Endurance by Jack Kilborn & J.A. Konrath

Author:Jack Kilborn & J.A. Konrath [Kilborn, Jack & Konrath, J.A.]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2010-06-16T22:00:00+00:00

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Felix stared out the rear window of the police cruiser. A tow truck hauling a Corvette passed them going in the opposite direction. It was the only other vehicle he’d seen in the last thirty minutes.

“Where are you taking us?” Cam asked the Sheriff.

He’d asked that same question at least a dozen times. The Sheriff had yet to answer.

Felix wondered what was happening. Was this going to be some sort of backwoods justice? Take them deep into the woods and beat the shit out of them?

No. The Sheriff would have done it already. Why drive for this long? There were plenty of woods around here where no one would here the screams.

So what does he want?

Felix’s mind switched back to Maria. His brief elation that she was still alive had turned into a deep-rooted, sick feeling.

They’re raping and bleeding her. They’ve been doing this for a whole year.

The enormity of the horror she had endured made Felix want to scream.

I have to save her. I have to. I can’t let them do this to her for one more day.

But alongside the outrage and the pain, Felix felt a twinge of something shameful. Something he had a hard time facing.

Is she even Maria anymore?

He couldn’t shake the image of her, gaunt and gibbering, her mind completely fried because of her ordeal.

What if, when I finally find her, she’s a vegetable? What if she’s so traumatized she can no longer take care of herself.

Felix clenched his jaw.

Then I learn to change diapers.

I love her. I’m going to save her. Both her body and her mind.

But Felix didn’t see how he was going to save anybody, handcuffed in a squad car being taken someplace other than the police station.

He glanced at Cam. The younger man didn’t seem scared. If anything, he seemed hyper.

Not for the first time, Felix questioned whether bringing Cam along was the right decision. On one hand, Cam loved Maria just as much as he did. To leave him languish unjustly in a psychiatric institution was wrong, especially when Felix needed help looking for his sister.

On the other hand, Cam had been in the institution for a reason.

For ninety-five percent of the time, Cam seemed entirely normal. But every so often Felix would catch him talking to himself, and saying some pretty bizarre shit. And several times over the last few months, Cam seemed to zone out completely, even when Felix was yelling in his face.

Then again, if I had his history, maybe I’d zone out too.

Still, the enthusiasm he showed while breaking John’s fingers was definitely not normal. Willingly hurting another human being—even if that person was a kidnapper and a rapist—was really dark stuff.

“We’ll be okay,” Felix said, more to reassure himself than Cam.

“I don’t think so,” Cam said. “I think he’s taking us somewhere to kill us.”

The matter-of-fact way Cam said it was chilling.

“He’s a police officer. He won’t do that.”

“He didn’t call it in,” Cam said. “Didn’t report back.”

“It’s a small town. There’s no one to report to.

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