Grave 06-End Game by John Gilstrap

Author:John Gilstrap [Gilstrap, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, General
ISBN: 9780786030217
Google: h5AgnwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0786030216
Barnesnoble: 0786030216
Goodreads: 18596481
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 2014-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

The lady on the other side of the table had a nice smile, but hard eyes. Graham didn’t trust her. In fact, as he sat there, sipping his Coke and eating his Twix bar, he realized that he didn’t trust anyone anymore. They sat in a yellow-brown concrete block room, where the only furnishings were a beat-up steel table and two chairs that were both bolted to the floor.

After being beaten up by the cops who arrested him, he’d been put in a car and driven to this building that he assumed was a jail. For a long time, he’d just sat here by himself. They’d taken the cuffs off his wrists, and they hadn’t said anything about walking around, but there was nowhere to walk, nothing to do.

It was sort of a relief to have another person in the room. At least she was willing to talk—more than he could say about every cop in the building, who pretended that he wasn’t even there. She wasn’t particularly friendly—in fact, she seemed intent on being the opposite of friendly—but at least she was another heartbeat in the room.

“I asked you if you know why you’re here.” The lady said her name was Peggy, but Graham didn’t believe her.

“Because the police brought me here,” he said. It was a violation of the say-nothing rule that Jolaine had sworn him to, but he’d learned the hard way that saying nothing pissed people off way more than saying something that sounded like an answer, but really was not.

“And why do you think that happened?” Peggy asked.

“I don’t know.”

“Take a guess.”

Graham hesitated, worried what the reaction might be, then decided to roll the dice. “Because they had nothing better to do tonight?”

Peggy’s cold eyes hardened even more. “Do you think this is a funny time?”

“No,” Graham said. Finally, a chance to be 100 percent truthful. “I think this is a scary time, and I think you are a scary lady.”

She seemed to enjoy that. “Really.” She said the word as a statement, not as a question. “Why do you think I’m scary?”

Graham hesitated. Then he said nothing.

“Come on, Graham. You can answer. What makes you think that I am scary?”

He hesitated again. He sensed that Peggy was trying to trap him into saying the wrong thing, and that the wrong thing would get somebody hurt. At this point, silence was his most loyal ally.

Twenty seconds passed. “Graham, you realize you’re in custody, right? You realize that I control your future. That Twix bar could be the last bit of food you get for the next two weeks.”

“There,” he said. “You just threatened to starve me. That’s what makes you scary. I think you want something from me, and I think you want that something more than you care whether I’m dead or alive.”

He’d intended that to be startling, but Peggy took it in stride. In fact, she might have looked pleased. “Tell me what has happened over the past couple of days.”

“You go first,” Graham said.

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