I Hesitated Too Long
such a large gang of outlaws- dragged him backwards
- The doctor will see you now.
- looking furtively at me
- someone to show her love and compassion
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I hesitated too long. My chance to bolt for the helicopter disappeared when Oscar took two slinking steps closer and ran his finger along my jaw.
“I’ve never seen such a large gang of outlaws as I saw that night in Pensacola,” he murmured. “The crocodiles ate well.”
His chuckle told me how much he had enjoyed watching those men get eaten. I gulped, wishing I hadn’t let my curiosity get the better of me, wishing I was in the chopper right now, rising high above Oscar and Enzo and Alonzo. The inner workings of the sanitation union were not for the squeamish.
Enzo and Alonzo moved forward on either side of me, and I was sure they were going to pin my arms, but instead they pounced on Oscar and dragged him backwards toward the barber shop, screaming.
Enzo hissed as he passed me, “The doctor will see you now.” He was looking furtively at me as he said it and I had a sinking feeling I knew which doctor he was talking about. “She needs someone to show her love and compassion,” he went on, confirming my suspicion.
As the three of them disappeared into the crowd, Oscar’s cries were suddenly silenced. I shuddered. If there was one person in the world I wanted least to see it was Dr Minka Stiletto, but it seemed I had no choice. That line about love and compassion was the post-hypnotic suggestion she’d implanted during my last “appointment,” and it meant that I was already climbing into the helicopter and charting my flight to Ipswich.
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