Broken Glass by Matt James

Author:Matt James [James, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The bullet ripped into the hooded creep’s back, knocking him to the floor. The girl he was escorting froze in shock before turning around. When she saw Willy, likewise in a hazmat suit, her face went from one of surprise to one of confusion.

“Get his keys!” Willy yelled. “Pass them around and get the hell out of here!”

No one moved. Growling at the inactivity of the captives, Willy tore away her protective covering, revealing herself. Seeing that she wasn’t one of their “masters,” the freed woman dove for the dead man’s keys and did as Willy said. One by one, each of the workers unlocked themselves.

They all looked malnourished and exhausted, and Willy didn’t have time to ask them all why they were there. She just walked forward and held out the elevator’s remote. The young girl, maybe sixteen years of age, took it and nodded to Willy.

“Gracias.”

Willy smiled her reply but got down to business. “Maria Flores?” The girl in front of her shook her head no. Willy asked the question louder. “Maria Flores?”

“There!” Someone near the rear of the room yelled, pointing at the set of doors across the space. The speaker had a finger extended toward the entry the guy had used earlier. “There!”

Biting her lip, Willy contemplated her next move. Knowing someone could come to check on them at any moment, she pointed at the girl standing before her.

“No one gets left behind.”

She nodded quickly and started shouting at the freed women to get moving.

“Oh,” Willy added, “and call the police as soon as you can.”

She nodded again.

Willy rushed forward, stopping just outside the double doors. She spun and found the nearest girl. “Lock the doors behind me.”

The girl was about to argue, but Willy placed a reassuring hand on her. “Don’t worry,” she winked, “I’ll be fine.”

Not buying into Willy’s overconfident demeanor, the young girl still looked worried. But, she did as Willy said and locked the door behind Willy. Deeper into the underground facility, Willy found what she was looking for. The next room was an ultramodern science lab, probably where they developed the drugs in play. The room behind her was a large-scale manufacturing plant.

Now to find Maria.

The room itself was considerably smaller than the last one, about the size of a large meeting room. At thirty-by-thirty, Willy searched the space without having to move an inch. Thankfully, there was no one inside.

A whimpering sound brought her attention to a surgical table at the rear of the room, deeper into the shadows. Gun up, Willy silently stalked forward and almost wept at what she saw. It was Valdez, the girl that had been taken when she had first entered the sweatshop. She had been strapped to a table like a lab rat, waiting to be tested on, from what Willy could tell. The syringes and other instruments next to her were a dead giveaway.

“Lie still,” Willy said, “I’m here to help.”

She quickly set the girl free and helped her back to the main set of double doors.

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