

“Good, ’cause we warriors are on the prowl, we gonna kick that little half-breed’s ass. When they find out she’s disappeared, nobody will fuck with the Cardinal boys. Ain’t that right,” Tommy said.

“Damn right,” Stephen said.

Peter looked out the window. His sigh completely fogged the back window.

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