Three Worlds Collide by Gransom Hayes

Author:Gransom Hayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: supernatural thriller, suspense novel, crime fiction
Publisher: Gransom Hayes
Published: 2023-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A few years had passed since Armando drove the Knife Cartel from his village. Since then, he had been strengthening his position in the Scorpion Cartel as well as hunting down the remaining rivals. He’d heard some were passing through and found them on the outskirts of the village in a small cantina. But when he walked in, the scene inside shocked him.

His mother looked like a half-alive marionette, stoned out of her mind, eyes rolling back in her head as she was passed from man to man.

For a brief moment, the fact that he felt nothing for her disturbed him. He had no desire to save her, no desire to step in.

What good would it do?

None.

His father and his mother had chosen their path. It was not his place to step in, no matter how horrible it turned out. She had known of his father’s problems. She could have taken Armando and left him. Maybe they could have made it all the way to the border, to America. But she had chosen to stay, and in that choice, sealed her current fate. As well as his. He would never have been in that desert about to be raped if she’d been brave enough to leave his father.

He stepped to the bar and tapped a finger. A tumbler half full of tequila appeared instantly.

As he watched her grind topless on the lap of a fat man, teasing the man sitting next to him, he noticed she still retained some of the beauty from before. But her skin had lost its luster. She was skinny now, boney even, as if she had been malnourished, trading sustenance for intoxicants. It was his mother, but she was different. Her eyes were vacant as if her soul had surrendered, retreated into the recesses of her existence so that another more vapid presence could take over.

His mother caught him staring at her. Her lip curled in disgust, and she pulled a hand up to her face and wiped her mouth with the back of it, hand contorted, fingers pointing down as if locked in a seizure. She leaned over and whispered something to the fat man on whose lap she sat. His gaze snapped to focus on Armando. Fat Man tossed Armando’s mother off his lap. She landed on the floor beside him with a yelp, muttering obscenities, but stayed on the floor, swaying on her knees.

Fat Man stood, adjusted his pants, and gestured toward Armando’s mom. From across the dark room, he yelled, “You staring so much, you can have the bitch. I got her ready for you.”

Armando gave the man a disinterested look and turned back to his tequila. Fat Man became more annoyed and took two steps toward him, arms wide and gesturing back at his mother. She sat on her hips, still swaying side to side, her head drooped between her shoulders, long ragged hair hanging in front of her face. She lifted her head and offered a sick grin from behind strands of straggly hair as if inviting him.

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