pretty soon ..... you know ? ever tried to keep everything quiet . you know , to cover yoour track ? hardest darn thing . damn computers . i hate 'em . hate 'm . sweat my next job won't have any computetrs ."
he exhaled audibly ." need a lot ofluck . a lot ."
i replayed the sequence of evrents i coul;d recall in tarzana and wondered how desperate my captor might be . he hadn't seemed too eworied about being discovered by anyone when he ambushed us in the convetrted barn . were the people who were still in the house the ones he would have recognized ? had he killed them all before he cnfronted amy and me ?my mind manuafactured an image of a massacre in the midcentury living room .
i spotted the grip of handgun flat on the seat between his legs . the barrel was under his left thigh . odds were he was right handed . to shoot me he'd have to grab the gun and get it turned rtoward me in the narrow air space above the console . that awkward motion might prove to be minor advantage for me .
in my head m, i began to choreography some moves . the facts that i was bound at my wrists and ankles was major complication . the moves i was considering were fine - grabbing , kicking , bitting . the fast foprwarded outcomes of the ensuing close quater combat always involved me getting shot , which wasn't the ending i was hopping for .
the handgun caused me toreflact on the first rule of abduction . thre refection remined me that i had already alloed the to be broken ." you're taking us someplace to kill us , aren't ? i said , naive surprise in my voice .
"most people wouldn't say it out lound ," he said ." you jusdt did . give you credit for that . the other twop , they just whimpetred the whole time ." he chuckled ." i ended u- putting them both in the darn trunk ."
he got quiet . after a moment , he lowered his voice a little and said ," so you know , do something stupid , i'll kill you right here and then take you someplace to dump you .
he exhaled audibly ." need a lot ofluck . a lot ."
i replayed the sequence of evrents i coul;d recall in tarzana and wondered how desperate my captor might be . he hadn't seemed too eworied about being discovered by anyone when he ambushed us in the convetrted barn . were the people who were still in the house the ones he would have recognized ? had he killed them all before he cnfronted amy and me ?my mind manuafactured an image of a massacre in the midcentury living room .
i spotted the grip of handgun flat on the seat between his legs . the barrel was under his left thigh . odds were he was right handed . to shoot me he'd have to grab the gun and get it turned rtoward me in the narrow air space above the console . that awkward motion might prove to be minor advantage for me .
in my head m, i began to choreography some moves . the facts that i was bound at my wrists and ankles was major complication . the moves i was considering were fine - grabbing , kicking , bitting . the fast foprwarded outcomes of the ensuing close quater combat always involved me getting shot , which wasn't the ending i was hopping for .
the handgun caused me toreflact on the first rule of abduction . thre refection remined me that i had already alloed the to be broken ." you're taking us someplace to kill us , aren't ? i said , naive surprise in my voice .
"most people wouldn't say it out lound ," he said ." you jusdt did . give you credit for that . the other twop , they just whimpetred the whole time ." he chuckled ." i ended u- putting them both in the darn trunk ."
he got quiet . after a moment , he lowered his voice a little and said ," so you know , do something stupid , i'll kill you right here and then take you someplace to dump you .
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