The Greatest Good (Garrison Chase Thriller Book 1) by Craig N. Hooper
Author:Craig N. Hooper [Hooper, Craig N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twenty-One
âWHATâS NOT REAL?â I said. âI donât get this kid. Not at all. What reality is he unsure of?â
Mick looked out the bathroom window. âWe need to find the kid and ask him. Heâs only had a five-minute head start. He mustâve gone north out the window, otherwise we would have seen him. Iâll go on foot.â
I followed Mick out of the bathroom. âKarla and I will take the car. Weâll drive straight north for five, then grid our way back. Letâs meet back here in twenty minutes or so.â
Mick nodded and took off. Karla beat me back to the car. I jumped in and peeled out of the parking lot, only to stop a second later.
âWhatâs wrong?â Karla asked.
âI have a bad feeling about something.â
I hopped out, popped the trunk, and rummaged around. After a thorough search, I slammed the trunk and crawled back into the driverâs seat.
âHe took a gun,â Karla said. âDidnât he?â
I nodded. âYour Colt.â
âThat punk,â Karla said. âSo thatâs why he took his back pack. What is he up to?â
I jammed on the accelerator and headed north on the street directly in front of the gas station. âI donât know. All I know is the kid was acting strange when we got into this car. Iâm not imagining that, right?â
âYouâre right. He was even more fidgety than usual.â
âAnd it wasnât that hot in here, was it?â
âNo, he was clearly stressed. He wanted out of this car, using the bathroom as an excuse.â
âDonât know whatâs real anymore.â I drummed my fingers on the wheel. âStrange thing to write, isnât it?â
âSort of.â
âWhat do you mean, sort of?â
âWell, he kept asking Mick if he was âreallyâ trying to kill him.â
âTrue, the kid was having a hard time with reality.â
âWhy would he think none of this was real, though? Thatâs what I donât get.â
I nodded. âWhat I donât get is if the kid had finally started to grasp the reality of his situation, why would he leave us? Weâre trying to protect him. Does he think the Colt is going to protect him better than us?â
Karla eyed me. âThereâs more to his story than heâs letting on.â
âAbsolutely. We have to find him.â
âWe will.â
âAnother odd thing; he left his laptop in the trunk.â
Karla scratched her head. âThat is weird.â
I nodded. âI have no idea what Stanley Tuchek is up to.â
I drove north for another two minutes, then turned and headed east for a couple of minutes. After that, I headed south until the next cross street. I turned right onto that street and worked my way west for a few minutes, then headed south and turned east. I followed that same pattern and worked back toward the gas station. Karla and I didnât talk. We kept glued to our respective side windows. It took twenty-three minutes to arrive back at the Chevron.
When I pulled in and parked, I turned to Karla. âHeâs gone.â
âLittle jerk,â she said.
âMaybe Mick tracked him down.â
âNo such luck.â Karla pointed past me, toward the station.
Mick trotted out of the bathroom and headed our way.
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