Killer Thrillers Box Set: 3 Techno-Thriller, Action/Adventure Science Fiction Thrillers

Author:Nick Thacker [Thacker, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2015-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27

“REESE, WILL YOU PLEASE TALK to me?”

The woman had been pleading with him for an hour. He had barely spoken, but she wouldn’t let him be.

Reese was still in the room, still sitting on the bed. He’d realized after almost a day that this was, essentially, a jail cell. But they hadn’t hurt him. The woman—Sylvia, she’d said—just kept coming in every few hours, sometimes giving him food, and always trying to get him to talk more.

“Can you tell me about your dad?”

He didn’t want to talk to her or anyone. He’d cried, and now he felt like he couldn’t cry anymore. He still missed his family, of course, but he was smart enough to realize that they weren’t trying to hurt him.They just needed him for something.

“What does your dad do for a living, Reese?”

She already knew the answer. He was sure of it. That was just it. She was treating him like he was a child. He was twelve.

She obviously had no idea how to talk to kids, and so she took the approach of trying to trick him into thinking she was gentle, on his side.

He wasn’t an idiot.

He’d answered a few questions Sylvia asked him during the three previous visits, but he mainly just stared up at the ceiling until she left him alone.

Something about it all was weird, though. He’d seen some movies and TV shows and knew how people in this role were usually treated. He knew they were kept somewhere no one could find them until the people got what they wanted, and he knew they would quickly lose patience.

Maybe it was because this wasn’t a movie, but Sylvia hadn’t lost her patience yet. She just kept going on and on in that high-pitched annoying voice, and when she finally would realize that he didn’t want to talk to her, she’d just sit there for a few minutes and then leave.

It was almost humorous to him. The lady wasn’t very good at this prisoner stuff.

He was getting annoyed with her and her voice and her constant questions. He wanted her to leave. He wanted to see his mom.

“Sylvia,” he said. He glanced over quickly to see the reaction on her face. It was first time he’d used her name, and the first time he’d addressed her directly rather than just answer her question. He thought her eyes were going to fall out of her head they were so big. “Why am I here?”

She shifted in the chair, but didn’t answer.

“Why did you take me?”

“Now, Reese, I didn’t take—”

“I know. But you haven’t let me leave. So you basically took me,” he said.

“No, I just want to help you.”

“Then let me leave.” He considered getting up and walking to the locked door. What would she do? Did she even know what she’d do?

He decided to wait. “Sylvia, how come you won’t let me leave? Is someone telling you what to do?”

He watched her face. Her expression hardened just barely, then slackened again. “No,” she said.

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