Riptide by Cole Cathleen & Jensen Frank

Author:Cole, Cathleen & Jensen, Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C&J Novels LLC
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

I splashed cold water onto my face and rubbed at my eyes. Opening them, I looked into the mirror. “What the fuck have you gotten yourself into?” This wasn’t the first time I’d asked myself this since getting here. It was the first time I was this scared.

Staring at my own reflection, I watched the water slowly running down my face. I kept watching myself, waiting for some sort of explanation from the man staring back at me. No answer was coming. Time would tell whether the things I did here would rival what I’d done in the service of my country, or for my club.

Killing wasn’t the problem. Especially men like Ross. It was the invasive thoughts and memories that crept in during the dead of night that were the issue. No matter the reasons for why we did the things we did, there were still consequences. The price I would pay for my actions here would be worth it if I could rescue some of these people from this existence.

I stepped away, walked out of the bathroom and sat on my bed, untying my boots. Butcher had warned me about this. That they would have a perverse sense of justice and rules, and in some cases they might be things you would agree with. Shooting a pedophile was always an easy one. It never occurred to me that I would be in a situation where I wouldn’t be allies with a pedo killer. After all, they were protecting kids. Ethan was protecting kids. Right?

Shaking my head, I tried to make it make sense. They were fine with beating the children into submission, but anything else was grounds for what happened today. They should all be taken out back and shot just for the beatings alone, but they were right in the other ways. I blew out a breath, shoulders sagging. I hadn’t been here long enough to wrap my mind around all of this. I just hoped I didn’t end up as fucked as the rest of these people by the time I got my ass out of here.

“They killed Sherry Holden,” I whispered to myself, dropping my head down and spearing my fingers into my hair. “They were going to kill Caitlyn. He might have been protecting Molly today, but tomorrow he could kill her, kill any of them, for any reason he damn well chooses.”

Coming in here I’d figured I could pretend my way through it easily enough. That there was no way any part of this Jonestown wanna-be group could sway me. I certainly wasn’t about to see Ethan as a living God. But killing Ross was way too easy to justify, and worse, it still felt good. Felt right. That was the slippery slope I was standing on. How much of a nudge did I need to end up joining Ethan down at the bottom?

I needed to get us out of here. Only two more weeks. The longer I stayed the more I would kill my own soul in the process.

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