Madness (Asher Benson #2) by Jason Brant

Author:Jason Brant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: telepath, suspense thrillers and mysteries, horror kindle unlimited, thriller kindle book, supernatural thriller
Publisher: Jason Brant
Published: 2014-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

16 – Red is the New Black

Two dingy doors were at the top of the stairs. One was right in front of the last step, the other at the end of a dark hallway. Each had rusty numbers that had once been bronze.

The screaming from the pharmacy had stopped a few minutes before. It didn’t sound like the ending had been pleasant. It took all the willpower I could muster to keep from going over there and doing anything I could to help.

Standing around while people were tortured wasn’t in my nature.

Nami walked in front of me, holding her cell phone out, using the flash on the back as a makeshift flashlight. She continued to ramble on, though I could see the way the light wavered in her hand. She was scared shitless, just like me.

“Who would live in a dump like this?” Nami asked.

“There’s not a lot of money around here.” Grunting, I shifted the sheriff’s weight on my shoulder. I had carried him up the flight of stairs like a fireman and my joint was paying the price. “A place like this probably costs a hundred or two a month. You make do when you don’t have cash.”

“I think I caught syphilis just walking in here.” Nami shined the light down the hall to the other door. “Which one do you want to try?”

“The last one.” I stood at the top of the stairs for a few moments while Nami walked down the hall. “It might have a window we can see the street from.”

My knees shook.

Cramps racked my quads.

Getting Adams up a single flight had done me in.

Nami tried the doorknob, and it twisted open. “Well, that was easy.”

“Not exactly a lot of crime in town. Most people don’t lock their doors around here.”

Light spilled into the hallway from the apartment. At least it wouldn’t be like hiding in a cave in there. Nami manipulated the screen on her phone and shut off the light.

I trudged my way down the hall, grunting and moaning the entire way. Squeezing through the door with an old man on my shoulder took a little finagling, but I managed.

The apartment wasn’t very wide, but it was sufficiently long. The door opened into the living room, which stretched along the side of the building, narrowing into another hall with three doors branching off. An open doorway led to a kitchen on the left.

The living room had a brown couch with tears in the fabric, a coffee table that appeared to be covered in a stained sheet, and an old tube TV sitting against the far wall.

“What a shit hole. You should feel right at home since you hired the same interior designer.” Nami stepped over to the television. “I think dinosaurs roamed the earth when this was made.”

“Move your scrawny ass out of the way so I can put this guy down. He’s killing my shoulder.”

Nami flattened herself against the wall. “Stop being a puss. He’s an old man—how much can he

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