The Country Club by Tim Miller Read Free Book Online

it’s true. The people you see here running it, they are just workers like the rest of us. Not sure how guys like Dominic or the security assholes ended up here. But there is a whole network behind the scenes keeping this place going.”
         Caleb looked down at his cart, but he wasn’t looking a t its contents. It was starting to sink it just what he was in for. His life as he knew it was over. No more parties. No more girlfriend, at least not anytime soon.
         “Can you make phone calls here?” Caleb asked.
         “Only if they approve it, which I doubt they will for you anytime soon. You’ll be fine. Eventually the body parts don’t bother you. It just looks like meat after a while. Do your job and don’t cause trouble, and do not ever try to escape.”
         “What will they do?”
         “A few years after I started, one worker they had just let move out decided not to show up. The next day when I came in, his head was mounted on a spike by the front door. I’m guessing as a warning to the rest of us.”
         “That’s fucked up ,” Caleb said.
         “It’s fucked up all right. His face was all beat up, so God knows what they did to him before cutting his head off. So my advice to you, accept your fate as much as you hate it. Do your job and be loyal to these guys, and you’ll have some semblance of a life. Trust me, there is no retirement plan. I guess when the time comes I can no longer work, that will be the end of me.”
         “I just can’t believe this.”
         “It will take a while to accept it. Trust me. It wasn’t easy watching my older and younger brothers coming and going having a grand old time while I had to go clean up their messes.”
         Dutch looked down and tossed several body parts into the incinerator as Caleb stood by amazed by the casualness of the work. Dutch disposed of some girl’s dismembered corpse as if he were tossing logs onto a campfire. He looked up at Caleb and nodded to his cart.
         “Better get to work son. There’s a lot more to do before the night is over.”
     

Chapter 11
     
         Crystal drove in silence as Sophie navigated using the map Eileen had drawn up. Joel had fallen asleep in the backseat. Crystal was start ing to feel exhausted herself. They’d been driving all night and it was starting to weigh on her.
         “How much farther?” Crystal asked.
         “Should be a few minutes. Get off the highway up here,” Sophie said.
         Crystal drove for another quarter mile and pulled off the exit ramp. Less than a mile on the access road, she took a right and followed the road as she slowed down.
         “It should be up here on the left,” Sophie said.
         After almost a mile, Crystal saw it. There was a field and a long, gravel road running through it. She pulled to the shoulder and stopped the car.
         “Looks like we’re here. What now?” Sophie said.
         Crystal took a deep breath and looked down the long road. She was sure at the end of that road was The Country Club she had been longing to discover.
         “I’m not sure. If we drive through there, the cops might stop us like Eileen said.”
         “We could walk up.”
         “That’d be obvious too. It’s all wide open field s,” Crystal said.
         Sophie sat up straight and pointed down the road.
         “Shit. Looks like it’s too late,” she said.
         Crystal turned and saw a big black SUV speeding toward them from the gravel road.
         “Shit!” Crystal said as she started the car and threw it in drive. As she accelerated, another SUV came pulling up in front of them, and blocked the road. She put it in reverse, but the first SUV had pulled in behind her. Both of them drove up and stopped against each of her bumpers.
         “What the fuck?” Crystal said.
         “What’s going on?” Joel said as he woke up from the backseat.