Twisted End by Tara Thomas

Author:Tara Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

“Sir?” There was no way he could met that timeline.

“Forty-five minutes. You’re here with a body. Or else you’ll become the dead body.” The Gentleman hung up, leaving Mac listening to dead air.

He had to find Janie and find her quickly.

Chapter Six

“Move, move, move, move, move,” Brent chanted over and over again. He kept his eyes cemented on the red dot on the tablet, willing it to move again. But it didn’t.

He wanted to howl, throw the tablet, and punch a tree. Either of those. He had started to hope, like he had not hoped all night, because he had watched as the dot on the laptop began to move. It wasn’t a lot, and it didn’t go far, or fast. But it was moving. He knew, knew in the depths of his heart, that Janie had gotten away.

But then he heard those two shots ring out. And as soon as they had, the red dot stopped moving. Yes, Janie had gotten away. And then he was almost certain that Mac had found her and shot her.

How did you move on when the worst-case scenario came to pass? Even more, how did you move on when you’d been part of what brought that scenario to pass? He’d known it would be a bad idea for her to go to the cookout with the stalker situation unresolved. He’d known it. And yet, they went anyway, and now Janie was dead.

How would he live without her?

He couldn’t think about that now. Now he had to find Alyssa. Surely she had heard the shots. He contemplated heading back to her car, but decided to continue on to the shed.

He checked the gun he took out of Alyssa’s duffel bag without her knowing. Loaded and ready. The next time he saw Mac, he planned to shoot him as many times as possible. He walked down the overgrown path, imagining the scene.

Unfortunately, without fail, doing so brought to mind images of Janie. He choked back a sob. “Janie.”

A twig to his right snapped. He swung around and pointed the gun in the direction the sound came from. “Come out slowly with your hands up and let me see you.”

Another twig snapped, but he still couldn’t see who or what was making the noise.”Come out now, or else I start shooting.”

He thought he heard someone speak, but the sound was so low, he couldn’t make it out. He aimed toward the ground, hoping he wouldn’t actually hit anyone, but that whoever was out there would take him seriously.

“Brent?”

He froze. It couldn’t be. It had to be his mind playing tricks on him. He shook his head. He couldn’t start imagining voices now, he had too much to do.

“Brent.”

He never thought figments of his imagination would sound so real. He squinted and looked toward where the sound came from. Out of the dark cover of trees, Janie appeared. For a second she looked at him as if he’d drift away.

“Oh my God,” she said. “It is you! Brent!”

Then neither one of them said anything.

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