Ted Dekker by Burn

Author:Burn [Burn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 2010-12-16T06:00:00+00:00

36

Sanso knew by the tattoo on the left bicep—a dagger plunged into a stack of thousand-dollar bills—that the orderly who delivered his evening meal was no orderly at all. The sweat beading the man’s upper lip and the effort he made not to look into Sanso’s eyes confirmed it: he was a low-ranking felon in the Sanso empire, a plebe of a criminal kind, an expendable, untraceable member of the family who could make a risky delivery and be killed if necessary to cover a botched job.

Sanso had been expecting him.

The delivery boy put a covered melamine plate on Sanso’s bed table and rolled the meal within Sanso’s reach. He wiped the back of his hand across his perspiring brow.

“Took long enough,” Sanso complained. He’d ask later why the delivery had taken two more days than it should have, if all had gone according prelaid plans.

“Chef's apologies,” the man mumbled. “The first batch of potatoes was ruined.” He backed away from the bed and turned to rush from the room, his foot snagging the chair Janeal Mikkado had sat in. At least the oaf didn’t fall.

Janeal, Janeal. She understood so little, namely, that Sanso’s driving desire was not for Robert, who wasn’t worth Sanso’s time, but for her. He had known she would come to him. She had not disappointed.

Sanso lifted the plate cover, still happy to understand that he knew her so well. Gray green beans, a leathery Salisbury steak, a generous mound of leaden mashed potatoes. Jell-O. He had waited these many years for her to grow into her true self, and though he would never have made his own arrest the provocation for her to return, that had worked out nicely enough in the end. The better job he did of convincing her that Robert was his target, the more quickly she would cave to Sanso’s will.

To his plan for Janeal Mikkado’s life.

His plan to have her completely—not by force, but because she surrendered willingly. She would betray Robert to save her own skin, as easily as she had given him her father and her friend. Then her transformation would be complete.

This was a worthy pursuit.

He lifted the flimsy metal spoon and poked it into the large helping of potatoes. The spoon slipped sideways off of an invisible object. Sanso scooped it out. A syringe wrapped in plastic, and an unlabeled glass bottle. He unwrapped the mess and withdrew the capped syringe, slipping it under the sheets at his side. Then he lifted the bottle, which appeared to contain water but should, if Callista had done her work, contain enough carfentanil to bring down a gorilla in a matter of minutes.

And a man in a matter of seconds. With a potency eight thousand times greater than heroin, it would be quite a trip.

He tucked the bottle next to the syringe and ate the rest of his meal.

A different orderly cleared the uneaten food an hour later, and two hours after that the night nurse came on shift,

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