Betrayed by Jordan Silver Read Free Book Online Page B

names. There
were too many variables at play here, things that had I kept a cool
head I would’ve seen didn’t add up. But now with new light shining
on this shit I could see the gaping holes.
    He was out back in his yard shirtless
puttering around with some old pieces of pipe or some shit. He was
a scraggly, pock marked douche who looked twenty years older than
the twenty four I knew him to be; the typical small-town addict. I
didn’t make a sound as I crept up on him but his survival instinct
must’ve been high because he senses me all the same. I guess in his
line of work you had to have a sixth sense.
    His first instinct on seeing me was to run
as is the way with prey when a predator came into its space. But
I’d been prepared for that. The gun I held trained on him ensured
that he didn’t move a fucking muscle. “You know who I am?”
    “Sorta, what do you want with me man? I
didn’t do anything.” His eyes shifted from side to side seeking an
escape but there was none. The fucker was twitchy as shit too,
looked like Jimmy likes to sample the merchandise.
    “I’m not interested in your meth lab; you
sold some GHB to someone in my town in the last two and a half
weeks or thereabout, who was it?”
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about man,
I don’t sell anything I’m a painter.”
    “You haven’t had a painting job in over a
year asshole” I saw his eyes widen at that bit of knowledge.
    “Yeah I did my homework. Now as it stands I’m
not interested in your shit, that’s for the cops to deal with.”
That was a fucking lie, as soon as I get what I need out of this
piece a shit I’m gonna have this place swarming with uniforms.
That’s if he didn’t fuck up and cause me to kill his ass.
    “I don’t know…”
    “Shut the fuck up, I want to know about the
GHB, who did you sell it to? And if you fuck with me on this I will
shoot so many holes in you not even your mother will recognize you.
Starting with your nuts.” I lowered the gun and pointed it at his
balls so he’d know I wasn’t fucking talking out my ass.
    His shoulders deflated and he started
scratching at his body like he had a sudden flea infestation or
some shit. He mumbled something that sounded like ‘I knew that
stupid bitch would get me in some shit.’
    “Come again?” The hair on my body was
standing at attention and my gut had gone into overdrive. It had
been a toss up the whole way here. Shaw or Brenda, I couldn’t quite
work out the dynamics in my head.
    On the one hand Shaw has been her friend
forever and there’d never been anything romantic between them.
Until this shit happened I’d never really got the feeling that he
wanted to go there, she was more like a kid sister to him. But why
would Brenda go to these lengths? What’s in it for her? It didn’t
make any sense. I’d rebuffed her a time or two and had thought that
that was the end of it. I never even told Maddy about her freakish
come-ons because they just hadn’t been that important, maybe that
was my mistake.
    I walked up on him keeping my gun trained
now at his heart. “Who?”
    “That chick with the red hair, I can’t
remember her name.”
    “Try fucker.” A hard poke in the chest with
the business end of a nine-millimeter ought to jog anybody’s
memory.
    “Brenda okay, it was Brenda. Stupid bitch.”
The last was mumbled but I heard it all the same.
    “And why did she need it did she say?”
    “No man I swear; I asked her ya know. Usually
it’s guys buying that shit but she said she needed it for something
else so I didn’t push.” I looked him in the eye for a long minute
letting the fear set in before stepping back.
    “We never had this conversation.”
    “So we’re cool, you won’t get me
involved in this shit? Whatever she did I had no part in it man I
swear.” If he only knew how close he came to losing his fucking
life just then. No part in it? He’d supplied the drug that could’ve
harmed my unborn child not to mention