Redemption: by Jordan Will

Author:Jordan, Will [Jordan, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Adventure, Mystery, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781448134137
Amazon: 1448134137
Goodreads: 17308754
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Published: 2012-06-21T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41

‘I DON’T KNOW what the fuck happened,’ Marshall Davis groaned, his normally deep voice rendered thin and nasal by the splints in his broken nose. ‘One minute I was at the gas station minding my own business, the next … I was getting the shit knocked out of me.’

That didn’t look like an easy task. Davis was a big man, tall and broad shouldered, with big square hands calloused from hard labour. According to his file he was a construction worker, twenty-eight years old, with a previous history of violent encounters, mostly bar-room brawls. A strong man in his prime, used to handling himself in a fight, now laid up in a hospital bed.

His face was a bruised and swollen mess, cut in places, with massive discolouration spreading out from his shattered nose. His right arm was in a plaster cast, the wrist snapped like a twig, while his ribs were heavily bandaged up.

‘Can you describe the man who did this to you?’ Dietrich asked. It was late, and they’d had to fight with the doctors to be allowed in, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer. He’d spent a long and uncomfortable hour in an Air Force chopper just to get here tonight.

‘Man? It wasn’t no man who did this,’ Davis corrected him. ‘It was that crazy bitch he had with him.’

Dietrich could feel Frost’s eyes on him. She’d had her own encounter with Anya, and harboured no love for the woman. ‘Tell us what happened,’ she prompted.

Davis clenched his jaw for a moment, clearly uncomfortable. ‘We’d just stopped to fill up and we saw her standing at the pump next to us.’

‘What did she look like?’

‘Tall, blonde hair. Good-looking, I guess. She spoke with a foreign accent, maybe Russian or something. I don’t know.’ He shook his head, as if such things were a mystery to him.

Dietrich wondered if the stupid bastard had ever been outside Virginia.

‘Anyway, we tried to talk to her, real friendly like, and she just ignored us. Made me think maybe she had something to hide, so I tried to approach her, then she just snapped. Went crazy, broke my wrist and my nose. My buddy Hooper tried to help me out, and she did the same to him. Crazy bitch could have killed us both.’

That certainly sounded like the Anya he knew. The more he learned about her, the more he relished the thought of taking her down.

‘And you didn’t do anything to provoke her?’ Keegan asked, dubious.

Davis glared at the older man. ‘If making conversation is provoking someone, arrest me now.’

Dietrich was keen to keep the conversation on track. ‘What happened after that? Do you remember?’

He shook his head. ‘I couldn’t see real good, but I remember shouting. The other guy came out and told her to get in the car. He had an accent too – English, I think. She must have listened to him though, ’cause a few seconds later they tore ass out of there. That was the last I saw of ’em.

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