Vendetta: Prequel Novella (The Xander King Series) by Bradley Wright

Author:Bradley Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

Clarity in the Chaos

Xander gave his surroundings another quick glance; then he stood. He held out a finger to Sam. Others would have needed an explanation, but he knew Sam would understand immediately that he was sensing something was off and to wait in the shadows just in case. As he walked around the mostly empty bookshelves, he saw that Sam was right: it was Allison. She was sitting in a folding chair in the middle of an open space in the room. Looking at her phone. Her phone?

“Allison?” Xander called to her as he walked toward her.

The look on Allison’s face as her head shot up and she saw Xander coming toward her wasn’t the look he had been expecting. In fact, it was the exact opposite. He had assumed there would be elation, or at least relief. Instead, she was shocked.

“Xander, how—” She stopped. She was genuinely at a loss for words. It was almost as if he was the last person on earth she expected to see. But she had called him. She knew he would come for her. Yet her face read differently. Xander’s hair on the back of his neck stood on end, and he froze in his tracks.

Something wasn’t right.

Allison tried to recover. She shot to her feet and ran toward him, arms out, ready to embrace him. “Xander! You really came for me!” But she wasn’t even constrained. No sign of ropes around her limbs or duct tape over her mouth. It was as if she wasn’t being held against her will at all.

Xander caught both of her outstretched arms by the wrist, turned her around, clasped them together behind her back and held her in place.

“Allison, tell me what the hell is going on, right now.”

She wriggled in attempt to get away, but Xander held firm. “Xander, what are you doing? You’re hurting me.”

“Tell me what is going on right now, Allison. I’ve been doing this a long time. I’ve rescued my fair share of kidnap victims, and I can tell you beyond a shadow of doubt that not one of them were playing on their iPhone when I found them. Especially when they didn’t have their phone when they called me just a few minutes ago. Tell me what is really going on or I’m going to walk you upstairs right now and hand you over to the police.”

She was silent for a moment; then her squirming stopped. “Okay, okay. Just let me go and I’ll explain.”

Xander did as she asked. When Allison turned around, Xander saw her familiar face in the dim yellow light, but something was different. He had seen that look in people’s eyes before, just before they turned on him. She reached for something in the back of her black jeans, but her face turned to shock again when she found nothing.

“Looking for this?” he asked her, her mini pistol in his hand. He had felt it in the waistband of her jeans when he locked her wrists together behind her back.

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