Out of Darkness by Price Ruth

Author:Price, Ruth [Price, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Global Grafx Press
Published: 2013-06-26T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The accident had totaled the car, fracturing Carl's hip and causing a shard of metal to puncture a hole in his large bowel, the second requiring immediate surgery in order to prevent sepsis from killing him. Mike had left the nurse with instruction to have Carl call him back when he was able to use his phone. Then there was the problem of what to do about the girl.

"We should run," Mike said. "Before they let Carl out. Go West."

"I have a girlfriend. I can't leave her. Who knows what Carl will do to her?"

Mike knew exactly what Carl would do, unfortunately. "Take her with you."

"You've never seen Janine pack. Takes her the whole night for a weekend in the Poconos. No way I'm getting her to pack up her life in that same time. No way."

None of which was Mike's problem, except now that he'd made the suggestion to go to West, D knew about it and would certainly relay that information to Carl either in an attempt to bargain for his life or with the assistance of hot metal slivers under the fingernails.

"Hmm..." Mike murmured. Canada was also an option. Or maybe the Dakotas, as much as he hated the cold.

"Besides, we don't have any money."

"Hmm..."

"I mean, we could pawn that girl's ring and split the profits, but I'm sure it's a custom job, and if the cops are looking for her, which they must be, or they will when they find the body at least, they'll use that and the video from the pawn shop to track us down and then we'll be on the block for murder." D sighed.

For a second, Mike was furious. "How'd you know about the ring?"

"Oh, she tried to give it to me so I'd let her go, but you'd have to be an idiot. Everyone knows the cops track that kind of stuff."

Mike was tempted to ask D how someone with such a deep and abiding fear and respect for the law had turned to a life of crime, but that would be getting personal, and Mike didn't mix personal with business. Not unless it would get him something, preferably laid. He did have a point about the ring though. Rich people marked their stuff, and for something that special, they'd have it in every database. Even if Mike tried to sell it, even to the jewel guy he knew on fifth, it'd come up for sure. Without the money from the ring, Mike had about fifty dollars in his bank account, and maybe another ten dollars change in his couch. With that, he'd be lucky to get a bus ticket to Ohio. Panic seeping into his skin, Mike asked, "What are we going to do?"

"That's what I was asking you."

The option were pretty straightforward. Lie to Carl and die horribly when he found out or tell Carl the truth and hope enough begging would keep Carl to mercifully only beating them within inches of their lives. Mike said, "We hate to tell Carl she escaped and got herself killed.

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