The Good Kill by Kurt Brindley

Author:Kurt Brindley [Brindley, Kurt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PROSOCHĒ
Published: 2019-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO

Killian found his father’s beloved Barracuda with its front end wrapped around the thick trunk of a resilient oak tree and both doors flung wide open. He made a panicked search around the area, thinking that maybe the women had been jettisoned from the car at impact, and was greatly relieved when he didn’t find them lying on the ground injured, or worse, even though their absence most assuredly meant that they had been abducted by their pursuers.

His first instinct was to hop back into the Demon and drive like hell to try to catch up with whoever it was who had abducted the women. But the problem was that he had no idea where to go. He hadn’t passed anyone on any of the back roads he had taken, which meant that, even if he knew which direction to head in, whoever had RJ and Toni had too much of a head start on him for him to have any hope of catching up to them. His other problem was the Cuda itself. He couldn’t just leave it stranded along the road with its bloodstained interior while he went off searching for RJ and Toni. No, he would have to get it off the road and out of sight and use the time that he was doing so to try to come up with a plan to find them.

After returning to RJ’s garage to swap out his Demon for her tow truck and returning with it to the Cuda, he had to first spend some time watching instructional videos on RJ’s phone to learn how to operate the truck’s towing gear. But because his mind was filled with a flood of disparate thoughts and choices he needed to make, he kept losing his focus on the videos. He couldn’t help thinking that he should stick with his instincts. He should go to the police, confess to his crimes, and let them, the professionals, risk their lives to track down RJ and Toni and their abductors.

But his mind quickly offered counterpoints. If he wanted to go to the police, why was he bothering to tow the Cuda back to the farm? Wasn’t it evidence that would help the police with their case? And as for professionals, wasn’t he a professional as well? Wasn’t he trained to analyze intelligence and track down hostile targets, to capture them, to kill them? Yes, it was true that he was a professional, but he wasn’t just any professional, he was a failed professional, as his last fateful mission attested to. It was one thing to risk his life, an inconsequential life he had recently attempted to end, but it was another thing to risk the life of someone he loves.

Someone he loves? Does he love RJ? Still? It doesn’t matter, he told himself admonishingly. He shouldn’t be risking the life of anyone if he was not mentally and physically capable of handling the extreme requirements of the task.

He forced his mind back from the abstract to the actual task at hand.

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