Out of Time by David Silver

Author:David Silver [Silver, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-23T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26 —

When Kaya woke she found herself in a bedroom handcuffed to a bed by one wrist. She was still dressed in Jude's clothing, though there was no sign of the boots. Kaya's head ached along with her foot and her jaw and all the rest of her as well. It occurred to her how different a headache could feel from a cut or a sore muscle or a burn on the bottom of her foot, or a broken jaw for that matter. It was all pain, but the diversity of it seemed to make it worse, like different receptors in her brain and nervous system were responding to different stimuli.

She shifted her thoughts, hoping for relief. She smelled the sea air and heard the sounds of waves and sea-birds. She was near the ocean, right next to it as it turned out. She climbed out of bed and by pulling the bed with her a few feet, careful not to scrape it too loudly along the carpeted floor, she reached the glass-slatted windows on one side of the room. She was indeed overlooking the beach, with the blue Pacific stretching forever beyond. Hearing voices below, she froze, placed her head near the window, and listened.

"Yeah, they let me go," an older man was saying on the patio beneath her. "Gave me an assignment and let me go free to go do it."

"To stop us," the younger man replied. It was the voice Kaya remembered, the leader of the cult, the one who'd branded her foot, the one they called "Norm."

"They'd like that, but you know I wouldn't do that," the older man stated, "and they believe I haven't had contact. No, they're after someone else I can reel in for 'em. Somebody who deserves everything he has coming, so I don't mind."

"Is this house his?"

"I do believe so," the older man said, "though I imagine it's listed in somebody else's name."

Kaya stepped away from the window. None of that made any sense to her. Kaya studied the handcuff on her wrist. She had strong hands, rough from work, holding reins, brushing horses, throwing saddles on reluctant beasts. They were muscular hands, like a man's, but also agile like a woman's, and it was then she realized that whoever had put on the cuff had accommodated the size of her wrist but not her hand's dexterity. In a matter of seconds, by folding her palm and scrunching it tightly, Kaya slipped right out. Elated, she carefully stepped across the room to the door, listened, then tried it. It was locked. She thought about her next move. She pushed the bed back to where it was originally, being careful again not to make a sound.

She put her hand back into the handcuff and laid back down on the bed. She would wait. There was no use trying to escape then, not with the men downstairs. Maybe they'd go to sleep or go somewhere else. Perhaps they'd go out to eat, though none of the cult-members had seemed likely candidates for wining and dining.

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