Broken Boys: (The Extractor) by Sellers L.J

Author:Sellers, L.J. [Sellers, L.J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: mystery, thriller, crime fiction, police procedural, detective,
ISBN: 9780998793023
Publisher: Spellbinder Press
Published: 2017-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

At home, Rox checked her Yahoo account and found four more messages. Three were in response to her Craigslist ad and none were helpful. One pervert offered to make her Ridge Rock, whatever the hell that meant. The fourth email came from someone who’d seen her flyer at the YMCA. She read the long note from PartyBoyHunter: My friend saw your message on the board and told me to contact you. The Ridgeline camps are hell on earth, and you SHOULD NOT send your kid there. My cousin got shipped to the camp in Nevada that was supposed to make him not gay, and he killed himself while he was there. By drinking poison!!! Last summer, my dad forced me into the wildernesses bullshit program near Sun Ridge. I escaped twice, but the first time a local cop picked me up and took me back. By the time I got out again, I’d lost 20 pounds and now my lower back is fucked up from carrying heavy shit uphill all day. They treated me like a pack mule. Not all the kids had it that bad, but I’m only 17 and I have nightmares all the time. I’m somewhere safe now and my dad can’t find me. DO NOT send your son to Ridgeline or he will hate you forever.

Her body had tensed while reading the email, so Rox tried to make herself relax. But her fists were still clenched, and she had to push back from the desk. Why were these places even legal? Why didn’t they get sued out of business? Because parents signed airtight contracts and felt guilty for their part in the whole thing. Local law enforcement obviously protected the camps. Rox hurried to the kitchen for a beer, then sat down to read the message again. Where the hell was Sun Ridge? She googled Sun Ridge Nevada first, but no valid links came up. She tried Sun Ridge Oregon and landed on the town’s website. The map showed a location south of Bend. A five- or six-hour drive but still a hell of a lot closer than Nevada.

Rox sat back in her chair and took a long, cold drink of beer. The good news was that Josh was likely still in the state, somewhere around Sun Ridge. But finding and extracting him would be challenging. Central Oregon had thousands of acres of wilderness, and the base could be anywhere.

She hit reply and sent Hunter a message: Thank you for contacting me! I’m not planning to send my kid to Ridgeline. In fact, I’m a P.I. and I’m trying to rescue a young man who doesn’t want to be there. So I need to know exactly where the camp is. Please get back to me as soon as possible with as much information as you can. Or call instead, if that’s easier. She signed it Karina and left her work phone number.

She gave herself a fifty-fifty chance of hearing back from him. Assuming HunterBoy really was male.

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