Phoenix: A Hunter Novel by J. V. Speyer

Author:J. V. Speyer [Speyer, J. V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781735515656
Published: 2021-02-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Luis checked his phone. He still didn’t have a signal, and the screen was cracked thanks to its unceremonious tumble to the ground. Still, he could see by the face that it was 2:45 in the morning. He had no idea what time he’d been brought in, and no clue what schedule Hyena Lady was operating under.

The pain in his leg was agony in layers, like an onion or a gift-wrapped present padded by tissue paper. The crutches helped, but they were ancient, wooden, and not adjustable. Hyena Lady hadn’t shot him with the intention of killing him. She’d shot him with the intention of immobilizing him, and so far, it was working.

Sticking those crutches into the ribs she’d bruised wasn’t a picnic either, but he could ignore that.

“We need a plan.” He looked around at his ghostly companions, who stared back at him.

“Yer friends are working to find ye. Ye know that.” Lightfoot glanced at the door.

“It’s true.” A part of Luis, the part that still spoke with his father’s voice, had its doubts about all of that. He knew Donovan would be beside himself with worry though. Donovan wouldn’t just let him rot down here.

He ground his teeth and edged toward the door. The first step made the whole room swim, like when the controls on a television went haywire. He couldn’t afford to pass out. He had one more shot at getting away.

“They’re looking for me, but Hyena Lady is here. She’s here, she’s got my gun, and she’s likely to take me out when she sees them coming. She knows where I am. Even if you go back to Donovan right now and tell him exactly where I am, it will take him time to get here. He’ll have to marshal reinforcements, and they’ll be pretty obvious even if they come up with sirens off. They’d need lights to see.

“Knowing she’s caught, trapped, she’d shoot me on general principle. She’s not getting her guy back, and if she’s involved with Santo Gelens, she’s not exactly concerned with the sanctity of human life, you know what I mean?”

“Bah.” Lightfoot waved a hand. “That doesn’t make her daft enough to slay a lawman in cold blood. That’s something that would get her hanged for sure.”

Luis managed a grimace. He’d been trying for a grin, but a grimace was all he could get. “We go for lethal injection these days. And, yeah, kidnapping and murdering a federal agent usually does get a person a date with a needle, not that I approve of stuff like that. But here’s the thing. She knows all the ways in and out of here. I doubt Donovan, his state police buddies, or even Kevin know those.

“Right now, I’m the only living person who can get my ass out of this.”

Mike’s face had grown pinched, at least as pinched as a mostly skeletal face could get. He reached out and put a hand on Luis’ arm. “I’m glad you made that little rider, Gabe.

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