Order of the Black Sun Series: Books 22-24 (The Black Sun Series Boxset Book 8) by Preston William Child

Author:Preston William Child [Child, Preston William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-17T22:00:00+00:00

17

Court’s Intuition

Court could hardly breathe, but he tried to straighten his legs to get his diaphragm to open a bit. His skin burned from the cold, but it was the biting restraints that chewed into his wrists that really brought the hell. Dressed in only his underpants and socks, he shivered wildly in the darkness. Outside the wall he was tied to, his car was waiting, he thought. What a terrible thought, that freedom, that the road home, was just about twelve inches of wall away. Yet, here he was, trapped alone in the storeroom of a cheap, shitty pawnshop in Gorbals.

Pain shot through every inch of his battered body. He wondered what Sue and the children were thinking. Surely they would know by now that he had to be in trouble, that he was not just out on some underhanded spree, or so he hoped. Barely escaping with his life, he now knew that he had to keep the location of the scabbard secret. However, time was running out faster than free minutes in a whorehouse and he had to get free before Silver and his associates found out where the scabbard was. It was the only leverage he still had that kept him breathing.

On the other hand, he was perplexed and heavily concerned about the supposed picture someone had sent of the sheath. It was under the floor of his home, as far as he recalled, so the prospect of how someone else could have discovered it was the first worry. Someone was inside his home? The second jabbing panic was that said person had not only managed to obtain the sheath, but took pictures and spread it around for any police organization or cartel to find.

Court had so many questions about his own secrets. Tomorrow night the German and his minion would be back to ask him about that secret, and with him having no idea how the item was found or where it was now, he would be as good as dead. If only they would allow him to go and retrieve it, he wished, but he soon realized that such an undertaking would lead them straight to his family.

He wept bitterly in the merciless dark. “I am so fucked.”

Only a lonely streetlight peeked into the storeroom where he was crying like a child, lost and afraid for his family. A few hours before he was convinced that their struggles were over when he came to sell the items for the reward of financial freedom. Now the money that drove all his actions was the last thing he could hope for. Now, he had to be grateful that he was still sucking air. How things could go bad if he only resorted to another form of conducting his business. Had he not taken this route of deception, he would have been in his bed right now, with his family safe. Yes, he would be poor, but poor is a cheaper price than dead.

Major Johannes Rian had questioned him about the new information obtained by that wretched phone call.

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