The Boundary Zone by A B Keuser

Author:A B Keuser [Keuser, A B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BSP
Published: 2019-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Vinnita’s fist collided with Cable’s face for the… he couldn’t remember how many times the woman had hit him. Right hooks were beginning to blur with gut checks as Cable’s head swam. His military training had kept him conscious far longer than a normal man would have held out, but there was only so much the human body could take.

They’d bagged him and moved him as quick as they could. No one on Bad Alley thought twice about a man being shoved through the corridors with burlap over his head… no one questioned it.

Questions got you killed.

Or worse, it got burlap over yours as well and you’d share in every second of their first victim’s torture.

There had been one scuffle, and from the muffled threats shouted, it was clear Vinnita wasn’t the only one Aaron had entrusted with the task of getting their hands on him. It was beginning to look like he should have shot Aaron as ordered. The bastard wasn’t giving Cable any points for letting him live, that wasn’t like the Aaron he knew. But then… he wasn’t sure the Aaron he knew was real anymore.

When the burlap finally had been wrenched from him, Vinnita had pushed him down the last half flight of stairs to the rock-hard floor, and Cable had rolled into the fall, but too late, and now, his dislocated shoulder was only aiding in her attempts to beat him senseless.

Senseless might have been a welcome respite. Wherever Vinnita had taken him, it was cold, damp. Something was wrong with the environmentals. His mouth felt as though it filled with mold each time he sucked in a ragged breath between punches.

His hands were trussed up behind his back, bending him forward, so his face was the perfect height for a swift knee. Cable wouldn't mind the beating so much... if they were asking him some damned questions. He was used to hands-on interrogation, hell, this wasn't even the first time he'd been stripped down and strung up for one. He was only annoyed that his comm chip was somewhere unknown, possibly incinerated or crushed. Though if he went completely silent, Peezus would know where he was. Not that he was overjoyed at the prospect of his crew seeing him like this.

A quick jab to the gut, brought forth the piercing echo of a laugh, and Cable looked up through a swollen eye to see a grimy boy who couldn't have seen his fourteenth birthday yet. The boy was scrawny, his hair sticking out of a backwards lime gravball cap in tufts. If anything, Cable suspected the boy should be in a school room, learning his sums. But there he was, rubbing his knuckles as though he couldn't wait for his turn to pound some flesh. They were starting younger. He shouldn’t have been surprised. Nothing on Bad Alley should have surprised him at this point… but something always did.

His head snapped to the side as a heavily ringed pair of knuckles collided with his cheekbone.

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